Description
This brilliant collection spans the incredible variety of subject matter and styles we have come to associate with the short story.
Beginning with modern classics, including Hemingway's "The Killers," it traces the development of the genre through the early decades of this century in works such as Maugham's "Rain" and Ivan Bunin's "The Gentleman from San Francisco," concluding with nineteenth-century masterpieces by Mark Twain, Tolstoi, Poe and Balzac,
