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Two awesome short stories:
"Babylon Revisited" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor
as a matter of fact, O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is a collection of short stories that is amazing from start to finish. Believe it!
If you love the jazz age...Fitzgerald cannot be topped. For a surreal experience, check out "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz"
My favorite short story writer is D.H. Lawrence. Must reads: "The Prussian Officer," "Odour of the Chrysanthemums," "The Blind Man," "Wintry Peacock," "The Horse-Dealer's Daughter," "The Princess," "The Woman Who Rode Away." Lots of others too.
I'd say
"A Story" by Dylan Thomas or basically any of his stories
I notice someone mentioned a story called 'The Lottery'. I'm not sure if it's the same one I have read, but it was a rather creepy little story, and I read it in Year Nine for English. I can't remember who wrote it though.
Roald Dahl is great, so is F. Scott Fitzgerald. I recently read an interesting story by Anais Nin, called "The Child Born Out of the Fog", which might be worth a look. Good luck to you anyway.
I haven't read many short stories but my favorite author of short stories so far is Jorge Borges ,and I've only read about 140 pages of his so far. My favorite short stories (so far) are The Aleph, Death and the Compass, The Other Death, The Two Kings and Their Two Labyrinths. I also liked The Silent Men by Albert Camus.
Snows of Kilimanjaro
The Short Happy Life of Francois Macombner
Leaf By Niggle ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Taras Bulba ~ Nikolai Gogol
The Kreutzer Sonata ~ Leo Tolstoy
The Gambler ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Leutnant Gustl" - Arthur Schnitzler
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Aleen Poe.
Great read. You can read into his mind and his insanity by all of his works.
My vote for Gift of the Magi by O. Henry or The Lady or the Tiger? by Frank Stockton.
I would have to agree that "Harrison Bergeron" is an excellent story; it's by Kurt Vonnegut.Quote:
Originally Posted by gatsbysghost
It's hard for me to pick out a favorite, but some excellent stories are "Roman Fever" by Edith Wharton, "The Short, Happy Life of Francis MacComber" by Hemingway (already mentioned by several others), "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst, and "The Swimmer" by John Cheever. Oh, and also "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates. There are too many excellent short stories to name them all...
Kafka - The Metamorphoses
Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground
Camus - The Stranger
Edgar Allan Poe - "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart"
Arthur Conan Doyle - "A Scandal in Bohemia"
J.D. Salinger - "For Esme - With Love and Squalor"
Robert Coover - "The Square-Shooter and the Saint"
Jack Kerouac - "Good Blonde"
Willa Cather - "Coming, Aphrodite!"
"The Open Window" by Saki
"Uncle Fred Flits By" by P.G. Wodehouse
"The Monkey's Paw" by (I think) Munroe
"In the Penal Colony" Kafka