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’, ‘Rain, ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ 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