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Great Short Stories of the World

Great Short Stories of the World

Horror Literary Fiction Family Fiction Short Stories

Albert Camus, Максим Горький, Santha Rama Rau, Damon Runyon, Katherine Anne Porter, Colette, Corrado Alvaro, H. G. Wells, Ring Lardner, Eudora Welty, John Updike, Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad, Gabrielle Roy, Антон Павлович Чехов, Rabindranath Tagore, Nigel Balchin, Thomas Head Raddall, Machado de Assis, Nadine Gordimer, Truman Capote, Irwin Shaw, Shirley Jackson, Dorothy L. Sayers, Isak Dinesen, Hernando Tellez, James Joyce, Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes, Alberto Moravia, Robert Benchley, John Steinbeck, Lilika Nakos, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Sally Benson, Rumer Godden, F. Scott Fitzgerald, D. H. Lawrence, S. J. Perelman, John O'Hara, Reader's Digest Association, Saki, Josh Gregory, Hjalmar Söderberg, Leo Kennedy, Luigi Pirandello, Bertolt Brecht, Graham Greene, Frank O'Connor, Pearl S. Buck, Guy de Maupassat, Anatole France, Paul Horgan, Dorothy Parker, William Somerset Maugham, James Thurber, Jean Stafford, Montague Rhodes James, Doris Lessing, Katherine Mansfield, Marcel Aymé, Henry Lawson, O. Henry, Max Aub, Ernest Hemingway, Wallace Stegner, Sholem Aleichem, Oscar Wilde, Aldous Huxley, Stephen Crane, Jessamyn West

Authors: Albert Camus, Максим Горький, Santha Rama Rau, Damon Runyon, Katherine Anne Porter, Colette, Corrado Alvaro, H. G. Wells, Ring Lardner, Eudora Welty, John Updike, Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad, Gabrielle Roy, Антон Павлович Чехов, Rabindranath Tagore, Nigel Balchin, Thomas Head Raddall, Machado de Assis, Nadine Gordimer, Truman Capote, Irwin Shaw, Shirley Jackson, Dorothy L. Sayers, Isak Dinesen, Hernando Tellez, James Joyce, Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes, Alberto Moravia, Robert Benchley, John Steinbeck, Lilika Nakos, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Sally Benson, Rumer Godden, F. Scott Fitzgerald, D. H. Lawrence, S. J. Perelman, John O'Hara, Reader's Digest Association, Saki, Josh Gregory, Hjalmar Söderberg, Leo Kennedy, Luigi Pirandello, Bertolt Brecht, Graham Greene, Frank O'Connor, Pearl S. Buck, Guy de Maupassat, Anatole France, Paul Horgan, Dorothy Parker, William Somerset Maugham, James Thurber, Jean Stafford, Montague Rhodes James, Doris Lessing, Katherine Mansfield, Marcel Aymé, Henry Lawson, O. Henry, Max Aub, Ernest Hemingway, Wallace Stegner, Sholem Aleichem, Oscar Wilde, Aldous Huxley, Stephen Crane, Jessamyn West
Print type: BOOK

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The leader of the people / John Steinbeck Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham Vanka / Anton Chekhov The happy prince / Oscar Wilde The old demon / Pearl S. Buck The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen Young Archimedes / Aldous Huxley Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers Hautot and his son / Guy de Maupassat The open boat / Stephen Crane My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway A letter to God / Gregorio López y Fuentes The little Bouilloux girl / Colette The ruby / Corrado Alvaro Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer [The boarding house](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073259W/The_Boarding_House) / James Joyce The brute / Joseph Conrad A double game / Alberto Moravia Maternity / Lilika Nakos Lead her like a pigeon / Jessamyn West God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoy The walker-through-walls / Marcel Ayme [The lottery](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3171085W/Lottery) / Shirley Jackson The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm / Mark Twain The Augsburg chalk circle / Bertolt Brecht The overcoat / Sally Benson Blind MacNair / Thomas H. Raddall The procurator of Judaea / Anatole France The open window / Saki (H.H. Munro) María Concepción / Katherine A. Porter My Lord, the baby / Rabindranath Tagore The end of the party / Graham Greene Modern children / Sholom Aleichem Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald Carrion spring / Wallace Stegner Just lather, that's all / Hernando Téllez The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence The Sunday menace / Robert Benchley The Mezzotint /Montague R. James The alligators / John Updike Pelageya / Mikhail Zoshchenko Haircut / Ring Lardner The burning city / Hjalmar Söderberg Fireworks for Elspeth / Rumer Godden The old chief Mshlanga / Doris Lessing Who cares? / Santha Rama Rau Over the river and though the wood / John O'Hara Dental or mental, I say it's spinach / S.J. Perelman The drover's wife / Henry Lawson The huntsmen / Paul Horgan The guest / Albert Camus Patience / Nigel Balchin Among the paths to Eden / Truman Capote Admiral's night / Machado de Assis The bet / Anton Chekhov The man who could work miracles / H.G. Wells A country love story / Jean Stafford A worn path / Eudora Welty The outstation / W. Somerset Maugham A priest in the family / Leo Kennedy The cop and the anthem / O. Henry Marriage á la mode / Katherine Mansfield The nightingale / Maxim Gorky The launch / Max Aub The wreath / Luigi Pirandello The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw You were perfectly fine / Dorothy Parker Luzina takes a holiday / Gabrielle Roy