50 great short stories

50 great short stories

by Milton Crane

1952

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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, Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Fa'jikner, E.B. White, Saroyan and Salinger. 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 masterpiece of the world's fiction.