50 great short stories / edited by Milton Crane

Includes index.

The Garden Party -Katherine Mansfield -- The Three-Day Blow -Ernest Hemingway -- The standard of living -Dorothy Parker -- The Saint -V.S Pritchett -- The other side of things -E.M Forster -- Brooksmith -Henry James -- The Jockey -Carson McCullers -- The Courting of Dinah Shadd -Rudyard Kipling -- The Shot -Alexander Poushkin ( translated by T.Keane) -- Graven Image -John O'Hara -- Putois -Anatole France (translated by Frederic Chapman ) -- Only the Dead Knows Brooklyn -Thomas Wolfe -- A.V. Laider -Max Beerbohn -- The Lottery - Shirley Jackson -- The Masque of the Red Death -Edgar Allan Poe -- Looking Back - Guy de Maupassant (translated by H.N.P Sloman) -- The Man Higher Up -O.Henry -- The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse -William Saroyan -- The other two -Edith Wharton -- Theft - Katherine Anne Porter - A good man is hard to find -Flannery O'Connor -- The Man of the house -Frank O'Connor -- The man who shot snapping turtles -Edmund Wilson -- The Gioconda Smile -Aldous Huxley -- The Curfew Tolls -Stephen Vincent Benet -- Father Wakes Up thye Village -Clarence Day -- Ivy Day in the Committee Room -James Joyce -- The Chrysanthemums -John Steinbeck -- The Door -E.B White -- An Upheaval -Anton Chekhov -- How Beautiful with shoes -Wilbur Daniele Steele -- A hauned House -Virginia Woolf -- The Catbird Seat -James Thurber -- The schartz-Metterklume Method -"Saki" (H.H. Munro) -- The Death of a Bachelor -Arthur Schnitzler -- The Apostate -George Milburn -- The Death of a Bachelor -Arthur Schnitzler -- The Apostate -George Milburn -- The Phoenix -Sylvia Townsend Warner -- The Evening Sun -William Faulkner -- The Law -Robert M. Coates -- The Tale - Joseph Conrad -- A girl from red lion ,P.A-H.L Mencken -- Main Currents of American Thought -Irwin Shaw -- The Ghost - Lord Dunsany -- The Minister's Black Veil -Nathaniel Hawthorne --A String of Beads - W.Somerset Maugham -- The Golden Honeymoon -Rign Lardner -- The Man who could work miracles -H.G Wells -- The Foreigner -Francis Steegmuller -- Thrawn Janet -Robert Louis Stevenson --The Chase -John Collier -- Title Index -- Author Index.

" 50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world's finest short fiction. The authors represented range from hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, Through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faqulkner,E.B. White, Saroyan, and OÇonnor. 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. "