50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, O’Connor. The variety in style subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common–the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world’s fiction.
作者简介：
Milton Crane is Professor Emeritus of English Language Literature at George Washington University the University of Chicago. His is the author several books articles on English literature, as well as the editor of the Bantam anthology, 50 Great American Short Stories.