Great short stories of the masters
by Sholem Aleichem, Honoré de Balzac, Иван Алексеевич Бунин, Антон Павлович Чехов, Daniel Defoe, Thomas De Quincey, Fiódor Dostoievski, William Faulkner, Gustave Flaubert, André Gide, Oliver Goldsmith, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Heinrich Heine, Ernest Hemingway, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Washington Irving, Henry James, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Heinrich von Kleist, Selma Lagerlöf, D. H. Lawrence, Lu Xun, Maurice Maeterlinck, Thomas Mann, Herman Melville, Martin Andersen Nexø, Luigi Pirandello, Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Anne Porter, Marcel Proust, Александр Сергеевич Пушкин, Władysław Reymont, Rainer Maria Rilke, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ignazio Silone, Robert Louis Stevenson, Italo Svevo, Rabindranath Tagore, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Mark Twain, Miguel de Unamuno, Virginia Woolf, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Vladimir Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor, Charles Neider
Collected here are forty-nine uncommon stories - with introductory notes - drawn from the world's greatest essayists, poets, novelists, playwrights, and short story writers. Selected not only for sheer inventiveness, but also for the power of great literary talent, these selections include favourites and lesser-known stories, some entirely new to anthologies, from such masters as Daniel Defoe, Nahaniel Hawthorne, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Washington Irving, James Joyce, Bernard Malamud, Ignazzio Silone, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rabindranath Tagore, and Leo Tolstoy, among others. International in scope, these stories are also rich in detail, turmoil, irrationality, passion, and poetry.
For young readers
Book data: Open Library