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.
