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Back MatterSource: The North American Review, Vol. 272, No. 4 (Dec., 1987)Published by: University of Northern IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25124930 .

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D U STORIES FROM THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW

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MINUTE FICTIONS

EDITED BY ROBLEY WILSON, JR. Four-Minute Fictions: 50 Short-Short Stories from The North American Review, a rich assortment of the best short-shorts from one of America's most respected literary quarterlies, edited by Robley Wilson, Jr. In an age of "minimalist" fiction, here are the most minimal of all?50 stories that range in length from 200 to 2,000 words, written by some of America's most accomplished and most promising authors.

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45 short works

from the

literary giants

of the 20th century

In 1900 Alfred Nobel instituted the prize that would honor the greatest voices in litera ture. Here is fiction from Faulkner, Hesse,

Mann, Marquez, Soyinka, Tagore, Gide, Pirandello; poetry from Yeats, Kipling, Neruda; prose from Shaw, Russell; a little known play from O'Neill, and more.

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/RENE FA. SULLY PRUDHOMME^ The Appointment

R?D YARD KIPLING Lispeth; Mandalay

SELMA LAGERL?F The Peace of God

RABINDRANATH TAGORE The Cabuliwallah

HENRIK PONTOPPIDAN Eagle's Flight

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The Rose of the World; Stream and Sun

at Glendalough; Quarrel in Old Age GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The Religion of the Future

THOMAS MANN The Infant Prodigy SINCLAIR LEWIS

A Letter From the Queen JOHN GALSWORTHY

The Consummation LUIGI PIRANDELLO

A Breath of Air EUGENE O'NEILL

He PEARL S BUCK The Good Deed

GABRIELA MISTRAL Drops of Gall;

Rodin's Thinker HERMANN HESSE Inside and Outside

ANDR? GIDE The Return of the Prodigal Son

T.S. ELIOT

Song On a Portrait

(At Graduation 1905); Spleen WILLIAM FAULKNER

Thrift BERTRAND RUSSELL

Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?

P?R LAGERKVIST The Myth of Mankind

ERNEST HEMINGWAY Three Shots; Indian Camp

ALBERT CAMUS The Renegade

BORIS PASTERNAK The Nobel Prize

IVO ANDRIC Thirst

JOHN STEINBECK The Chrysanthemums

S.YAGNON The Kerchief

SAMUEL BECKETT The Calmative

ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The Ashes of a Poet ln Yesenin Country;

Ref?ections; The Old Bucket; A Journey Along the Oka

PABLO NERUDA Gentleman Alone

ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Short Friday

GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ Eva Is Inside Her Cat JAROSLAV SIEFERT

'You Are Asking...'; Orangeade

WOLE SOYINKA i Selection from The Man Died i

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