50 Great Short Stories by Virginia Woolf, Edmund Wilson, Arthur Schnitzler, Robert M. Coates, Ernest Hemingway, W. Somerset Maugham, O. Henry, Robert Louis Stevenson, 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, James Thurber, Francis Steegmuller, John Collier, H. H. Munro, Steinbeck John, Edith Wharton, Clarence Day, Katherine Anne Porter, Max Beerbohm, Edgar Allan Pole, 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, 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, James Thurber, Francis Steegmuller, John Collier, H. H. Munro, Steinbeck John, Edith Wharton, Clarence Day, Katherine Anne Porter, Max Beerbohm, Edgar Allan Pole, 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)

fiction classics short stories adventurous lighthearted slow-paced

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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 55 reviews

Moods

adventurous 57%
reflective 42%
challenging 28%
emotional 28%
relaxing 28%
sad 28%
funny 14%
inspiring 14%
lighthearted 14%
mysterious 14%

Pace

medium 75%
slow 25%

Plot- or character-driven?

A mix: 80% | N/A: 20%

Strong character development?

N/A: 50% | No: 33% | It's complicated: 16%

Loveable characters?

N/A: 50% | It's complicated: 33% | No: 16%

Diverse cast of characters?

N/A: 50% | Yes: 33% | It's complicated: 16%

Flaws of characters a main focus?

N/A: 50% | Yes: 33% | It's complicated: 16%

Average rating

3.53

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