A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike. The Classic Stories Edgar Allan Poe s "Ms. Found in a Bottle," Bret Harte s "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," Sherwood Anderson s "Death in the Woods," Stephen Vincent Benet s "By the Waters of Babylon" The Great Writers Melville, James, Dreiser, Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, McCullers The Little-Known Masterpieces Edith Wharton s "The Dilettante," Finley Peter Dunne s "Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of Fireman," Charles M. Flandrau s "A Dead Issue," James Reid Parker s "The Archimandrite's Niece""

A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike.

A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike.

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, 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.

F.S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of eleven short stories - all of them had been published earlier, independently-Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, the collection includes one of the most famous author's short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and other great works.

F.S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of eleven short stories — all of them had been published earlier, independently-Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, the collection includes one of the most famous author's short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and other great works.

F.S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of eleven short stories — all of them had been published earlier, independently-Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, the collection includes one of the most famous author's short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and other great works.

William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His stories are known for their surprise endings. This is collection of great stories includes "Strictly Business", "The Gold That Glittered", "Babes In The Jungle", "The Day Resurgent", "The Fifth Wheel" and many others.

William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His stories are known for their surprise endings. This is collection of great stories includes "Strictly Business", "The Gold That Glittered", "Babes In The Jungle", "The Day Resurgent", "The Fifth Wheel" and many others.

Here is Stephen Crane’s masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, together with four of his most famous short stories. Outstanding in their portrayal of violent emotion and quiet tension, these texts led the way for great American writers such as Ernest Hemingway.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. He also wrote great stories for children based on Greek myth and legend. They are incomparable retellings of themes which the Greek dramatists used in creating their immortal plays and literature.

Here is Stephen Crane’s masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, together with four of his most famous short stories. Outstanding in their portrayal of violent emotion and quiet tension, these texts led the way for great American writers such as Ernest Hemingway.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. He also wrote great stories for children based on Greek myth and legend. They are incomparable retellings of themes which the Greek dramatists used in creating their immortal plays and literature.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804—1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. He also wrote great stories for children based on Greek myth and legend. They are incomparable retellings of themes which the Greek dramatists used in creating their immortal plays and literature.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804—1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. He also wrote great stories for children based on Greek myth and legend. They are incomparable retellings of themes which the Greek dramatists used in creating their immortal plays and literature.

Features Five Great Short Stories by Chekhov, Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground, The Overcoat and Other Short Stories by Gogol, Pushkin's The Queen of Spades and Other Stories, The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories by Tolstoy, Fathers and Sons by Turgenev, and Gorky's Chelkash and Other Stories.