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50 Greatest Short Stories is a selection from the best of the world’s short fiction, bringing together writings by great masters of the genre. 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’, ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’, ‘Rain’ and ‘Mrs Packletide’s Tiger’, to name but a few.
This outstanding and wide-ranging anthology of stories 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.
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B015RI7RN2
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rupa Publications India
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 10 October 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1.9 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 600 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8129138149
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #7 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #1 in Anthologies (Kindle Store) #2 in Anthologies (Books)
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