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Man there's so many, I really love short stories.
Poe's the Cask of Amontillado, as mentioned several times probably.
Kafka's Metamorphosis
Tom Wolfe's "Only the Dead Knows Brooklyn"
Shirley Jacksons "The Lottery"
James Joyce’s "Dubliners" are only complete in full in my opinion, but Araby is great.
Flannery O’Connor’s "A Good man is hard to find"
I like Garcia Márquez "An old man with very large wings" (dunno if that's the proper title in English? Just translated from the top of my head)
I liked these short stories.
The Olive Grove
Boule De Suif
A Vendetta
By Guy De Maupassant
The Wolves of Cernograntz
By Saki
The Last Leaf
By O Henry
Overcoat
By Ghlam Abbas
Katherine Mansfield's simple and elegant; The Picton Boat.
The best short story : A Good Man is ahrd to find by Flannery O'Connor ; Hawthorne's "The BirthMark"
Joyce Carol Oates' "Manhattan Romance".
these are soem of the short stories that come to my mind.
For me the best short story i have read so far is Notes from the Underground.
the wall
a hunger artist
the cask of amontillado
the diary of a madman
the most dangerous game
a few i can remember as of now
I responded to the thread about truly great short story writers, but I wondered what stories everyone considers truly great. The one's I think are truly great include:
A Rose for Emily - Faulkner
The Fall of the House of Usher - Poe
The Kiss - Chekhov
The Lady With the Dog - Chekhov
The Horse Dealer's Daughter - D.H. Lawrence
The Blind Man - D.H. Lawrence
Miss Brill - Katherine Mansfield
There are others, but I just can't think right now.
Vendetta was good.
The Schoolteacher's Guest was wonderful. Can't remember who it's by.
I bolded up the ones I read and loved, too. Excellent stories - all!:thumbs_upQuote:
Originally Posted by MissScarlett
Evelyn Waugh: Mr Loveday's Little Outing
Roald Dahl: Henry Sugar
P G Wodehouse wrote some good short stories too
The Mud Below - Annie Proulx
Communist - Richard Ford
Career move - Martin Amis
After the denim - Raymond Carver
I hate to see that evening sun go down - William Gay
What is the best short story of ALL TIME?
Who knows? I think a "Top 10" (or at least a "Top 5") list would be much easier
to answer.
Funny how there's now two threads asking almost the same thing :rolleyes:
Nice question. The best story is "Tower of Babel" . This story stands for a universal theme for people who are wondering why there are multiple languages all over the world.
The Story of Bibi Haldar--- by Jhumpa Lahiri...It has a different sensibility
Coloured Lights was also a good collection but don't remember the writer