The World's Greatest Short Stories

Wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable, this outstanding collection features short stories by great nineteenth and twentieth century writers from around the world. 70 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world's finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, O'Henry, Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, Saki, Leo Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, Charles Dickens, Rabindranath Tagore, James Joyce and many more authors. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common- the enduring quality of writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world's fiction