Description
50 Greatest Short Stories is a selection from the best of the world’s short fiction, bringing together writings by great masters of the genre. Carefully picked for their timeless quality, readers are sure to be delighted by the inclusion of such favourites as ‘The Gift of the Magi’, ‘The Lady with the Dog’, ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’, ‘Rain’ and ‘Mrs Packletide’s Tiger’, to name but a few.
This outstanding and wide-ranging anthology of stories is a collector’s item, designed for readers to refresh their acquaintance with some of the world’s finest writing and for newer readers to be introduced to it.
Anton Chekov, Charles Dickens, Katherine Mansfield, Guy de Maupassant, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H. Rider Haggard, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, W.W. Jacobs, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Saki, Jerome K. Jerome, H.G. Wells, Kate Chopin, Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Frank Stockton, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen Leacock, James Joyce, Bram Stoker, Joseph Conrad, M. R. James, W. Somerset Maugham, R. L. Stevenson.
ASIN : B015RI7RN2
Publisher : Rupa Publications India
Accessibility : Learn more
Publication date : 10 October 2015
Language : English
File size : 1.9 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 600 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-8129138149
Page Flip : Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #4 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #1 in Anthologies (Books) #2 in Anthologies (Kindle Store)
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GEDILA GANESH –
Great read with some iconic stories.
Great read, i specially loved the story about a couple who are busy in planning thingss before checking the complete numbe.The couples miss the lottey by a single digit.
Ranjit Kulkarni –
Collector item
For lovers of clasic literary short stories, this book is like a collector’s item, containing masterpiece after masterpiece collated together in one package. It’s a long book and takes a while to complete, but well worth the finish. Treasure it.
K –
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Manoj –
Fair deal
Stories are great but paper and print quality is ok ok
Talluri Murali –
Best book
Super
Kindle Customer –
Excellent short stories
The depiction of the life during the preceding centuries made the book interesting. All great authors in one place is amazing.
HARESH P. –
A great read. The Book is a compilation of short stories of famous author like ruyard Kipling etc
Love the stories like the lottery ticket by Anton chekov and many more in this book.Some my favorite are missing like the umbrella man but overall a good read.
SK Marifur Rahaman –
Nice Collection
Paper Quality is good too
majda0987 –
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Jerry Barnett II –
Enjoyed each of the stories, most of them for additional times. Very good collection and anyone that is a fan of short stories will greatly appreciate this book.
Randolph Rossi –
A very diverse and very entertaining collection of short stories that were written by some very famous authors and some by not so famous authors.
Frank –
Really am enjoying the short stories. Of course “50 Greatest” is very subjective. Most/many of these are classics, written at least 50 years ago and many written well over 100 year.”s ago. So a better title would be “50 Greatest Short Stories from the 19th Century
Alam –
The omnibus has several stories of various genres and each is better than the other. I highly recommend the book.