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title: "The World's Greatest Short Stories: Selections from Hemingway, Tolstoy, Woolf, Chekhov, Joyce, Updike and more"
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# The World's Greatest Short Stories: Selections from Hemingway, Tolstoy, Woolf, Chekhov, Joyce, Updike and more

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This outstanding collection features short stories by great nineteenth and twentieth century writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe, and other countries. Enjoy twenty short masterpieces by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Herman Melville, Thomas Mann, Guy de Maupassant, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, D. H. Lawrence, and ten other great writers from the following countries: Argentina, Brazil, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Nigeria, Russia, and the United States. An outstanding collection of 20 brilliant short stories includes the following selections: Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," in which two waiters and a lonely customer in a Spanish café confront the concept of nothingness. "A & P," John Updike's most anthologized story and one of his most popular. "Borges and I," typical Jorge Luis Borges — imaginative, philosophical, and mysterious. "The Fortune Teller," by the undisputed greatest writer in the Brazilian canon, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," a harrowing tale of a woman's descent into madness. Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe's "The Sacrificial Egg," a tale of conflict between tradition and outside beliefs. Prime examples of the classic short story, these enduring literary treasures will be invaluable to students and teachers as well as to anyone who appreciates the finely turned tale. Shop Dover for low-priced editions of the world's greatest classic fiction. You'll find classic American literature and other important works from around the world in genres from adventure, fantasy, and historical fiction to horror, mysteries, thrillers, romance, and science fiction. Enjoy short story collections, African American and Native American literature, and so much more.

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*Last updated: 2026-11-01*