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Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga.

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[Quiroga's stories] are, like Poe's, full of psychological shocks and eerie effects and are bracingly, if ruthlessly, realistic. * New Yorker *

Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • The Feather Pillow (1907)
  • Sunstroke (1908)
  • The Pursued (1908)
  • The Decapitated Chicken (1909)
  • Drifting (1912)
  • A Slap in the Face (1916)
  • In the Middle of the Night (1919)
  • Juan Darién (1920)
  • The Dead Man (1920)
  • Anaconda (1921)
  • The Incense Tree Roof (1922)
  • The Son (1935)

The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories

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    A Paperback / softback by Horacio Quiroga, Margaret Sayers Peden, George D. Schade

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/05/1976
      ISBN13: 9780292715417, 978-0292715417
      ISBN10: 0292715412
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga.

      Trade Review
      [Quiroga's stories] are, like Poe's, full of psychological shocks and eerie effects and are bracingly, if ruthlessly, realistic. * New Yorker *

      Table of Contents
      • Introduction
      • The Feather Pillow (1907)
      • Sunstroke (1908)
      • The Pursued (1908)
      • The Decapitated Chicken (1909)
      • Drifting (1912)
      • A Slap in the Face (1916)
      • In the Middle of the Night (1919)
      • Juan Darién (1920)
      • The Dead Man (1920)
      • Anaconda (1921)
      • The Incense Tree Roof (1922)
      • The Son (1935)

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