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A review by jersy
50 Great Short Stories by John Steinbeck, W. Somerset Maugham, Shirley Jackson, Clarence Day, John Collier, Irwin Shaw, Arthur Schnitzler, Milton Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Guy de Maupassant, Robert M. Coates, H.H. Munro, Edmund Wilson, Henry James, Anton Chekhov, James Thurber, Edith Wharton, John O’Hara, Katherine Anne Porter, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf, Alexander Sergeievitch Poushkin, Frank O'Connor, V. S. Pritchett, James Joyce, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Vincent Benet, O. Henry, Thomas Wolfe, George Milburn, E.M. Forster, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Katherine Mansfield, Harry Gideon Wells, Max Beerbohm, Aldous Huxley, Flannery O'Connor, Edgar Allan Poe, Ring Lardner, H.L. Mencken, E.B. White, William Saroryan, Lord Dunsany, William Faulkner, Joseph Conrad, Carson McCullers, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anatole France, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Francis Steegmuller
5.0
This didn't earn 5 stars because I loved all of the stories. Of course not, that's hardly possible.
It earned 5 stars as a collection: There was a wide variety of topics, writing styles and types of stories. It covers a time frame of over 50 years and presents different influential authors. Everyone who enjoys modern classics will find somethings they like in here.
I, for myself, liked the majority of stories and the ones I didn't care for still seemed well written. My favourites include stories by Shirley Jackson, John Collier, Dorothy Parker and Edith Wharton. Not only was the collection fun to read but it also helped me discover authors I want to read more of.
So, if you want to get into (modern) classics or short stories, or already enjoy these, this might be something for you. It was created in the 1950's, so just don't read this with wrong expectations.
It earned 5 stars as a collection: There was a wide variety of topics, writing styles and types of stories. It covers a time frame of over 50 years and presents different influential authors. Everyone who enjoys modern classics will find somethings they like in here.
I, for myself, liked the majority of stories and the ones I didn't care for still seemed well written. My favourites include stories by Shirley Jackson, John Collier, Dorothy Parker and Edith Wharton. Not only was the collection fun to read but it also helped me discover authors I want to read more of.
So, if you want to get into (modern) classics or short stories, or already enjoy these, this might be something for you. It was created in the 1950's, so just don't read this with wrong expectations.