101 Great Short Stories #434784

101 Great Short Stories brings together a wide-ranging selection of classic short fiction from British, American, European, and Russian literature. The collection spans several generations of writers and encompasses mystery, horror, fantasy, romance, satire, realism, psychological fiction, and literary modernism. Among the authors represented are Daniel Defoe, Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, Prosper Mérimée, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Guy de Maupassant, Leo Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Anton Chekhov, Jack London, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Ernest Hemingway, and H. P. Lovecraft.

The anthology includes such enduring stories as “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Overcoat,” “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man,” “The Necklace,” “The Happy Prince,” “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” “The Open Boat,” “The Machine Stops,” “Eveline,” “The Judgment,” “The Mark on the Wall,” “The Garden Party,” “A Hunger Artist,” “My Old Man,” and “The Call of Cthulhu.” Together, the 101 selections offer readers an extensive journey through the development of the short story, from early works of supernatural fiction and nineteenth-century realism to the experimentation and psychological depth of twentieth-century literature.