I hope It will be interesting.
Who like the novel "the picture of Dorian Gray"
I hope It will be interesting.
Who like the novel "the picture of Dorian Gray"
"a nice day for bananafish and other stories" by j.d. salinger
the short fictions of raymond carver
"the quantity theory of insanity" by will self (perhaps more in the mould of a modern, if bizarre, oscar wilde)
more traditionally: "death in venice" (thomas mann) is among the greatest short stories (well, technically novella) ever written (i guess, of all of these, the one you "must read")
"You taught me language, and my profit on't is,
i know how to curse.
The red plague rid you for learning me your language" - Caliban: The Tempest
These should enhance any list:
Adam, One Afternoon by Italo Calvino.
The Ebony Tower by John Fowles.
Any collection of O Henry.
East West by Salman Rushdie.
Any and all stories by Poe, especially
Balloon-Hoax, The (1844)
Devil in the Belfry, The (1839)
Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences (1843)
Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The (1845)
Imp of the Perverse, The (1845)
Loss of Breath (1833 and 1840)
Man That Was Used Up, The (1839)
Mellonta Tauta (1848)
MS. Found in a Bottle (1833)
Murders in the Rue Morgue, The (1841)
Mystery of Marie Roget, The (1842-1843)
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, The
Pit and the Pendulum, The (1842)
Premature Burial, The (1844)
Purloined Letter, The (1844)
System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, The (1844)
Tale of the Ragged Mountains, A (1844)
Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaal, The (1835)
William Wilson (1839)
http://www.eapoe.org/
I loved The Picture of Dorian Gray! I belive I'll be reading Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest for my literature class. One of my favorite stories ever is Bartleby, the Scriviner, which (surprise-surprise) can be found in its entirety @ www.bartleby.com.
I agree with you all, and I add some of my favorites too:
Ligeia, Berenice, The man of the crowd -really love this one... ce grand malheur, de ne pouvoir pas etre seul ) (Edgar Allan Poe)
Go down Moses, Portrait of Helmer, Was, Pantaloon in Black, A rose for Emily (William Faulkner)
Bartleby (Melville. I just finished it)
Deshoras, Un tal Lucas (Julio Cortázar)
White Nights, (Dostoievsky)
...and more, much more than this
... no person could be less liable than myself to be led away from the severe precincts of truth by the ignes fatui of superstition.
Edgar Allan Poe
Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.
Joseph Glanvill
Random
I was fighting with my memory to recover the complete title of Bartleby and there is someone who has writed it! I readed The importance of being Earnest, and cucumber sandwich is an enigma to my imagination. But I laughed a lot reading it.Originally Posted by alexanderpope
... no person could be less liable than myself to be led away from the severe precincts of truth by the ignes fatui of superstition.
Edgar Allan Poe
Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.
Joseph Glanvill
One should read short stories for pleasure and elucidation, not because one "must."
These are some rather unique stories I enjoyed:
The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence
An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes by J. D. Salinger
Impostor by Philip K. Dick
Among the Dangs by George P. Elliott
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky
the Picture of Dorian Gray is easy to read.I don't think it will help for me to learn literature.Wilde is a gay.Ha ha.It is intersting.
Aw, short stories are great!!
My favourite is Dr. Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar A. Poe gives an interesting insight into a madman's brain...
A Day's Wait by Ernest Hemingway is also very good, displays what fears can arise when doesn't know how to convert Celsius and Fahrenheit
I also like An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce very much, which was already mentioned.
PS: oh, and a happy New Year to everyone
"Where mind meets matter, both should woo!"Currently reading:
* Paradise Lost by John Milton
To what has gone before, I'll add the short stories of O. Henry, Robert Louis Stevenson, and the immortal Mark Twain. The latter's "Cannibalism in the Cars", "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyberg", and "The Invalid's Tale" are priceless. For O. Henry try "The Ransom of Red Chief", "Roads of Destiny", "After Twenty Years", "The Last Leaf", and the Christmas tale "The Gift of the Magi." Stevenson's "The Body-Snatchers", "Thrawn Janet", and others are in the same vein as "Dr, Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
PeterL, you more or less name dall the Poe stories I have not read yet. But I want to add "The Black Cat" to that list .... and the "Fall of the House of Usher"
"Araby" and "The Dead" by Joyce.
I usually loath Margret Attwood, but her story "happy Endings" is pretty decent too.
Irish poets, learn your trade!
-Yeats
The Lady or the Tiger --Frank Stockton I think---I never have my books/reference material in the room where the computer is and the also The Most Dangerous Game who authorship I can't recall if you offered me Batman #1 for the answer. But the stories themselves are unforgettable esp the "Tiger"---(my guess/opinion)--to those who've read the story you'll know what I'm referrring to.
Off top of me head - Graham Greene's 'The Destructors' - I think the vlume is '21 Stories' or similar title. Probably online. There has probably been a re-awakened interest in it due to appearance in 'Donny Darko'. D.H. Lawrences short stories are great. Will Self's are worth a read. As are Martin Amis'. Charles Bukowski's a re great.
A bit longer than the ones listed :
"The Old Man and the Sea" by Hemingway
"Notes From the Underground" by Dostoevski
"Metamorphosis" by Kafka
I read "The Pictire of Dorian Gray" a few weeks ago and enjoyed it, "The Importance of Being Earnest" is great as well.
"And the worms, they will climb
The rugged ladder of your spine"
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