This is an anthology for people who love story-telling.
Our one hundred classic masterpieces were selected purely for their capacity to delight, instruct and charm. In this collection, readers will encounter some of the finest writing in world literature.
We have chosen to arrange the stories thematically, dividing the anthology into ten parts as follows:
1) Characters
2) Animals
3) Epiphanies
4) Mystery and Adventure
5) Horror and Ghosts
6) Strange, Surreal and Fantastic
7) Humour, Satire and Tall Tales
8) Love
9) Summer Tales
10) Winter Tales
We hope this arrangement will encourage readers to move between the different parts of the anthology as their interest takes them, discovering as they do so, the shared sensibilities of authors remote in time and place.
Though these stories vary enormously in theme, tone and setting—from Russian snow storms, to spiritual epiphanies in Winesburg, Ohio—each of them has enthralled readers across generations; is exemplary in its attention to detail and evocation of mood; resists all simplistic and univocal interpretations, and remains as fresh and penetrating today as when it was first written.
At Elsinore Books we pride ourselves on creating beautiful e-books, and devote great attention to formatting, and ease of navigation. This book contains a cleanly-styled contents page that permits easy movement between the stories.
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The Art of the Short Story: 100 Classic Masterpieces
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Gusev — Anton Chekhov
Boule de Suif — Guy De Maupassant
Alyosha the Pot — Leo Tolstoy
Mateo Falcone — Prosper Mérimée
Little Brother — Mary E. Mann
Bartleby, The Scrivener — Herman Melville
The Lightning-Rod Man — Herman Melville
The Ambitious Guest — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Darling — Anton Chekhov
A Simple Heart — Gustave Flaubert
Part 2: Animals
Sredni Vashtar — Saki (H. H. Munro)
Kholstomer, The Story of a Horse — Leo Tolstoy
A Dark-Brown Dog — Stephen Crane
Kashtanka — Anton Chekhov
The Cat That Walked By Himself — Rudyard Kipling
The Black Cat — Edgar Allan Poe
The Fly — Katherine Mansfield
The Boar-Pig — Saki (H. H. Munro)
The Tiger Guest — Pu Songling
Jackals and Arabs — Franz Kafka
Part 3: Epiphanies
Araby — James Joyce
The Dead — James Joyce
The Strength of God — Sherwood Anderson
The Egg — Sherwood Anderson
A Death in the Desert — Willa Cather
Roman Fever — Edith Wharton
The Story of an Hour — Kate Chopin
Home Sickness — George Moore
The Madonna of the Future — Henry James
The Kiss — Anton Chekhov
Part 4: Mystery and Adventure
The Red-Headed League — Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle — Arthur Conan Doyle
The Arrow of Heaven — G. K. Chesterton
The Sign of the Broken Sword — G. K. Chesterton
The Purloined Letter — Edgar Allan Poe
The Master of Mystery — Jack London
The Problem of Cell 13 — Jacques Futrelle
The Three Strangers — Thomas Hardy
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Jury of Her Peers — Susan Glaspell
Part 5: Horror and Ghosts
The Body Snatcher — Robert Louis Stevenson
The Signal-Man — Charles Dickens
August Heat — W. F. Harvey
The Monkey’s Paw — W. W. Jacobs
“Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You my Lad” — M. R. James
The Phantom Coach — Amelia Edwards
The Horla — Guy de Maupassant
An Inhabitant of Carcosa — Ambrose Bierce
Schalken the Painter — Sheridan Le Fanu
The Cask of Amontillado — Edgar Allan Poe
Part 6: Strange, Surreal and Fantastic
Two Short Parables — Franz Kafka
The Secret Sharer — Joseph Conrad
The Country of the Blind — H. G. Wells
The Bottle Imp — Robert Louis Stevenson
Wakefield — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Nose — Nikolai Gogol
The Overcoat — Nikolai Gogol
Memoirs of a Madman — Nikolai Gogol
By the Waters of Babylon — Stephen Vincent Benét
The Statement of Randolph Carter — H. P. Lovecraft
Part 7: Humour, Satire and Tall Tales
The Cop and the Anthem — O. Henry
The Ransom of Red Chief — O. Henry
What Stumped the Blue Jays — Mark Twain
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County — Mark Twain
The Toys of Peace — Saki (H. H. Munro)
The Artful Hussar — Johann Peter Hebel
From The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen — Rudolf Erich Raspe
The Golden Honeymoon — Ring Lardner
When I Was a Witch — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Micromegas: A Philosophical History — Voltaire
Part 8: Love
Malachi’s Cove — Anthony Trollope
The Lady with the Dog — Anton Chekhov
Verotchka — Anton Chekhov
The Storm — Kate Chopin
The Horse Dealer’s Daughter — D. H. Lawrence
The Nightingale and the Rose — Oscar Wilde
The Trial of Love — Mary Shelley
Angela; An Inverted Love Story — W. S. Gilbert
How Peppa Loved Gramigna — Giovanni Verga
First Love — Ivan Turgenev
Part 9: Summer Tales
Byezhin Prairie — Ivan Turgenev
The Enchanted Bluff — Willa Cather
The Garden Party — Katherine Mansfield
A White Heron — Sarah Orne Jewett
The Rocking-Horse Winner — D. H. Lawrence
Gooseberries — Anton Chekhov
How Much Land Does a Man Need? — Leo Tolstoy
The Sheriff’s Children — Charles W. Chesnutt
The Piece of String — Guy de Maupassant
From Letters from my Windmill — Alphonse Daudet
Part 10: Winter Tales
To Build a Fire — Jack London
The Interlopers — Saki (H. H. Munro)
Misery — Anton Chekhov
Vanka — Anton Chekhov
The Open Boat — Stephen Crane
Master and Man — Leo Tolstoy
A Lodging for the Night — Robert Louis Stevenson
The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton — Charles Dickens
Old Folks’ Christmas — Ring Lardner
The Night Before Christmas — Nikolai Gogol