Undoubtedly Oscar Wilde's Short stories stay with you all your life.
tbarnes, this Murakami story was indeed very poignant.
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Undoubtedly Oscar Wilde's Short stories stay with you all your life.
tbarnes, this Murakami story was indeed very poignant.
Apart from 'Shredni Vashtar', by Saki, I would also say one of Oscar Wilde's short stories: 'The Selfish Giant'. This story touches me, deeply, though I am not religious, particularly when I read it aloud.
of ocurse I love the famous 'Innocent Erendira and her heartless Grandmother' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ummm 'Eyes of a blue dog'
ummm ..... 'Toba Tek Singh' by Saddat Hasan Manto and many more
I love reading Short Stories and thanks to this thread!..... finding loads of new things to read!
so trueQuote:
Originally Posted by Anjali Purohit
I liked 100% girl - the story is so damn cute :D. But, I also enjoyed some of Lovecraft's short stories.
To Room Nineteen by Doris Lessing.
It's such an immaculately depressing story of human frailty and despair that it made me feel much better about my life at the time.
tbarnes, that Murakami story is excellent. I love Murakami's stories.
Richard Brautigan is pretty cool too, I love most of the stories from Revenge of the Lawn, but particularly:
Homage to the San Francisco YMCA: http://brautigan.cybernetic-meadows....ancisco%20YMCA
and another one which I think is called The Weather in San Francisco and is about a women who visits the butchers to buy a pound of liver for her bees. There's also the infamous shortest story ever (for it's time) The Scarletti Tilt, and Ernest Hemingway's Typist. Oh, and 'I was Trying to Describe You to Someone' http://www.bendypig.com/describe.html and Lint. Oh they're all good :D
Gabriel Garcia Marquez has some pretty good short stories too. I love The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World from Leaf Storm. It's just lovely.
i love 'champagne' by chekov. 'the overcoat' by gogol is excellent too. i also think that the stories of angela carter, although are they short stories or too long for that, are very poetic.
I'm also a great fan of Yasunari Kawabata's short stories known as Palm-of-the-Hand stories (Tenohira no Shōsetsu). I don't think that I could just pick one though.
There is some contention on just how long a short story is. The old adages of 'how long is a piece of string?' & 'how big is a small dog?' spring to mind. However, I tend to agree with Isaac Asimov who states that in his opinion ~Quote:
Originally Posted by chrismythoi
1. Short-short story...1000-2000 (words)
2. Short story...........5000-7000
3. Novelette.............10,000-20,000
4. Novella.................30,000-50,000
5. Novel...................70,000 words & up.
I used to not like short stories that much and now I compleletly love them!
Here are some of my favorites:
The Trouseau, In The Ravine (and many more) ~ Anton Chekov
Witch a la Mode and Things (and many more, including the novellas) ~ D.H.Lawrence
The Gift of the Magi ~ O'Henry
First Love ~ Turgenev
All the fairytale short stories by Oscar Wilde
The Dead and Araby ~ James Joyce
The Yellow Wallpaper ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
These are just a few; I will think of others and post later....
This could also be considered 'flash fiction'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Red-Headed
I suppose so. The term 'flash fiction' is not that well known in my country though.Quote:
Originally Posted by DanielBenoit
I really enjoy the short stories of Dylan Thomas. Some of his best stories can be found in,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and
Quite Early One Morning.
I never tire of reading them and go back to them often.
1. Short-short story...1000-2000 (words)
So how do we define something shorter than that? A nano-story?
1. Short-short story...1000-2000 (words)
2. Short story...........5000-7000
3. Novelette.............10,000-20,000
4. Novella.................30,000-50,000
5. Novel...................70,000 words & up.
By the way... what's up with all those gaps: 7001-9,999 and 20,001-29,999 for example?
I have no idea. Ask Isaac Asimov.Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
"By the Waters of Babylon" Stephen Vincent Benet
"Open Window" Saki
"To Build a Fire" Jack London 9questionable
..............
I have no idea. Ask Isaac Asimov.
Somehow, I don't think he'd be up to responding right now.:eek:
Unless someone can invent the time machine...Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
I recently read Veronika Decides to Die by Paolo Coelho and I liked it. I saw the movie trailer a few days ago and I got rather curious to read the book, because people said it's more detailed and has a great story. I heard the movie has received rave reviews too and so, I went out and searched for the book.
I'll probably hunt more short stories to read soon. :D
My favourite short stories are probably The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Behind a Mask by Louisa May Alcott, and Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell.
My favorite short story would have to be a story I read in the tenth grade. It was called The Most Dangerous Game. It was very interesting and kept me hooked. I wanted to read it over and over again.
i like The Four Million by O Henry.
MarkC
I LOVE Kate Chopin's short stories. "The Story of an Hour" is my favorite by her. I also enjoyed Shirley Jackson's "The Tooth" very much as well as John Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums."
Erendira and her heartless grandmother --- Marquez
Closing my eyes, I can utter only the name of "Araby" by James Joyce...It's a brilliant example of Joyce's craftsmanship.
I love this thread.
I like Kafka's stories above anything else and his Metamorphosis is a somewhat lengthened story that appeals to my palate. I have read it, reread it and never got satisfied, not that I did not like the book but that each reading gave me something really new and appealing in point of fact. I like the style he used at times lengthening sentences illimitably. He was really a great writer, a trend-setter and I wish I could write like him, the beauty of his writing is unsurpassed and no one could beat him and as a matter of fact he was capable of putting in words the predicaments or circumstances circumscribing the modern man. In fact all of us in this world of commerce wherein real values are gauged in terms of money and careers and people lost sensibility today and man is a heap of dry bones or a Skelton.
Indeed he was a matchless writer. He disdained popularity and wanted his books to be burned and he got more popularity posthumously. He is a writer we have none to compare with, for he is an originator of new style in writing.
I agree. Kafka stands alone. He is one of the greatest writers, and perhaps the most underrated; and the Metamorphosis is the most unique thing that's ever been written. His shorter works, such as The Hunger Artist and The Penal Colony, are also unique.
Probably Mark Twain's short story about Adam and Eve.
If you haven't read alice munroe yet, give her a try. She's terrific.
big bad wolf
Truman Capote - My Side of the Matter
Henry James - A Bundle of Letters
Thank you for sharing! I enjoyed reading, and it probably is impossible not to recognize Haruki Murakami's stories.
I love Julio Cortazar's short stories. I wouldn't know which one to choose, though! I'd recommend two books with short stories: "Bestiario" and "Historia de cronopios y de famas" ("Cronopios and famas").
Without a doubt, my favorite short story is Octavio Paz's "The Blue Bouquet." Anytime I am stuck with my own writing, I go back to this story, and think seem to open up for me.
I thought at one time there was a full text version online, but I just tried looking and couldn't find it. It is definitely worth checking out for fans of magical realism (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) and even modern disturbing surrealism (Brian Evenson).
"Die Verwandlung" ("The Metamorphosis") by Kafka.
I also enjoyed Annie Proulx' 'Brokeback Mountain' a lot as it's so different to the film.
Oh, and I like Charles Bukowski. ;)
Charles Bukowski...did he write Fight Club? I have never read it, but I saw the movie. It was a little weird.
I recently read a small bit to Twain's Letters from Earth, I thought it was so funny, but I have no idea where to find it. Maybe I'll search Google.