A comprehensive anthology gathers classic short stories by such authors as Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, John Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, and Anton Chekhov, among other notables. Reissue. 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. The Garden Party 1(14) Katherine Mansfield The Three-Day Blow 14(8) Ernest Hemingway The Standard of Living 22(5) Dorothy Parker The Saint 27(11) V.S. Pritchett The Other Side of the Hedge 38(5) E.M. Forster Brooksmith 43(15) Henry James The Jockey 58(5) Carson McCullers The Courting of Dinah Shadd 63(19) Rudyard Kipling The Shot 82(11) Alexander Poushkin T. Keane Graven Image 93(4) John O'Hara Putois 97(12) Anatole France Frederic Chapman Only the Dead Know Brooklyn 109(4) Thomas Wolfe A.V. Laider 113(17) Max Beerbohm The Lottery 130(8) Shirley Jackson The Masque of the Red Death 138(5) Edgar Allan Poe Looking Back 143(5) Guy de Maupassant H.N.P. Sloman The Man Higher Up 148(11) O. Henry The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse 159(6) William Saroyan The Other Two 165(17) Edith Wharton Theft 182(6) Katherine Anne Porter A Good Man Is Hard to Find 188(13) Flannery O'Connor The Man of the House 201(7) Frank O'Connor The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles 208(11) Edmund Wilson The Gioconda Smile 219(25) Aldous Huxley The Curfew Tolls 244(14) Stephen Vincent Benet Father Wakes Up the Village 258(6) Clarence Day Ivy Day in the Committee Room 264(13) James Joyce The Chrysanthemums 277(9) John Steinbeck The Door 286(4) E.B. White An Upheaval 290(6) Anton Chekhov How Beautiful with Shoes 296(19) Wilbur Daniel Steele A Haunted House 315(1) Virginia Woolf The Catbird Seat 316(8) James Thurber The Schartz-Metterklume Method 324(5) ``Saki'' (H.H. Munro) The Death of a Bachelor 329(9) Arthur Schnitzler The Apostate 338(5) George Milburn The Phoenix 343(3) Sylvia Townsend Warner That Evening Sun 346(15) William Faulkner The Law 361(4) Robert M. Coates The Tale 365(15) Joseph Conrad A Girl from Red Lion, P.A. 380(6) H.L. Mencken Main Currents of American Thought 386(9) Irwin Shaw The Ghosts 395(3) Lord Dunsany The Minister's Black Veil 398(12) Nathaniel Hawthorne A String of Beads 410(5) W. Somerset Maugham The Golden Honeymoon 415(15) Ring Lardner The Man Who Could Work Miracles 430(14) H.G. Wells The Foreigner 444(3) Francis Steegmuller Thrawn Janet 447(9) Robert Louis Stevenson The Chaser 456(3) John Collier Title Index 459(2) Author Index 461