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Great Short Stories of the World

  • Max Aub,
  • Frank O'Connor,
  • Albert Camus,
  • Rabindranath Tagore,
  • Alberto Moravia,
  • Jean Stafford,
  • Mikhail Zoshchenko,
  • John Updike,
  • Wallace Stegner,
  • Saki,
  • Josh Gregory,
  • Marcel Aymé,
  • Isak Dinesen,
  • Sholem Aleichem,
  • Katherine Mansfield,
  • Montague Rhodes James,
  • Shirley Jackson,
  • Santha Rama Rau,
  • Nadine Gordimer,
  • Rumer Godden,
  • Anatole France,
  • Jessamyn West,
  • Hjalmar Söderberg,
  • Damon Runyon,
  • Thomas Head Raddall,
  • S. J. Perelman,
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald,
  • Aldous Huxley,
  • Reader's Digest Association,
  • Luigi Pirandello,
  • Graham Greene,
  • Eudora Welty,
  • Dorothy Parker,
  • John Steinbeck,
  • Katherine Anne Porter,
  • Irwin Shaw,
  • Pearl S. Buck,
  • James Thurber,
  • Stephen Crane,
  • Ernest Hemingway,
  • Paul Horgan,
  • William Somerset Maugham,
  • H. G. Wells,
  • John O'Hara,
  • O. Henry,
  • Machado de Assis,
  • Bertolt Brecht,
  • Oscar Wilde,
  • Truman Capote,
  • Colette,
  • Gabrielle Roy,
  • Антон Павлович Чехов,
  • Максим Горький,
  • Henry Lawson,
  • Corrado Alvaro,
  • Doris Lessing,
  • Robert Benchley,
  • Nigel Balchin,
  • Ring Lardner,
  • James Joyce,
  • Dorothy L. Sayers,
  • Joseph Conrad,
  • D. H. Lawrence,
  • Mark Twain,
  • Sally Benson,
  • Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes,
  • Hernando Tellez,
  • Leo Kennedy,
  • Guy de Maupassat,
  • Lilika Nakos

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The leader of the people / John Steinbeck Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham Vanka / Anton Chekhov The happy prince / Oscar Wilde The old demon / Pearl S. Buck The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen Young Archimedes / Aldous Huxley Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers Hautot and his son / Guy de Maupassat The open boat / Stephen Crane My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway A letter to God / Gregorio López y Fuentes The little Bouilloux girl / Colette The ruby / Corrado Alvaro Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer The boarding house / James Joyce The brute / Joseph Conrad A double game / Alberto Moravia Maternity / Lilika Nakos Lead her like a pigeon / Jessamyn West God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoy The walker-through-walls / Marcel Ayme The lottery / Shirley Jackson The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm / Mark Twain The Augsburg chalk circle / Bertolt Brecht The overcoat / Sally Benson Blind MacNair / Thomas H. Raddall The procurator of Judaea / Anatole France The open window / Saki (H.H. Munro) María Concepción / Katherine A. Porter My Lord, the baby / Rabindranath Tagore The end of the party / Graham Greene Modern children / Sholom Aleichem Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald Carrion spring / Wallace Stegner Just lather, that's all / Hernando Téllez The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence The Sunday menace / Robert Benchley The Mezzotint /Montague R. James The alligators / John Updike Pelageya / Mikhail Zoshchenko Haircut / Ring Lardner The burning city / Hjalmar Söderberg Fireworks for Elspeth / Rumer Godden The old chief Mshlanga / Doris Lessing Who cares? / Santha Rama Rau Over the river and though the wood / John O'Hara Dental or mental, I say it's spinach / S.J. Perelman The drover's wife / Henry Lawson The huntsmen / Paul Horgan The guest / Albert Camus Patience / Nigel Balchin Among the paths to Eden / Truman Capote Admiral's night / Machado de Assis The bet / Anton Chekhov The man who could work miracles / H.G. Wells A country love story / Jean Stafford A worn path / Eudora Welty The outstation / W. Somerset Maugham A priest in the family / Leo Kennedy The cop and the anthem / O. Henry Marriage á la mode / Katherine Mansfield The nightingale / Maxim Gorky The launch / Max Aub The wreath / Luigi Pirandello The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw You were perfectly fine / Dorothy Parker Luzina takes a holiday / Gabrielle Roy

