An astonishing collection of fifty of the greatest short stories ever written by some of literature's most highly acclaimed writers. 

1. "Odour of Chrysanthemums" by D. H. Lawrence 

2. "Miss Harriet" by Guy de Maupassant 

3. "Twenty-six Men and a Girl" by Maxim Gorky 

4. "Hot Potatoes" by Arnold Bennett 

5. "Rats" by M. R. James 

6. "Zodomirsky’s Duel" by Alexandre Dumas 

7. "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin 

8. "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe 

9. "The Encased Man" by Anton Chekhov 

10. "A Candle" by Count Leo Tolstoy 

11. "Malachi’s Cove" by Anthony Trollope 

12. "Nine O’Clock" by Wilkie Collins 

13. "The Drover’s Wife" by Henry Lawson 

14. "The Mines of Falun" by E. T. A. Hoffmann 

15. "The Marquise" by George Sand 

16. "Lost in a Pyramid" by Louisa May Alcott 

17. "The Pistol-Shot" by Alexander Pushkin 

18. "The Three Strangers" by Thomas Hardy 

19. "The Boarded Window" by Ambrose Bierce 

20. "Spindleberries" by John Galsworthy 

21. "The Chaplet" by Saki 

22. "In the Reign of Terror" by Anatole France 

23. "Portrait of a Lady" by Jerome K. Jerome 

24. "The Venturers" by O. Henry 

25. "Mons. Cassecruche’s Inspiration" by George Walter Thornbury 

26. "A Witch in the Peak" by R. Murray Gilchrist 

27. "The Brown Wallet" by Stacy Aumonier 

28. "The King of the Golden River" by John Ruskin 

29. "The Reverend Father Gaucher’s Elixir" by Alphonse Daudet 

30. "The Honest Thief" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

31. "The Model Millionnaire" by Oscar Wilde 

32. "The One Million Pound Bank Note" by Mark Twain 

33. "The Monkey’s Paw" by W. W. Jacobs 

34. "The Man with the Watches" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

35. "A Poor Gentleman" by George Gissing