Designs for reading -- short stories
Contains: What is required to survive hardship and danger? Early marriage / Conrad Richter [Most dangerous game](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5278311W) / Richard Connell Is it possible to seize happiness from life? Summer of he beautiful white horse / William Saroyan Antaeus / borden Deal How does war distort human relationships? Sniper / Liam O'Flaherty Enemy / Pearl Buck Old man at the bridge / Earnest Hemingway Can man defy the laws of nature? Build a fire / Jack London Interlopers / Saki Can a man be master of his own conducts? Quality / John Galsworthy Heyday of the blood / Dorothy Canfield Fisther Secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber How does fear affect personality? Fever dream / Ray Bradbury Telltale heart / Edgar Allan Poe What price is paid for pretense? Necklace / Guy de Maupassant Cress Delahanty / Jessamyn West Unlucky winner / Max Shulman Is it necessary to suffer in order to grow? Water never hurt a man / Walter D. Edmonds Visit to grandmother / Willaim Melvin kelley Gift / John Steinbeck
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