TY - GEN AU - García Márquez,Gabriel AU - Rabassa,Gregory AU - BernsteinJ.S. TI - Collected stories SN - 9780060932688 AV - PQ 8180.17 G216c 1999 PY - 1999/// CY - New York PB - Perennial Classics N2 - "García Márquez has extraordinary strength and firmness of imagination and writes with the calmness of a man who knows exactly what wonders he can perform."?-?Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review Collected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most brilliant and enchanting short stories, presented in the chronological order of their publication in Spanish from three volumes: Eyes of a Blue Dog, Big Mama's Funeral, and The Incredible and Sad Tale of lnnocent Er?ndira and Her Heartless Grandmother. Combining mysticism, history, and humor, the stories in this collection span more than two decades, illuminating the development of Marquez's prose and exhibiting the themes of family, poverty, and death that resound throughout his fiction ER -