50 Great Short Stories

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.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bantam USA
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 20 Mar. 2012
Edition ‏ : ‎ Reissue
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 592 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0553277456
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0553277456
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 272 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.64 x 2.29 x 17.35 cm
Best Sellers Rank: 36,806 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) 268 in Fiction Classics for Young Adults 320 in Fiction Anthologies (Books) 1,537 in Education & Reference Material for Young Adults
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