50 Great Short Stories by Virginia Woolf, Edmund Wilson, Arthur Schnitzler, Robert M. Coates, Ernest Hemingway, W. Somerset Maugham, O. Henry, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Collier, Frank O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Alexander Sergeievitch Poushkin, William Saroryan, Stephen Vincent Benet, Wilbur Daniel Steele, E.B. White, Henry James, Irwin Shaw, Dorothy Parker, John O’Hara, Sylvia Townsend Warner, James Joyce, George Milburn, Harry Gideon Wells, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Milton Crane, V. S. Pritchett, Joseph Conrad, H.L. Mencken, John Steinbeck, Edgar Allan Poe, James Thurber, Francis Steegmuller, H. H. Munro, Edith Wharton, Clarence Day, Katherine Anne Porter, Max Beerbohm, Rudyard Kipling, Aldous Huxley, Guy de Maupassant, E.M. Forster, Flannery O'Connor, Anton Chekhov, Anatole France, Shirley Jackson, William Faulkner, Katherine Mansfield, Ring Lardner, Lord Dunsany, Thomas Wolfe

50 Great Short Stories

Virginia Woolf, Edmund Wilson, Arthur Schnitzler, Robert M. Coates, Ernest Hemingway, W. Somerset Maugham, O. Henry, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Collier, Frank O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Alexander Sergeievitch Poushkin, William Saroryan, Stephen Vincent Benet, Wilbur Daniel Steele, E.B. White, Henry James, Irwin Shaw, Dorothy Parker, John O’Hara, Sylvia Townsend Warner, James Joyce, George Milburn, Harry Gideon Wells, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Milton Crane, V. S. Pritchett, Joseph Conrad, H.L. Mencken, John Steinbeck, Edgar Allan Poe, James Thurber, Francis Steegmuller, H. H. Munro, Edith Wharton, Clarence Day, Katherine Anne Porter, Max Beerbohm, Rudyard Kipling, Aldous Huxley, Guy de Maupassant, E.M. Forster, Flannery O'Connor, Anton Chekhov, Anatole France, Shirley Jackson, William Faulkner, Katherine Mansfield, Ring Lardner, Lord Dunsany, Thomas Wolfe

571 pages • first pub 1952 (editions)

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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...

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Community Reviews Summary of 179 reviews

Moods

adventurous 54%
reflective 54%
challenging 45%
emotional 36%
funny 36%
mysterious 27%
sad 27%
inspiring 18%
lighthearted 18%
relaxing 18%
tense 18%
dark 9%
hopeful 9%
informative 9%

Pace

medium 57%
slow 35%
fast 7%

Plot- or character-driven?

A mix: 85% | N/A: 14%

Strong character development?

N/A: 37% | No: 37% | It's complicated: 25%

Loveable characters?

It's complicated: 50% | N/A: 37% | No: 12%

Diverse cast of characters?

N/A: 37% | It's complicated: 25% | Yes: 25% | No: 12%

Flaws of characters a main focus?

N/A: 37% | Yes: 37% | It's complicated: 25%

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