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Great Short Stories of the World
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The leader of the people / John Steinbeck Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham Vanka / Anton Chekhov The happy prince / Oscar Wilde The old demon / Pearl S. Buck The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen Young Archimedes / Aldous Huxley Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers Hautot and his son / Guy de Maupassat The open boat / Stephen Crane My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway A letter to God / Gregorio López y Fuentes The little Bouilloux girl / Colette The ruby / Corrado Alvaro Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer [The boarding house](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073259W/The_Boarding_House) / James Joyce The brute / Joseph Conrad A double game / Alberto Moravia Maternity / Lilika Nakos Lead her like a pigeon / Jessamyn West God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoy The walker-through-walls / Marcel Ayme [The lottery](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3171085W/Lottery) / Shirley Jackson The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm / Mark Twain The Augsburg chalk circle / Bertolt Brecht The overcoat / Sally Benson Blind MacNair / Thomas H. Raddall The procurator of Judaea / Anatole France The open window / Saki (H.H. Munro) María Concepción / Katherine A. Porter My Lord, the baby / Rabindranath Tagore The end of the party / Graham Greene Modern children / Sholom Aleichem Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald Carrion spring / Wallace Stegner Just lather, that's all / Hernando Téllez The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence The Sunday menace / Robert Benchley The Mezzotint /Montague R. James The alligators / John Updike Pelageya / Mikhail Zoshchenko Haircut / Ring Lardner The burning city / Hjalmar Söderberg Fireworks for Elspeth / Rumer Godden The old chief Mshlanga / Doris Lessing Who cares? / Santha Rama Rau Over the river and though the wood / John O'Hara Dental or mental, I say it's spinach / S.J. Perelman The drover's wife / Henry Lawson The huntsmen / Paul Horgan The guest / Albert Camus Patience / Nigel Balchin Among the paths to Eden / Truman Capote Admiral's night / Machado de Assis The bet / Anton Chekhov The man who could work miracles / H.G. Wells A country love story / Jean Stafford A worn path / Eudora Welty The outstation / W. Somerset Maugham A priest in the family / Leo Kennedy The cop and the anthem / O. Henry Marriage á la mode / Katherine Mansfield The nightingale / Maxim Gorky The launch / Max Aub The wreath / Luigi Pirandello The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw You were perfectly fine / Dorothy Parker Luzina takes a holiday / Gabrielle Roy
Creators
Isak Dinesen
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Sholem Aleichem
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Aldous Huxley
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Irwin Shaw
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Reader's Digest Association
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Truman Capote
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Dorothy L. Sayers
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Ernest Hemingway
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Nigel Balchin
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William Somerset Maugham
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Santha Rama Rau
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Albert Camus
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Katherine Anne Porter
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Mark Twain
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John Steinbeck
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Anatole France
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Антон Павлович Чехов
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Nadine Gordimer
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Bertolt Brecht
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Graham Greene
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Frank O'Connor
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Katherine Mansfield
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Corrado Alvaro
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Sally Benson
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John Updike
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Damon Runyon
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Pearl S. Buck
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Jessamyn West
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Shirley Jackson
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Alberto Moravia
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H. G. Wells
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Lilika Nakos
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Oscar Wilde
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Guy de Maupassat
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James Joyce
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Joseph Conrad
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Rumer Godden
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Hernando Tellez
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D. H. Lawrence
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Robert Benchley
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John O'Hara
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S. J. Perelman
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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
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Jean Stafford
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Max Aub
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Gabrielle Roy
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James Thurber
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Leo Kennedy
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Dorothy Parker
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Stephen Crane
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Montague Rhodes James
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Максим Горький
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Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes
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Josh Gregory
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Doris Lessing
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Saki
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Wallace Stegner
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Marcel Aymé
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Colette
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Ring Lardner
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Paul Horgan
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Thomas Head Raddall
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O. Henry
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Luigi Pirandello
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Eudora Welty
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Mikhail Zoshchenko
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Hjalmar Söderberg
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Henry Lawson
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