THE BEST SHORT STORIES EVER

A short story is a ‘moment’s
monument’. It is a curious thing, indeed, for a truly well-told short story
leaves the reader at once satisfied and eager for more of the same.

In this anthology, writer and ace editor Terry O’Brien has brought together
forty-one short stories from around the world, each one a masterpiece.
Selected for their imagination and style, subject matter and richness of
language, these are stories that broke new ground and shaped the literature
of our time. It is a collection that is varied and diverse, tied together
through exemplary writing.

Every writer here is a master of the form: from American poet-writer Edgar
Allen Poe to Nobel laureate Ernest Hemingway; from English authors Somerset
Maugham and Virginia Woolf to French naturalist and writer Guy de Maupassant
and his American counterpart O. Henry; from horror and fantasy writer M.R.
James to Jungle Book creator Rudyard Kipling; from Russian playwright Anton
Chekhov to Colombian legend Gabriel García Márquez. The Best Short Stories
Ever is a definitive collection of the finest short stories ever written.