An edition of 50 great short stories (1952)

50 great short stories

[1st ed.]
  • 0 Ratings
  • 51 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today

  • 0 Ratings
  • 51 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

Buy this book

Last edited by MARC Bot
February 13, 2020 | History
An edition of 50 great short stories (1952)

50 great short stories

[1st ed.]
  • 0 Ratings
  • 51 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

50 GREAT SHORT STORIES 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 Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Fa'jikner, E.B. White, Saroyan and Salinger. 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 masterpiece of the world's fiction.

Publish Date
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Pages
470

Buy this book

Previews available in: English

Edition Availability
Cover of: 50 great short stories
50 great short stories
1967, Bantam Books
in English
Cover of: 50 great short stories
50 great short stories
1959, Bantam books
in English
Cover of: 50 great short stories
50 great short stories
1952, Bantam Books
in English - [1st ed.]

Add another edition?

Book Details


Table of Contents

The Garden Party—Katherine Mansfield. 1
The Three-Day Blow—Ernest Hemingway. 14
The Standard of Living—Dorothy Parker. 22
The Saint—V. S. Pritchett. 27
The Other Side of the Hedge—E. M. Forster. 38
Brooksmith—Henry James. 43
The Jockey—Carson McCullers. 58
The Courting of Dinah Shadd—Rudyard Kipling. 63
The Shot—Alexander Poushkin (translated by T. Keane). 82
Graven Image—John O'Hara. 93
Putois—Anatole France (translated by Frederic Chapman). 97
Only the Dead Know Brooklyn—Thomas Wolfe. 109
A. V. Laider—Max Beerbohm. 113
The Lottery—Shirley Jackson. 130
The Masque of the Red Death—Edgar Allan Poe. 138
Looking Back—Guy de Maupassant (translated by H. N. P. Sloman). 143
The Man Higher Up—O. Henry. 148
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse—William Saroyan. 159
The Other Two—Edith Wharton. 165
Theft—Katherine Anne Porter. 182
For Esmé—With Love and Squalor—7. D. Salinger. 188
The Man of the House—Frank O'Connor. 206
The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles—Edmund Wilson. 214
The Gioconda Smile—Aldous Huxley. 224
The Curfew Tolls—Stephen Vincent Benét. 250
Father Wakes Up the Village—Clarence Day. 264
Ivy Day in the Committee Room—James Joyce. 269
The Chrysanthemums—John Steinbeck. 282
The Door—E. B. White. 292
An Upheaval—Anton Chekhov. 296
-How Beautiful with Shoes—Wilbur Daniel Steele. 302
A Haunted House—Virginia Woolf. 320
The Catbird Seat—James Thurber. 322
The Schartz-Metterklume Method—"Saki" (H. H. Munro). 330
The Death of a Bachelor—Arthur Schnitzler. 334
-The Apostate—George Milburn. 344
-The Phoenix—Sylvia Townsend Warner. 348
That Evening Sun—William Faulkner. 352
The Law—Robert M. Coates. 367
The Tale—Joseph Conrad. 371
A Girl from Red Lion, P.A.—H. L. Mencken. 386
Main Currents of American Thought—Irwin Shaw. 392
The Ghosts—Lord Dunsany. 400
The Minister's Black Veil—Nathaniel Hawthorne. 404
A String of Beads—W. Somerset Maugham. 415
The Golden Honeymoon—Ring Lardner. 421
The Man Who Could Work Miracles—H. G. Wells. 435
The Foreigner—Francis Steegmuller. 449
Thrawn Janet—Robert Louis Stevenson. 452
The Chaser—John Collier. 461
Title Index. 465
Author Index. 467

Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Series
A Bantam classic

The Physical Object

Pagination
470 p.
Number of pages
470

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22790460M
Internet Archive
50greatshortstor00cran
LCCN
52043293
Library Thing
4024560

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON
February 13, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot remove fake subjects
July 29, 2014 Edited by Jorge Reinaldo Galindo new description
February 8, 2011 Edited by EdwardBot add lending subjects
October 21, 2010 Edited by EdwardBot remove books from lending library
October 20, 2009 Created by WorkBot add works page