Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION: World World Vast World of the Brazilian Short Story -- PART I -- MACHADO DE ASSIS (1839-1908) -- The Siamese Academies -- The Fortune-Teller -- Life -- The Nurse -- The Secret Heart -- A Woman's Arms -- Dona Paula -- Father versus Mother -- Wallow, Swine! -- JOSÉ VERÍSSIMO (1857-1916) -- Returning from Rubber Gathering -- EMÍLIA MONCORVA BANDEIRA DE MELLO (PSEUD. CARMEN DOLORES) (1852-1910) -- PAULO BARRETO (JOÃO PAULO EMÍLIO CRISTÓVÃO DOS SANTOS COELHO BARRETO -- PSEUD. JOÃO DO RIO) (1881-1921) -- An Episode in a Hotel -- LIMA BARRETO (1881-1922) -- MONTEIRO LOBATO (1882-1948) -- PART II -- MÁRIO DE ANDRADE (1893-1945) -- It Can Hurt Plenty -- The Christmas Turkey -- ANÍBAL MACHADO (1895-1964) -- The First Corpse -- ALCÂNTARA MACHADO (1901-1935) -- Gaetaninho -- JOÃO ALPHONSUS (1901-1944) -- BRENO ACCIOLY (1922-1966) -- GRACILIANO RAMOS (1892-1953) -- The Thief -- Whale -- JORGE AMADO (1912-2001) -- RACHEL DE QUEIROZ (1910-2003) -- Metonymy, or The Husband's Revenge (Drama in Three Scenes) -- MARQUÊS REBELO (1907-1973) -- ÉRICO VERÍSSIMO (1905-1975) -- Fandango: The Life and Death of a Gaúcho -- The Guerrilla -- The House of the Melancholy Angel -- PART III -- CLARICE LISPECTOR (1920-1977) -- The Buffalo -- The Chicken -- The Smallest Woman in the World -- The Breaking of the Bread -- The Fifth Story -- Miss Algrave -- The Body -- Plaza Mauá -- Beauty and the Beast, or, The Wound Too Great -- JOÃO GUIMARÃES ROSA (1908-1967) -- The Girl from Beyond -- Much Ado -- Sorôco, His Mother, His Daughter -- The Third Bank of the River -- Treetops -- Those Lopes -- The Jaguar -- OSMAN LINS (1924-1978) -- Easter Sunday -- DALTON TREVISAN (B. 1925) -- The Vampire of Curitiba -- PAULO EMÍLIO SALLES GOMES (1916-1977) -- CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE (1902-1987).

PART IV -- NÉLIDA PIÑÓN (B. 1936) -- Big-Bellied Cow -- Brief Flower -- LYGIA FAGUNDES TELLES (B. 1923) -- MURILO RUBIÃO (1916-1981) -- J. J. VEIGA (1915-1999) -- MOACYR SCLIAR (B. 1937) -- The Last Poor Man -- AUTRAN DOURADO (B. 1926) -- ORÍGENES LESSA (1903-1986) -- RUBEM FONSECA (B. 1925) -- CARLOS HEITOR CONY (B. 1926) -- SAMUEL RAWET (1929-1984) -- HILDA HILST (1930-2004) -- VICTOR GIUDICE (1934-1997) -- EDLA VAN STEEN (B. 1936) -- CAIO FERNANDO ABREU (1948-1996) -- MILTON HATOUM (B. 1952) -- The Truth Is a Seven-Headed Animal -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.