50 Great Short Stories Mass Market Paperback – 20 Mar. 2012

Great book

Excellent selection

Some excellent ones, some I didn't really like too much. But a great book to dip into from time to time. I haven't finished it yet though

This is an excellent collection of short stories from the past hundred years, edited by Milton Crane. It includes short stories by some of the best and most influential English, American and Continental writers, including Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, O Henry, Dorothy Parker, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anton Chekhov, and Guy de Maupassant, to name just a few. Emphasis is given on English speaking writers, but the few short stories from non English speaking writes are excellently selected and well translated.The fifty great short stories of this collection have very different themes and as they are very different, they provide an excellent understanding of the short story genre, its history, and the wide range of subjects and styles used by various writers during the past century.I have most of these stories in various individual collections in my library, but it is very convenient to have them all in one collection. I also bought this as a gift for a friend, who is just beginning to explore the wonderful world of short stories. As this collection includes some of my favorite stories, like Dorothy Parker's "The Standard of Living" and Poe's "The Masque of Red Death", the gift to my friend is also very special and personal.

I dont have the attention span for big books... good variety early 20th century tales.

Very old book that's falling apart. Won't buy again or another. Managed to get similar on line and read via Kindle

Some good stories

I'm not one for judging literature but some of the stories are a bit difficult to follow. Yet I enjoyed many of the others.