Milton Crane (Editor)
50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction.
Fifty Great Short Stories
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Description
The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, 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.
Contents
The Garden Party—Katherine Mansfield
The Three-Day Blow—Ernest Hemingway
The Standard of Living—Dorothy Parker
The Saint—V.S. Pritchett
The Other Side of the Hedge—E. M. Forster
Brooksmith—Henry James
The Jockey—Carson McCullers
The Courting of Dinah Shadd—Rudyard Kipling
The Shot—Alexander Poushkin (translated by T. Keane)
Graven Image—John O’Hara
Putois—Anatole France (translated by Frederic Chapman)
Only the Dead Know Brooklyn—Thomas Wolfe
A.V. Laider—Max Beerbohm
The Lottery—Shirley Jackson
The Masque of the Red Death—Edgar Allan Poe
Looking Back—Guy de Maupassant (translated by H.N.P. Sloman)
The Man Higher Up—O. Henry
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse—William Saroyan
The Other Two—Edith Wharton
Theft—Katherine Anne Porter
For Esmé—With Love and Squalor—J.D. Salinger
The Man of the House—Frank O’Connor
The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles—Edmund Wilson
The Gioconda Smile—Aldous Huxley
The Curfew Tolls—Stephen Vincent Benét
Father Wakes Up the Village—Clarence Day
Ivy Day in the Committee Room—James Joyce
The Chrysanthemums—John Steinbeck
The Door—E. B. White
An Upheaval—Anton Chekhov
How Beautiful with Shoes—Wilbur Daniel Steele
A Haunted House—Virginia Woolf
The Catbird Seat—James Thurber
The Schartz-Metterklume Method—“Saki” (H.H. Munro)
The Death of a Bachelor—Arthur Schnitzler
The Apostate—George Milburn
The Phoenix—Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Evening Sun—William Faulkner
The Law—Robert M. Coates
The Tale—Joseph Conrad
A Girl from Red Lion, P.A.—H.L. Mencken
Main Currents of American Thought—Irwin Shaw
The Ghosts—Lord Dunsany
The Minister’s Black Veil—Nathaniel Hawthorne
A String of Beads—W. Somerset Maugham
The Golden Honeymoon—Ring Lardner
The Man Who Could Work Miracles—H.G. Wells
The Foreigner—Francis Steegmuller
Thrawn Janet—Robert Louis Stevenson
The Chaser—John Collier
Additional information
| Book Condition | Used – Good |
|---|---|
| Cover | Paperback |
| Size | 470 pages |
| Published | July 1, 1988 by Bantam |
| Genre | Fiction, Classics, Short Stories |
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