The World's Greatest Short Stories

An excellent selection of short stories from around the world. Some were familiar (The Yellow Wallpaper, The Garden-Party, The Lady With The Toy Dog), others were new to me and a pleasant surprise. My favorites were: The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket, The Prussian Officer, Bartleby the Scrivener, The Necklace, The Garden-Party and The Yellow Wallpaper.

The stories included in this collection are:

- Bartleby the Scrivener - Herman Melville
- The Necklace - Guy de Maupassant
- The Death of Ivan Ilych - Leo Tolstoy
- The Man Who Would Be King - Rudyard Kipling
- The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Fortune-Teller - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
- The Lady With The Toy Dog - Anton Chekhov
- How Old Timofei Died With A Song - Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Path To The Cemetery - Thomas Mann
- The Prussian Officer - DH Lawrence
- Araby - James Joyce
- Mrs Frola and Mr Ponza - Luigi Pirandello
- The Mark On The Wall - Virginia Woolf
- A Hunger Artist - Franz Kafka
- The Garden-Party - Katherine Mansfield
- The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket - Yasunari Kawabata
- A Clean, Well-Lighted Place - Ernest Hemingway
- The Sacrificial Egg - Chinua Achebe
- A & P - John Updike
- Borges And I - Jorge Luis Borges