This document provides a list of 75 short stories divided into two sections - "Classic" and "Modern". The Classic section includes short stories from authors such as Walter Scott, Thomas Hardy, Honoré de Balzac, and Ivan Turgenev. The Modern section focuses on more contemporary short stories, grouping works from women authors and men authors separately. It provides the title and author for each of the 75 short stories.
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This document provides a list of 75 short stories divided into two sections - "Classic" and "Modern". The Classic section includes short stories from authors such as Walter Scott, Thomas Hardy, Honoré de Balzac, and Ivan Turgenev. The Modern section focuses on more contemporary short stories, grouping works from women authors and men authors separately. It provides the title and author for each of the 75 short stories.
This document provides a list of 75 short stories divided into two sections - "Classic" and "Modern". The Classic section includes short stories from authors such as Walter Scott, Thomas Hardy, Honoré de Balzac, and Ivan Turgenev. The Modern section focuses on more contemporary short stories, grouping works from women authors and men authors separately. It provides the title and author for each of the 75 short stories.
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This document provides a list of 75 short stories divided into two sections - "Classic" and "Modern". The Classic section includes short stories from authors such as Walter Scott, Thomas Hardy, Honoré de Balzac, and Ivan Turgenev. The Modern section focuses on more contemporary short stories, grouping works from women authors and men authors separately. It provides the title and author for each of the 75 short stories.
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75 Great Short Stories
‘Classic’
Walter Scott Wandering Willie’s Tale
Thomas Hardy The Withered Arm
Honoré de Balzac An Incident in the Reign of Terror
Ivan Turgenev Torrents of Spring
Nathaniel Hawthorne Young Goodman Brown
Guy de Maupassant Boule de Suif
Anton Chekhov House with Mezzanine
Isaac Babel Guy de Maupassant
Edgar Allan Poe Pit & the Pendulum
Herman Melville Bartleby the Scrivener
Robert Louis Stevenson Thrawn Janet
Henry James The Figure in the Carpet
Rudyard Kipling The Gardener
James Joyce The Dead
Joseph Conrad The Secret Sharer
Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Nikolai Gogol Diary of a Madman
‘Modern’
Women
Katherine Mansfield Prelude
Elizabeth Taylor The Devastating Boys
Muriel Spark Bang Bang You’re Dead
Jean Rhys Let Then Call it Jazz
Flannery O'Connor A Good Man is Hard to Find
Elizabeth Bowen The Needlecase
Grace Paley Later the Same Day
Rosamund Lehmann The Gipsy’s Baby
Doris Lessing The Habit of Loving
Mavis Gallant The Chosen Husband
Angela Carter The Bloody Chamber
Alice Munro Friend of My Youth
Helen Simpson Heavy Weather
A L Kennedy Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains
A M Homes A Real Doll
Lorrie Moore You’re Ugly, Too
Annie Proulx Brokeback Mountain
Isabel Allende Toad’s Mouth
Carol Shields Happenstance
Margaret Atwood Bluebeard’s Egg
Cynthia Ozick The Suitcase
Julie Orringer The Isabel Fish
Ali Smith Paradise
Jackie Kay The Mirrored Twins
Beryl Bainbridge Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie
Rumer Godden To Uncle with Love
Clare Boylan Not a Recommended Hobby for a
Housewife
Men
Ernest Hemingway Hills Like White Elephants
Vladimir Nabokov Spring at Fialta
Jorge Luis Borges Funes the Memorius
D H Lawrence The Prussian Officer
Isaac Bashevis Singer Henne Fire
JG Ballard Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown
Franz Kafka In the Penal Colony
VS Pritchett A Family Man
John Cheever The Swimmer
F Scott Fitzgerald The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
W Somerset Maugham The Alien Corn
R K Narayan Naga
Pu Songling Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
James Baldwin Sonny's Blues
Raymond Carver Cathedral
Dave Eggers Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly
Bernard MacLaverty Up the Coast
Roald Dahl The Great Switcheroo
John McGahern Peaches
Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent
Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother
Will Self The Nonce Prize
TC Boyle Greasy Lake
John Updike The Afterlife
Richard Ford Abyss
China Mieville Reports of Certain Events in London