Is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, Poe,through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, to Hemlngway, 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 htPheint In common -- the enduring quality of writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world’s fiction.

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.

The Garden Party--Katherine Mansfield

The Three-Day Blow--Ernest Hemingway 

The Standard of Living--Dorothy Parker

The Saint--E S. Pritchett

The Other Side of the Hedge--E. M. Forster

Brooksmith-Henry James

The Juekey---Carson McCullers

The Courting of Dinah Shadd---Rudyard Kipling

The Shot--Alexander Poushkin (tratislated by T. Keane)..

Graven Image--John O’Ham

Putois---Anatole France (translated by Frederic Chapman)

Only the Dead Know Brooklyn---Thomas Welfe

A. V. Laider--Max Beerbohm

The Lottery---Shirley Jackson.

The Masque of the Red De, ath---Edgar Allan Poe

LookingBack--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

A Good Man Is Hard to Find---Flannery O’Connor

The Man of the House---Frank O’Connor

The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles---

Edmund Wilson

The Gioconda Sndle--Aldous Huxley

The Curfcw Tolls--Stephen Vincent Benet

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 UpheavalnAnton Chekhov

How Beautiful with Shoes--Wilbur Daniel Steele

A Haunted Houso--Virginia Woolf.

The Catbird Seat--James Thurber

The Schartz-Metterklume Method--“Sald"

(1-1. H. Munro)

The Death of a Bachelor--Arthur Schnitzler

The ApoState--George Milburn

The Phoenix---Sylvia Townsend Warner

That Evening Sun--William Faulkner

The Law--Robert M. Coates

The Tale--Joseph Conrad

A Girl from Red Lion, RA.--H. L. Mencken

Main Currents of American Thought--Irw/n 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 Miraeles---H. G. Wells .

The Foreigner--Francis Steegrauller

Thrawn Janet--Robert Louis Stevenson

The Chaser--John Collier

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