{"product_id":"2940153449739","title":"The Art of the Short Story: 100 Classic Masterpieces","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is an anthology for people who love story-telling. Our one hundred classic masterpieces were selected purely for their capacity to delight, instruct and charm. In this collection, readers will encounter some of the finest writing in world literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eWe have chosen to arrange the stories thematically, dividing the anthology into ten parts as follows:\u003cbr\u003e1) Characters\u003cbr\u003e2) Animals\u003cbr\u003e3) Epiphanies\u003cbr\u003e4) Mystery and Adventure\u003cbr\u003e5) Horror and Ghosts\u003cbr\u003e6) Strange, Surreal and Fantastic\u003cbr\u003e7) Humour, Satire and Tall Tales\u003cbr\u003e8) Love\u003cbr\u003e9) Summer Tales\u003cbr\u003e10) Winter Tales\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlease view the preview of this book for a full listing of contents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eWe hope this arrangement will encourage readers to move between the different parts of the anthology as their interest takes them, discovering as they do so, the shared sensibilities of authors remote in time and place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThough these stories vary enormously in theme, tone and setting—from Russian snow storms, to spiritual epiphanies in Winesburg, Ohio—each of them has enthralled readers across generations; is exemplary in its attention to detail and evocation of mood; resists all simplistic and univocal interpretations, and remains as fresh and penetrating today as when it was first written.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt Elsinore Books we pride ourselves on creating beautiful e-books, and devote great attention to formatting, and ease of navigation. This book contains a cleanly-styled contents page that permits easy movement between the stories. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eContents:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 1: Characters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eGusev — Anton Chekhov\u003cbr\u003eBoule de Suif — Guy de Maupassant\u003cbr\u003eAlyosha the Pot — Leo Tolstoy\u003cbr\u003eMateo Falcone — Prosper Mérimée\u003cbr\u003eLittle Brother — Mary E. Mann\u003cbr\u003eBartleby, The Scrivener — Herman Melville\u003cbr\u003eThe Lightning-Rod Man — Herman Melville\u003cbr\u003eThe Ambitious Guest — Nathaniel Hawthorne\u003cbr\u003eThe Darling — Anton Chekhov\u003cbr\u003eA Simple Heart — Gustave Flaubert\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 2: Animals\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eSredni Vashta — Saki\u003cbr\u003eKholstomer, The Story of a Horse — Leo Tolstoy\u003cbr\u003eA Dark-Brown Dog — Stephen Crane\u003cbr\u003eKashtanka — Anton Chekhov\u003cbr\u003eThe Cat That Walked By Himself — Rudyard Kipling\u003cbr\u003eThe Black Cat — Edgar Allan Poe\u003cbr\u003eThe Fly — Katherine Mansfield\u003cbr\u003eThe Boar-Pig — Saki\u003cbr\u003eThe Tiger Guest — Pu Songling\u003cbr\u003eJackals and Arabs — Franz Kafka\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 3: Epiphanies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eAraby — James Joyce\u003cbr\u003eThe Dead — James Joyce\u003cbr\u003eThe Strength of God — Sherwood Anderson\u003cbr\u003eThe Egg — Sherwood Anderson\u003cbr\u003eA Death in the Desert — Willa Cather\u003cbr\u003eRoman Fever — Edith Wharton\u003cbr\u003eThe Story of an Hour — Kate Chopin\u003cbr\u003eHome Sickness — George Moore\u003cbr\u003eThe Madonna of the Future — Henry James\u003cbr\u003eThe Kiss — Anton Chekhov\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 4: Mystery and Adventure\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Red-Headed League — Arthur Conan Doyle\u003cbr\u003eThe Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle — Arthur Conan Doyle\u003cbr\u003eThe Arrow of Heaven — G. K. Chesterton\u003cbr\u003eThe Sign of the Broken Sword — G. K. Chesterton\u003cbr\u003eThe Purloined Letter — Edgar Allan Poe\u003cbr\u003eThe Master of Mystery — Jack London\u003cbr\u003eThe Problem of Cell 13 — Jacques Futrelle\u003cbr\u003eThe Three Stranger — Thomas Hardy\u003cbr\u003eThe Diamond as Big as the Ritz — F. Scott Fitzgerald\u003cbr\u003eA Jury of Her Peers — Susan Glaspell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 5: Horror and Ghosts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Body Snatcher — Robert Louis Stevenson\u003cbr\u003eThe Signal-Man — Charles Dickens\u003cbr\u003eAugust Heat — W. F. Harvey\u003cbr\u003eThe Monkey’s Paw — W. W. Jacobs\u003cbr\u003e“Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You my Lad” — M. R. 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