"50 Great Short Stories" is a comprehensive selection from the world'sfinest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne,Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and JamesJoyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan,and O'Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all thesestories
have one point in common-the enduring quality of the writing, whichplaces them among the masterpieces of the world's fiction.