My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- A coup d'état / Guy de Maupassant -- An anarchist / Joseph Conrad -- The grand inquisitor / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The infernal parliament / Saki -- How fear came / Rudyard Kipling -- The strength of the strong / Jack London -- The scapegoat / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- A mayor and his people / Theodore Dreiser -- Gedali / Isaac Babel -- The bust of the emperor / Joseph Roth -- Kings in exile / Aleksander Wat -- Eternal triangle / Frank O'Connor -- What does it matter? A morality / E.M. Forster -- Mario and the magician / Thomas Mann --Simplicio / Ignazio Silone -- A circle of friends / Vladimir Voinovich -- Shooting an elephant / George Orwell -- The imaginary Jew / John Berryman -- Theme of the traitor and the hero / Jorge Luis Borges -- Toba Tek Singh / Sadat Hasan Manto -- The gentlemen of the jungle / Jomo Kenyatta -- The martyr / Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Vengeful creditor / Chinua Achebe -- At the rendezvous of victory / Nadine Gordimer -- The diplomat / B. Traven -- And we sold the rain / Carmen Naranjo -- One of these days / Gabriel García Márquez -- The censors / Luisa Valenzuela -- The death of his excellency the ex-minister / Nawal el-Saadawi -- Direct action / Mike Thelwell -- The congressman who loved Flaubert / Ward Just -- At the anarchists' convention / John Sayles. The imaginary Jew / John Berryman -- Theme of the traitor and the hero / Jorge Luis Borges -- Toba Tek Singh / Sadat Hasan Manto -- The gentlemen of the jungle / Jomo Kenyatta -- The martyr / Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Vengeful creditor / Chinua Achebe -- At the rendezvous of victory / Nadine Gordimer -- The diplomat / B. Traven -- And we sold the rain / Carmen Naranjo -- One of these days / Gabriel García Márquez -- The censors / Luisa Valenzuela -- The death of his excellency the ex-minister / Nawal el-Saadawi -- Direct action / Mike Thelwell.
Summary:
A collection of stories about political life by such authors as George Orwell, Joseph Roth, Jack London, and Jorge Luis Borges.
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