Exposure to English language American short stories and essays from Benjamin Franklin up to 1960’s writers. Includes some definitions and explanations (into Russian language) for terms in the English language stories.
Benjamin Franklin / The Sale of the Hessians
Thomas Paine / New Anecdotes of Alexander the Great
Edgar Allar Poe / Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences
Edward Everett Hale / My Double and How He Undid Me
Artemus Ward / A Romance – William Barker, the Young Patriot / A Soliloquy of a Low Thief
Orpheus C. Kerr / The Latest Improvements in Artillery
Mark Twain / Life as I Find It / The Dervish and the Offensive Stranger
Ambrose Bierce / Two Politicians / Wasted Sweets / The Party Over There
O´Henry / The City of Dreadful Night / On Behalf of the Management
John Reed / Mac-American
Sinclair Lewis / Go East, Young Man! / American in Italy. Mr Eglantine
Ring Lardner / The Maysville Minstrel
Dorothy Parker / Too Bad
Don Marquis / A Financial Deal
Robert Benchley / From Nine to Five / Whoa!
John Steinbeck / Saint Katy, The Virgin
Erskine Caldwell / The Corduroy Pants
William Faulkner / Artist at Home
Mike Quin / Zeke the Discreet / The Man They Could not Draft / The Mugity Wumpus
Mark Connely / The Guest
John Collier / Romance Lingers, Adventure Lives
Langston Hughes / Trouble With the Angels
Elwin Brooks White / The Parable of the Family Which Dwett Apart
James Thurber / The Kerb in the Sky
Frank Sullivan / No, A Thousand Times, No! / The Cliche Expert Testifies on Love
Stanley Ellin / The Blessington Method
Isaak Asimov / The Franchise / The Fun They Had
Robert Sheckley / Pilgrimage to Earth
Ann Warrren Griffith / The Captive Audience
Alfred Bester / Will You Wait?
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