1953 Short Stories

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (stories not included). Pages: 36. Chapters: Second Variety, El Llano en llamas, It's a Good Life, The Man Who Planted Trees, And a Star to Steer Her By, Un-Man, The World Well Lost, The Variable Man, The South, A Saucer of Loneliness, The Black Stranger, Common Time, Roog, Edward the Conqueror, The King of the Elves, The Nine Billion Names of God, Paycheck, The Hungry Hercynian, The Stronger Spell, Neck, Special Delivery, Thirsty God, The Ruum, Teddy, The Murderer, For Esm - with Love and Squalor, The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind, Kid Stuff, The Wall Around the World, The Liberation of Earth, Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, The Preserving Machine, A Late Encounter with the Enemy, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, The Builder, Jupiter Five, Sun and Shadow, Galloping Foxley, The Monkey's Finger, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, The End, Nunc Dimittis, The Indefatigable Frog, Planet for Transients, The Possessed, The Infinites, The Flying Machine, Project Nightmare, The Trouble with Bubbles, Encounter in the Dawn, The Defenders, The Great C, Nobody Here But-, Three-Ten to Yuma, Star Light, Star Bright, Piper in the Woods, Impostor, Gimpel the Fool, Flies, Out in the Garden, Colony, Time is the Traitor, Everest, Soldier Boy, Sky Lift, The Curse, The Meadow. Excerpt: El Llano en llamas (translated into English as "The Burning Plain and other Stories") is a collection of short stories written in Spanish by Mexican author Juan Rulfo and first published in 1953. This collection and a novel entitled Pedro P ramo published within three years of each other in the 1950s established Rulfo's literary reputation. One review of these stories praises these fifteen tales of rural folk because they "prove Juan Rulfo to be one of the master storytellers of modern Mexico....." The reviewer also noted that Rulfo In his introduction t...