An edition of 50 great short stories
(1952)
50 great short stories
[1st ed.]
by Milton Crane
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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.
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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
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