Gates of Paradise
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First edition
Markham, Penguin Books Canada, 1985
Softcover, 219 p.

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

  
   
 
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
 
 
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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