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Chronicles of Revenge

An anthology of eighteen powerful stories with the tantalizing theme of revenge, by such writers as Isak Dinesen, Nadine Gordimer, William Faulkner, James Purdy, and William Trevor, whose obsessed, diabolic characters commit mischief, mayhem and murder against real – or imagined – injustices

First Edition

Markham, Penguin Books Canada, 1985
Softcover, 219 p.

Introduction by Alberto Manguel
Isodoro Blaisten and Edmundo Valdés translated by Alberto Manguel

9780140077124

  • Introduction  
  • LORD DUNSANY: The Pirate of the Round Pond
  • WILLIAM FAULKNER: A Bear Hunt
  • SAKI: Sredni Vashtar
  • HEINRICH VON KLEIST: The Foundling
  • FREDERICK FORSYTH: There Are No Snakes in Ireland
  • KEN MITCHELL: The Great Electrical Revolution
  • E. L. DOCTOROW: Willi
  • BRAM STOKER: The Squaw
  • ISIDORO BLAISTEN: Uncle Facundo
  • RUDYARD KIPLING: Dayspring Mishandled
  • EDMUNDO VALADÉS: Permission for Death Is Granted
  • WILLIAM TREVOR: Torridge
  • NADINE GORDIMER: Letter from His Father
  • JORGE LUIS BORGES: Emma Zunz
  • EDGAR ALLAN POE: Hop-Frog
  • JULES-AMEDÉE BARBEY D’AUREVILLY: A Woman’s Vengeance
  • AUGUST DERLETH: Miss Esperson
  • ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: The Isle of Voices

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