Fifty short stories chosen from the classic canon sit side by side here, selected for the way they have survived changes in taste. Among them are The Gift of the Magi, along with The Lady with the Dog and Mrs Packletide's Tiger.
The contributors read like a syllabus of the form: Anton Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, Katherine Mansfield, Rudyard Kipling, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Saki, O. Henry, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Kate Chopin, D. H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Bram Stoker, James Joyce, W. Somerset Maugham, Joseph Conrad and Robert Louis Stevenson, with several others alongside them. Because each story stands alone, the book can be read in any order and returned to over years.
Small details that matter:
• Fifty complete stories rather than extracts or abridgements
• Writers spanning Russia, France, Britain and America in one volume
• Widely taught titles that turn up on school and college reading lists
• Self-contained pieces short enough for a single sitting
Useful for students, teachers and general readers wanting a broad introduction to the short story. Available in English at Boipoka.
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