Great short story writers / short stories



75 Great Short Stories

‘Classic’

Walter Scott Wandering Willie’s Tale

Thomas Hardy The Withered Arm

Honoré de Balzac An Incident in the Reign of Terror

Ivan Turgenev Torrents of Spring

Nathaniel Hawthorne Young Goodman Brown

Guy de Maupassant Boule de Suif

Anton Chekhov House with Mezzanine

Isaac Babel Guy de Maupassant

Edgar Allan Poe Pit & the Pendulum

Herman Melville Bartleby the Scrivener

Robert Louis Stevenson Thrawn Janet

Henry James The Figure in the Carpet

Rudyard Kipling The Gardener

James Joyce The Dead

Joseph Conrad The Secret Sharer

Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Nikolai Gogol Diary of a Madman

‘Modern’

Women

Katherine Mansfield Prelude

Elizabeth Taylor The Devastating Boys

Muriel Spark Bang Bang You’re Dead

Jean Rhys Let Then Call it Jazz

Flannery O'Connor A Good Man is Hard to Find

Elizabeth Bowen The Needlecase

Grace Paley Later the Same Day

Rosamund Lehmann The Gipsy’s Baby

Doris Lessing The Habit of Loving

Mavis Gallant The Chosen Husband

Angela Carter The Bloody Chamber

Alice Munro Friend of My Youth

Helen Simpson Heavy Weather

A L Kennedy Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains

A M Homes A Real Doll

Lorrie Moore You’re Ugly, Too

Annie Proulx Brokeback Mountain

Isabel Allende Toad’s Mouth

Carol Shields Happenstance

Margaret Atwood Bluebeard’s Egg

Cynthia Ozick The Suitcase

Julie Orringer The Isabel Fish

Ali Smith Paradise

Jackie Kay The Mirrored Twins

Beryl Bainbridge Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie

Rumer Godden To Uncle with Love

Clare Boylan Not a Recommended Hobby for a Housewife 

Men

Ernest Hemingway Hills Like White Elephants

Vladimir Nabokov Spring at Fialta

Jorge Luis Borges Funes the Memorius

D H Lawrence The Prussian Officer

Isaac Bashevis Singer Henne Fire

JG Ballard Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown

Franz Kafka In the Penal Colony

VS Pritchett A Family Man

John Cheever The Swimmer

F Scott Fitzgerald The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

W Somerset Maugham The Alien Corn

R K Narayan Naga

Pu Songling Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

James Baldwin Sonny's Blues

Raymond Carver Cathedral

Dave Eggers Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly

Bernard MacLaverty Up the Coast

Roald Dahl The Great Switcheroo

John McGahern Peaches

Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother

Will Self The Nonce Prize

TC Boyle Greasy Lake

John Updike The Afterlife

Richard Ford Abyss

China Mieville Reports of Certain Events in London

George Saunders Commcomm

Donald Barthelme The Indian Uprising

Tim Winton The Turning

Frank O’Connor The Genius

Segun Afolabi Monday Morning

Andrey Platonov The Return

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