World's Best Short Stories: Volume 1: Volume 1 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789390492275)

World's Best Short Stories is a collection of captivating tales from around the world, penned by some of the greatest storytellers of all time. This is a wonderful collection of famous authors and their splendid stories in ten volumes. Centuries are covered, making this a great resource for any lover of literature, English teachers and students.

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. Contributors include Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, Anton Chekhov, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Rabindranath Tagore, Saki, Kate Chopin and many more.