Great Modern European Short Stories

By: Douglas Angus and Sylvia Angus

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Synopsis: Taken from the Introduction written by Sylvia Angus and Douglas Angus: "All in all, the stories in this collection are of an astonishing variety and range. But this is only to be expected since they cover a unique phase of cultural evolution in which Europe passes through not one but two devastating modern technological wars, as well as the emancipation of the laboring classes and of women, the violent reversion to barbarism of fascism, and an unprecedented revolution in social manners, scientific knowledge, and peacetime technology. These stories are a kind of spiritual record of this remarkable breakthrough in cultural evolution." The authors of the twenty-five stories in this collection are: Anton Chekhov, Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Isak Dinesen, Isaac Babel, Alberto Moravia, Karel Èapek, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Luigi Pirandello, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Jakov Lind, Heinz Huber, Heinrich Böll, Tommaso Landolfi, Yuri Kazakov, Alan Sillitoe, Frank O'Connor, and Mary Lavin.