Great short stories of the world

The leader of the people / John Steinbeck Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham Vanka / Anton Chekhov The happy prince / Oscar Wilde The old demon / Pearl S. Buck The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen Young Archimedes / Aldous Huxley Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers Hautot and his son / Guy de Maupassat The open boat / Stephen Crane My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Conner The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway A letter to God / Gregorio López y Fuentes The little Bouilloux girl / Colette The ruby / Corrado Alvaro Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer The boarding house / James Joyce The brute / Joseph Conrad A double game / Alberto Moravia Maternity / Lilika Nakos Lead her like a pigeon / Jessamyn West God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoy The walker-through-walls / Marcel Ayme The lottery / Shirley Jackson The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm / Mark Twain The Augsburg chalk circle / Bertolt Brecht The overcoat / Sally Benson Blind MacNair / Thomas H. Raddall The procurator of Judaea / Anatole France The open window / Saki (H.H. Munro) María Concepción / Katherine A. Porter My Lord, the baby / Rabindranath Tagore The end of the party / Graham Greene Modern children / Sholom Aleichem Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald Carrion spring / Wallace Stegner

Just lather, that's all / Hernando Téllez

The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber

The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence

The Sunday menace / Robert Benchley

The Mezzotint /Montague R. James

The alligators / John Updike

Pelageya / Mikhail Zoshchenko

Haircut / Ring Lardner

The burning city / Hjalmar Söderberg

Fireworks for Elspeth / Rumer Godden

The old chief Mshlanga / Doris Lessing

Who cares? / Santha R. Rau

Over the river and though the wood / John O'Hara

Dental or mental, I say it's spinach / S.J. Perelman

The drover's wife / Henry Lawson

The huntsmen / Paul Horgan

The guest / Albert Camus

Patience / Nigel Balchin

Among the paths to Eden / Truman Capote

Admiral's night / Machado de Assis

The bet / Anton Chekhov

The man who could work miracles / H.G. Wells

A country love story / Jean Stafford

A worn path / Eudora Welty

The outstation / W. Somerset Maugham

A priest in the family / Leo Kennedy

The cop and the anthem / O. Henry

Marriage á la mode / Katherine Mansfield

The nightingale / Maxim Gorky

The launch / Max Aub

The wreath / Luigi Pirandello

The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw

You were perfectly fine / Dorothy Parker

Luzina take a holiday / Gabrielle Roy.