Genres

  • Short stories
  • fiction
  • Mothers and daughters
  • Horror stories
  • Rites and ceremonies
  • Manners and customs
  • Villages
  • Stoning
  • Lotteries
  • short story
  • American literature
  • black spot
  • scapegoat
  • mob mentality
  • family
  • rules
  • Nouvelles
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    About the authors

    • Max Aub

      2 Jun 1903 - 22 Jul 1972

      3.00

      1 ratings · 131 works

    • Frank O'Connor

      17 September 1903 - 10 March 1966

      3.00

      4 ratings · 143 works

    • Albert Camus

      7 November 1913 - 4 January 1960

      3.92

      324 ratings · 485 works

    • Rabindranath Tagore

      7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941

      3.86

      36 ratings · 1980 works

    • Alberto Moravia

      28 nov 1907 - 26 sep 1990

      3.55

      20 ratings · 492 works

    • Jean Stafford

      1 July 1915 - 26 March 1979

      0

      0 ratings · 31 works

    • Mikhail Zoshchenko

      1895 - 1958

      0

      0 ratings · 168 works

    • John Updike

      18 March 1932 - 27 January 2009

      3.83

      48 ratings · 1150 works

    • Wallace Stegner

      18 Feb 1909 - 13 Apr 1993

      3.85

      20 ratings · 158 works

    • Saki

      1870 - 1916

      3.90

      30 ratings · 349 works

    • Josh Gregory

      4.15

      13 ratings · 550 works

    • Marcel Aymé

      1902 - 1967

      3.75

      4 ratings · 221 works

    • Isak Dinesen

      17 April 1885 - 7 September 1962

      4.05

      19 ratings · 346 works

    • Sholem Aleichem

      5 March 1859 - 13 May 1916

      3.80

      5 ratings · 824 works

    • Katherine Mansfield

      14 October 1888 - 9 January 1923

      4.23

      13 ratings · 376 works

    • Montague Rhodes James

      1 Aug 1862 - 12 Jun 1936

      4.17

      18 ratings · 275 works

    • Shirley Jackson

      14 Dec 1916 - 8 Aug 1965

      3.99

      186 ratings · 188 works

    • Santha Rama Rau

      24 January 1923 - 21 April 2009

      3.17

      6 ratings · 37 works

    • Nadine Gordimer

      1923 - 2014

      3.57

      21 ratings · 301 works

    • Rumer Godden

      10 December 1907 - 8 November 1998

      3.94

      32 ratings · 147 works

    • Anatole France

      16 April 1844 - 12 October 1924

      4.31

      13 ratings · 957 works

    • Jessamyn West

      1902 - 1984

      2.00

      1 ratings · 34 works

    • Hjalmar Söderberg

      1869 - 1941

      3.00

      1 ratings · 54 works

    • Damon Runyon

      Oct. 4, 1880 - Dec. 10, 1946

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      0 ratings · 83 works

    • Thomas Head Raddall

      1903 - 1994

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      0 ratings · 43 works

    • S. J. Perelman

      1 February 1904 - 17 October 1979

      4.00

      1 ratings · 45 works

    • F. Scott Fitzgerald

      24 September 1896 - 21 December 1940

      3.93

      307 ratings · 1269 works

    • Aldous Huxley

      26 July 1894 - 22 November 1963

      3.97

      554 ratings · 999 works

    • Reader's Digest Association

      born 1922

      4.00

      29 ratings · 2036 works

    • Luigi Pirandello

      28 June 1867 - 10 December 1936

      4.30

      23 ratings · 1555 works

    • Graham Greene

      2 October 1904 - 3 April 1991

      3.48

      122 ratings · 937 works

    • Eudora Welty

      1909 - 2001

      3.63

      19 ratings · 157 works

    • Dorothy Parker

      22 August 1893 - 7 June 1967

      3.60

      10 ratings · 213 works

    • John Steinbeck

      27 February 1902 - 20 December 1968

      3.97

      665 ratings · 289 works

    • Katherine Anne Porter

      May 15, 1890 - September 18, 1980

      4.00

      16 ratings · 131 works

    • Irwin Shaw

      27 February 1913 - 16 May 1984

      3.82

      11 ratings · 138 works

    • Pearl S. Buck

      26 June 1892 - 6 March 1973

