Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo
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Manṭo aur mizāh
Collection of the works of Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo, 1912-1955, a noted short story writer from Pakistan.
The Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947-1997
Stories and excerpts of novels from India since the country attained its independence in 1947. The subjects range from religious strife, to the assault on the senses of the many people one is surrounded by.
Selections
On contemporary Indian politics.
Bombay stories
This sometimes shocking collection of short stories about life in mid-20th-century Bombay captures the city's seedy underbelly of prostitutes, pimps and gangsters as well as the aspiring writers and actors who arrived looking for fame.
Short stories
Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving [Young Goodman Brown]( / Nathaniel Hawthorne [Fall of the House of Usher]( / Edgar Allan Poe The lightning-rod man / Herman Melville The diamond lens / Fitzjames O'Brien The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte [Damned Thing]( / Ambrose Bierce The turn of the screw / Henry James The Hiltons' holiday / Sarah Orne Jewett The gift of the Magi / O. Henry The moving finger / Edith Wharton The open boat / Stephen Crane Lou, the prophet / Willa Cather The men of Forty Mile / Jack London Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald [A rose for Emily]( William Faulkner Big two-hearted river / Ernest Hemingway Flight / John Steinbeck
