World's Greatest Short Stories

Wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable this outstanding collection features short stories by great 19- and 20th-century writers from America the United Kingdom Ireland and Western Europe. <br>Included are Hemingway's A Clean Well-Lighted Place in which two waiters and a lonely customer in a Spanish cafe 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; as well as 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.<br>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.