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Fifty Great Short Stories | 
| Author: Milton Crane
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Category: Book
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 49101
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 592
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0553277456
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.0108
EAN: 9780553277456
ASIN: 0553277456
Publication Date: August 1, 1983
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Product Description
50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors
represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O’Connor. The variety in style and 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.
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 Bedside reading winner October 3, 2008
J. B. Burke (Sarasota, FL USA)
I keep this book of 50 Great Short Stories by my bed for night reading. All the stories are terrific, the best written in English. I knew that this books was used by universities for writing instruction, as well it should. Few can resist the power of a six page wallop of a story. This box has 50 of them.
 Fancy Short Stories March 13, 2008
David Brockert (Madison, Wisconsin)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a really good book of stories. A lot of them seem to hold more promise or insight than I can appreciate (I do not have the breathe of literature education or culture that it takes to understand all the subtle insights). I really enjoyed "The Ghosts" by Lord Dunsany: it had such a way with words describing the fire in the fireplace, etc. But the main interest in these stories is in the society and culture they describe. There is so much that we do know about our history that is spoken of in these stories. "In the Committee Room" by James Joyce is a pretty good everyday sort of experiences of some fellows in Dublin, but maybe there is something I missed.
Excellent Short Stories November 3, 2006
Linda Callis (VA, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was looking for an anthology for my class to read; this is the one I chose. There is an excellent cross section of authors and story types.
 A Little Mix Up January 27, 2006
Eugene N. Kilmer (Los Alamos, New Mexico United States)
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
The ISBN number for this book is actually for a book with the same title and by the same author, but a book having different stories in it. If you take look inside this book, you'll see right away that the cover presented to you looks different. Further investigation reveals that the stories inside the book are not those mentioned by the other reviewers. In short, if you're looking for Milton Crane's "50 Great Stories", ISBN 0553277456, this is not it.
 Enthralling September 7, 2005
L. Swaim
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book was very good. It provided what it promised, and the selection of short stories was indeed great. My only problem with this book is its binding- if you want to keep it for a long time, don't get this edition, because the thing will fall apart in a couple of years.
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