The World's Greatest Short Stories (9780486447162)

Wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable, this outstanding collection features short stories by great 19- and 20th-century writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe.
Included are Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," in which two waiters and a lonely customer in a Spanish cafe confront the concept of nothingness; "A & P," John Updike's most anthologized story and one of his most popular; "Borges and I," typical Jorge Luis Borges -- imaginative, philosophical, and mysterious; as well as short masterpieces by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Herman Melville, Thomas Mann, Guy de Maupassant, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, D. H. Lawrence, and ten other great writers.
Prime examples of the classic short story, these enduring literary treasures will be invaluable to students and teachers as well as to anyone who appreciates the finely turned tale.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 236 pages
• Dimensions 135 x 213 x 17mm | 204g
• Publication date 28 Apr 2006
• Publisher Dover Publications Inc.
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note 0
• ISBN10 0486447162
• ISBN13 9780486447162
• Bestsellers rank 80,263

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