This outstanding collection features short stories by great writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe. Ranging from the 19th to the 20th centuries, writers include Poe, Chekhov, Joyce, Kafka, Faulkner, Pirandello, Mann, and other major writers of world literature. A wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable anthology.
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120 of 121 people found the following review helpful:
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A very good collection of top flight short stories,
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This review is from: The World's Greatest Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)
Neither Amazon nor Dover seem to list the actual contents of this excellent collection of stories on Amazon. You can find the Table of Contents at Dover's website.
This collection edited by James Daly includes: Herman Melville--U.S.A. Bartleby the Scrivener (1853) Guy de Maupassant--France The Necklace (1884) Leo Tolstoy--Russia The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) Rudyard Kipling--England The Man Who Would Be King (1888) Charlotte Perkins Gilman--U.S.A. The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis--Brazil The Fortune-Teller (1896) Anton Chekhov--Russia The Lady with the Toy Dog (1899) Rainer Maria Rilke--Germany How Old Timofei Died with a Song (1900) Thomas Mann--Germany The Path to the Cemetery (1901) D. H. Lawrence--England The Prussian Officer (1914) James Joyce--Ireland Araby (1914) Luigi Pirandello--Italy Mrs. Frola and Mr. Ponza, Her Son-in-Law (1917) Virginia Woolf--England The Mark on the Wall (1921) Franz Kafka--Czechoslovakia A Hunger Artist (1922) Katherine Mansfield--England The Garden-Party (1922) [Bevan Kay in a Comment correctly points out that Mansfield was from New Zealand; she live the last 14 years of her life in England, where this story was written and published.] Yasunari Kawabata--Japan The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket (1924) Ernest Hemingway--U.S.A. A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (1926) Chinua Achebe--Nigeria The Sacrificial Egg (1959) John Updike--U.S.A. A & P (1961) Jorge Luis Borges--Argentina Borges and I (1962) Excellent reading, interesting writers, well worth the price in delivering pleasure at an affordable price. Robert C. Ross 2009
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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Great value short story collection,
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This review is from: The World's Greatest Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)
Dover books are unsurpassed for economy and content - $3.50 for a collection of 20 stories from all over the world within the past two centuries. Would be a great teaching resource, as many of these stories are used in curricula for middle/high school and college. Table of contents lists author, country of origin and year written. Relatively diverse selection of authors, but also includes standard anthology fare like Hemingway and Woolf. Stories included:
Bartleby the Scrivener (1853, Melville) The Necklace (1884, de Maupassant) The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886, Tolstoy) The Man Who Would Be King (1888, Kipling) The Yellow Wallpaper (1892, C.P. Gilman) The Fortune-Teller (1896, Machado de Assis) The Lady with the Toy Dog (1899, Chekhov) How Old Timofei Died with a Song (1900, Rilke) The Path to the Cemetery (1901, Mann) The Prussian Officer (1914, D.H. Lawrence) Araby (1914, Joyce) Mrs. Frola and Mr. Ponza, Her Son-in-Law (1917, Pirandello) The Mark on the Wall (1921, Woolf) A Hunger Artist (1922, Kafka) The Garden-Party (1922, Mansfield) The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket (1924, Kawabata) A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (1926, Hemingway) The Sacrifical Egg (1959, Achebe) A & P (1961, Updike) Borges and I (1962, Borges)
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Great collection for those quick moments on a train, bus, or plane.,
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It is always worthwhile to keep a few paperback short story collections at hand to pop into a purse or carry-on bag. This collection is very good: diverse, well chosen, and memorable. These Dover Thrift Books are a great bargain as well.
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