Fifty Great Short Stories
by Edith Wharton and E.M. Forster and Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson and John Steinbeck and Ernest Hemingway and Francis Steegmuller and H.G. Wells and Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Parker and Flannery O'Connor and Katherine Mansfield and Joseph Conrad and Aldous Huxley and Carson McCullers and William Faulkner and Anton Chekhov and William Saroyan and Edmund Wilson and James Joyce and Edgar Allan Poe and W. Somerset Maugham and Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rudyard Kipling and E.B. White and Irwin Shaw and Nathaniel Hawthorne and H.L. Mencken and Thomas Wolfe and Katherine Anne Porter and Saki and Guy de Maupassant and O. Henry and Lord Dunsany and V.S. Pritchett and Arthur Schnitzler and Shirley Jackson and Anatole France and James Thurber and John O'Hara and Frank O'Connor and Clarence Day Jr. and Milton Crane and John Collier and Max Beerbohm and Stephen Vincent Benét and Ring Lardner and Wilbur Daniel Steele and George Milburn and Robert M. Coates and Alexander Poushkin
50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O’Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common–the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world’s fiction.
Release Date:
August 31, 2005
