50 Greatest Short Stories

By Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, et al.

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8129137259
• ISBN13: 9788129137258
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Rupa Publications India
• Length: 588 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.3" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 5 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 9