50 Greatest Short Stories

Author: Terry O'Brien (Quiz master)
Publisher: Rupa Publications India
ISBN: 9788129137258
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 588

Book Description
50 Greatest Short Stories is a selection from the best of the world's short fiction, bringing together writings by great masters of the genre. Carefully picked for their timeless quality, readers are sure to be delighted by the inclusion of such favourites as 'The Gift of the Magi', 'The Lady with the Dog', 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', 'Rain' and 'Mrs Packletide's Tiger', to name but a few. This outstanding and wide-ranging anthology of stories is a collector's item, designed for readers to refresh their acquaintance with some of the world's finest writing and for newer readers to be introduced to it. Anton Chekov, Charles Dickens, Katherine Mansfield, Guy de Maupassant, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H. Rider Haggard, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, W.W. Jacobs, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Saki, Jerome K. Jerome, H.G. Wells, Kate Chopin, Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Frank Stockton, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen Leacock, James Joyce, Bram Stoker, Joseph Conrad, M. R. James, W. Somerset Maugham, R. L. Stevenson.

Great Short Stories of the World

Author: Barrett Harper Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 1096

Book Description
177 short stories.

Great American Short Stories

Author: Paul Negri
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486421198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Featuring 19 of the finest works in the American short-story tradition, this compilation includes: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, plus stories by Hawthorne, Twain, Cather, and others.

100 World's Greatest Short Stories

Author: Prakash Book Depot
Publisher: Fingerprint! Publishing
ISBN: 9789388810548
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The short story is one of the finest forms of writing. As short as a paragraph at times, or as lengthy as a novel, short stories are widely read and immensely lauded. Some of the most exceptional writers have dabbled in this form penning beautiful, unforgettable stories. In this carefully-crafted selection, we bring to you some of the greatest writers from around the world-- the iconic storytellers from America, such as Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, the legendary Grimm brothers from Germany, to the lyrical Rabindranath Tagore from India, and the witty H H Munro from Britain. All these and many more remarkable people come together in this edition . . . and all have stories to tell. An anthology beginning with Aesop's fables-- perhaps the first stories we come across-- and ending with Virginia Woolf's gothic, thrilling ' The Haunted House', 100 World's Greatest Short Stories brings together stories short and sweet, descriptive and lengthy, and stories that can do anything-- from telling a tale to hiding its narrator, from portraying the reality to diving into pure imagination-- and are a must-read for every fiction lover."

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

Author: John Updike
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 810

Book Description
The incomparable John Updike selects the 55 finest short stories from America's bestselling anthology, published since 1915.

American Short Story Masterpieces

Author: Clarence C. Strowbridge
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486499138
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
An affordable compilation of more than a dozen of the best American short stories features tales by Hawthorne, Twain, James, Cheever, Wharton, and Cather. Contents include "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat," and "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty.

Fifty Great Short Stories

Author: Milton Crane
Publisher: Bantam Classics
ISBN: 0553277456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 594

Book Description
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.

Fifty Stories

Author: Kay Boyle
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811212069
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 644

Book Description
Boyle, 50 Stories. An eloquent testament to the possibilities of living and writing.

Fifty Famous People; A Book of Short Stories

Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387050372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Fifty Famous Stories Retold

Author: James Baldwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190

Book Description
Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin, first published in 1896, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.