Fifty Great Short Stories by Virginia Woolf, Edmund Wilson, Arthur Schnitzler, Robert M. Coates, Ernest Hemingway, O. Henry, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Collier, Frank O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Wilbur Daniel Steele, E.B. White, Henry James, Irwin Shaw, Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Townsend Warner, James Joyce, George Milburn, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Milton Crane, Clarence Day Jr., William Saroyan, H.L. Mencken, John Steinbeck, Edgar Allan Poe, James Thurber, Francis Steegmuller, John O'Hara, V.S. Pritchett, Stephen Vincent Benét, Edith Wharton, W. Somerset Maugham, Katherine Anne Porter, Max Beerbohm, Saki, Rudyard Kipling, Aldous Huxley, Guy de Maupassant, E.M. Forster, Flannery O'Connor, Anton Chekhov, Anatole France, Shirley Jackson, William Faulkner, Katherine Mansfield, Ring Lardner, Alexander Pushkin, H.G. Wells, Lord Dunsany, Thomas Wolfe

470 pages first pub 1952 (editions)

fiction classics short stories adventurous reflective medium-paced
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Community Reviews Summary of 179 reviews

Moods

adventurous 54%
reflective 54%
challenging 45%
emotional 36%
funny 36%
mysterious 27%
sad 27%
inspiring 18%
lighthearted 18%
relaxing 18%
tense 18%
dark 9%
hopeful 9%
informative 9%

Pace

medium 57%
slow 35%
fast 7%

Plot- or character-driven?

A mix: 85% | N/A: 14%

Strong character development?

No: 37% | N/A: 37% | It's complicated: 25%

Loveable characters?

It's complicated: 50% | N/A: 37% | No: 12%

Diverse cast of characters?

N/A: 37% | It's complicated: 25% | Yes: 25% | No: 12%

Flaws of characters a main focus?

N/A: 37% | Yes: 37% | It's complicated: 25%

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