The World of the Short Story (Hardcover)

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The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection is a truly remarkable collection of short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight, First published in 1986.

Clifton Fadiman compiled these 62 of the world’s best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? “Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit.” Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O’Faolain, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James Thurber.