Great Short Short Stories: Quick Reads by Great Writers

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"To buy books would be a good thing," observed Arthur Schopenhauer, "if we also could buy the time to read them." All devoted readers long for more time to spend with their books, and the next best thing to buying time is making the most of the available moments. Great Short Short Stories: Quick Reads by Great Writers offers that opportunity. An outstanding collection of 30 brilliant short stories, each just six or fewer pages in length, it provides the chance to absorb an entire story in just one sitting.
Well-known tales from masters of the short-story genre include: Mark Twain, "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"; Franz Kafka, "A Country Doctor"; Edgar Allan Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado"; Guy de Maupassant, "A Piece of String"; Stephen Crane, "The Veteran"; Kate Chopin, "A Pair of Silk Stockings"; plus works by Dickens, O. Henry, Chekhov, Wilde, and many others. Includes 2 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "A White Heron" and "Cask of Amontillado."

The egg / Sherwood Anderson
An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce
The enchanted bluff / Willa Cather
A malefactor / Anton Chekhov
A pair of silk stockings / Kate Chopin
The veteran / Stephen Crane
The apparition of Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe
Nobody's story / Charles Dickens
If I were a man / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Squire Petrick's lady / Thomas Hardy
The luck of Roaring Camp / Bret Harte
Dr. Heidegger's experiment / Nathaniel Hawthorne
A ghost story / Jerome K. Jerome
A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett
A country doctor / Franz Kafka
Wee Willie Winkie / Rudyard Kipling
Sanctuary / Nella Larsen
Second best / D.H. Lawrence
The white silence / Jack London
Germans at meat / Katherine Mansfield
A piece of string / Guy de Maupassant
The open window / H.H. Munro, or Saki
The furnished room / O. Henry
With other eyes / Luigi Pirandello
The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe
The coffin-maker / Alexander Pushkin
The three hermits / Leo Tolstoy
The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain
The remarkable case of Davidson's eyes / H.G. Wells
The sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde