- Publisher : Rupa Publications India 7/16, Ansari Road, New Delhi-110002 (5 June 2022); Rupa Publications India 7/16, Ansari Road, New Delhi-110002
- Language : English
- Paperback : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9355204159
- ISBN-13 : 978-9355204158
- Item Weight : 200 g
- Dimensions : 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm
- Country of Origin : India
A short story is a ‘moment’s monument’. It is a curious thing, indeed, for a truly well-told short story leaves the reader at once satisfied and eager for more of the same.
In this anthology, writer and ace editor Terry O’Brien has brought together forty-one short stories from around the world, each one a masterpiece. Selected for their imagination and style, subject matter and richness of language, these are stories that broke new ground and shaped the literature of our time. It is a collection that is varied and diverse, tied together through exemplary writing.
Every writer here is a master of the form: from American poet-writer Edgar Allen Poe to Nobel laureate Ernest Hemingway; from English authors Somerset Maugham and Virginia Woolf to French naturalist and writer Guy de Maupassant and his American counterpart O. Henry; from horror and fantasy writer M.R. James to Jungle Book creator Rudyard Kipling; from Russian playwright Anton Chekhov to Colombian legend Gabriel García Márquez. The Best Short Stories Ever is a definitive collection of the finest short stories ever written.