      4.19

      59 ratings · 300 works

    • James Thurber

      8 December 1894 - 2 November 1961

      3.96

      53 ratings · 286 works

    • Stephen Crane

      1 November 1871 - 5 June 1900

      3.78

      50 ratings · 844 works

    • Ernest Hemingway

      21 July 1899 - 2 July 1961

      3.81

      410 ratings · 1119 works

    • Paul Horgan

      1903 - 1995

      3.50

      2 ratings · 163 works

    • William Somerset Maugham

      25 January 1874 - 16 December 1965

      3.94

      85 ratings · 1289 works

    • H. G. Wells

      21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946

      3.79

      550 ratings · 8921 works

    • John O'Hara

      1905 - 1970

      3.71

      7 ratings · 178 works

    • O. Henry

      11 September 1862 - 5 June 1910

      3.95

      64 ratings · 448 works

    • Machado de Assis

      21 June 1839 - 29 September 1908

      4.10

      63 ratings · 415 works

    • Bertolt Brecht

      10 Feburary 1898 - 14 August 1956

      3.95

      42 ratings · 1415 works

    • Oscar Wilde

      16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900

      4.04

      325 ratings · 5463 works

    • Truman Capote

      30 September 1924 - 25 August 1984

      3.97

      123 ratings · 101 works

    • Colette

      28 January 1873 - 3 August 1954

      3.81

      16 ratings · 645 works

    • Gabrielle Roy

      1909 - 1983

      4.25

      4 ratings · 168 works

    • Антон Павлович Чехов

      29 January 1860 - 15 July 1904

      3.98

      252 ratings · 2350 works

    • Максим Горький

      1868 - 1936

      4.08

      25 ratings · 895 works

    • Henry Lawson

      17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922

      4.80

      5 ratings · 146 works

    • Corrado Alvaro

      1895 - 1956

      0

      0 ratings · 108 works

    • Doris Lessing

      1919 - 17 November 2013

      3.46

      48 ratings · 313 works

    • Robert Benchley

      1889 - 1945

      0

      0 ratings · 61 works

    • Nigel Balchin

      3 December 1908 - 17 May 1970

      5.00

      2 ratings · 67 works

    • Ring Lardner

      1885 - 1933

      4.50

      2 ratings · 134 works

    • James Joyce

      2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941

      3.72

      207 ratings · 678 works

    • Dorothy L. Sayers

      13 June 1893 - 17 December 1957

      3.79

      92 ratings · 402 works

    • Joseph Conrad

      3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924

      3.73

      243 ratings · 3028 works

    • D. H. Lawrence

      1885 - 1930

      3.61

      89 ratings · 3857 works

    • Mark Twain

      30 November 1835 - 21 April 1910

      3.90

      646 ratings · 7213 works

    • Sally Benson

      1897 - 1972

      4.50

      4 ratings · 17 works

    • Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes

      0

      0 ratings · 8 works

    • Hernando Tellez

      5.00

      1 ratings · 6 works

    • Leo Kennedy

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      0 ratings · 5 works

    • Guy de Maupassat

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    • Lilika Nakos

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    Editions

    • Edition cover

      Reader's Digest Association

      1974

    • Edition cover

      Second edition

      Reader's Digest Association

      1972

    • Edition cover

      Reader's Digest Association

      1978

    • Edition cover

      Readers Digest Association

      1974

    • Edition cover

      Reader's Digest Association

      1974

    • Edition cover

      Reader's Digest Association

      1974

    • Edition cover

      5th printing

      Reader's Digest Association, Reader's Digest

      1981

    • Edition cover

      [1st ed.]

      Reader's Digest Association

      1972

    • Edition cover

      [1st ed.]

      Reader's Digest Association

      1972