50 GREATEST SHORT STORIES

greatest short stories is a
selection from the best of the world’s short fiction, bringing together
writings by great masters such as anton chekov, rudyard kipling, h.g. wells,
charles dickens, virginia woolf, saki, o. henry, f. scott fitzgerald and guy de
maupassant. each story is a classic, a testimony to the skills of its creator
that make it resonate with readers even today. 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’, ‘how the
leopard got his spots’, ‘the man who could work miracles’, ‘the curious case
of benjamin button’ and ‘mrs packletide’s tiger’, to name but a few. this
outstanding and wideranging anthology of stories by great writers from
britain, america, canada and europe 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