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, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O’Connor. 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.
THE CLASSIC STORIES
Edgar Allan Poe's "MS. Found in a Bottle," Bret Harte's "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," Sherwood Anderson's "Death in the Woods," Stephen Vincent Benet's "By the Waters of Babylon"
THE GREAT WRITERS
Melville, James, Dreiser, Faulkner, Hemingway,Steinbeck, McCullers
THE LITTLE-KNOWN MASTERPIECES
Edith Wharton's "The Dilettante," Finley Peter Dunne's "Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of Firemen,"Charles M. Flandrau's "A Dead Issue," James Reid Parker's "The Archimandrite's Niece"
THE ADVENTURE OF THE GERMAN STUDENT Washington Irving
YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN Nathaniel Hawthorne
MS. FOUND IN A BOTTLE Edgar Allan Poe
THE FIDDLER Herman Melville
WHAT WAS IT? Fitz-James O'Brien
LUCK MarkTwain
THE OUTCASTSOF POKER FLAT Francis Bret Harte
THE DAMNED THING Ambrose Bieroe
THE TWO FACES Henry James
A NEW ENGLAND NUN Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
THE COURTING OF SISTER WISBY Sarah Orne Jewitt
THE DILETTANTE Edith Wharton
MASTERS OFARTS O. Henry
EFFIE WHITTLESY George Ade
MR. DOOLEY ON THE POPULARITY OF FIREMEN Finley Peter Dunne
THE BRIDE COMES TO YELLOW SKY Stephen Crane
A DEAD ISSUE Charles M. Flandrau
THE LOST PHOEBE Theodore Dreiser
FATHER IS FIRM WITH HIS AILMENTS Clarence Day
DEATH IN THE WOODS Sherwood Anderson
TO BUILDA FIRE Jack London
THE USE OF FORCE William Carlos Williams
OLD FOLKS' CHRISTMAS Ring W. Lardner
SILENT SNOW, SECRET SNOW Conrad Aiken
BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON Stephen Vincent Benet
SOLDIERS OF THE REPUBLIC Dorothy Parker
MR. PREBLE GETS RID OF HIS WIFE James Thnrber
CLUNEY MC FARRAR'S HARDTACK John McNulty
THE.DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT Robert M. Coates
THE OLD PEOPLE William Faulkner
GRAPES FOR MONSIEUR CAPE Ludwig Bemelmans
A MAN OF THE WORLD Ernest Hamingway
THE HOUR OF LETDOWN E.B. White
THE RESTING PLACE Oliver La Farge
THE TOUCH OF NUTMEG MAKES IT John Collier
THE HARNESS John Steinbeck
FRIEND OF THE FAMILY Kay Boyle
THE RUMOR Erskine Caldwell
THERE WAS A YOUNG LADY OF PERTH William Saroyan
THE DOWNFALL OF FASCISM IN BLACK ANKLE COUNTY Joseph Mitchell
THE FRENCH SCARECROW William Maxwell
THE BLUE-WINGED TEAL Wallace Stegner
THE ARCHIMANDRITE'S NIECE James Reid Parker
A MOTHER'S TALE James Agee
THE NATIONAL PASTIME John Cheever
THE GIRLS IN THEIR SUMMER DRESSES Irwin Shaw
THE DEATH OF SHORTY Richard P. Bissell
GRANDMA AND THE HINDU MONK Seymour Freedgood
MADAME ZILENSKY AND THE KING OF FINLAND Carson McCullers
THE LUCID EYE IN SILVER TOWN John Updike
Copyright Notices and Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography