2007-02-19 03:07:36 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
In American Literature: Hawthorne, Poe, O Henry, Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Willa Cather. Ring Lardner, Jack London, Edith Wharton, Eudoa Welty, Dorothy Parker, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemngway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Irwin Shaw, John Cheever, Flannery O'Conner. John O'Hara, Raymond Carver
In "World Literature": Guy de Maupassan, Rudyard Kipling, Hnore de Balzac, Anton Chekhov, Gogol, Roald Dahl, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, H. H. Munro (Saki), Katherine Anne Porter, Virginia Wolfe. Frank O' Conner, V.S. Pritchett, Sean O'Faolain, William Trevor. Isak Dinesen
And please forgive me for those masters that I've omitted.
As for "best stories", sorry I simply don't have the time - and would have a tough task picking a best for any of these writers.
But click on the link below for a list of some of the world's best short stories with authors.
2007-02-19 03:29:41 · answer #1 · answered by johnslat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Roald Dahl. "Lamb to the Slaughter," "The Hitchhiker," "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar," "The Visitor," and many more. Best book to check out: "The Best of Roald Dahl." Rocks like Mount Rushmore. He was so good at children's fiction that his adult stories go almost unnoticed. Some were featured in Alfred Hitchcock Presents," and all are packed with fun. Dark. Twisted. Thy name is Dahl.
John Cheever. "The Worm in the Apple," "The Superintendent," "One More Time," "The Sorrows of Gin," and many more. Check out "The Stories of John Cheever." His stories are character based, not plot based, and are, plotwise, about nothing. Nonetheless, he creates characters that defy comparison.
Christopher Coake. Okay, okay, I haven't read him yet. But I have heard nothing less than stellar things about him. Nothing less than astronomical...mind blowing...legendary. From what I have heard, this guy could put out a book with the word 'um' between every word and it would still be considered a masterpiece. Apparantly he is to short stories as mp3 downloading is to music. They are the new breed. Check out "We're In Trouble."
H.P. Lovecraft and 'Saki' are good, but nobody holds a comparison to Dahl or Cheever.
2007-02-19 14:22:51 · answer #2 · answered by fuzzinutzz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i do not study a ton of short thoughts, yet i love those through Edgar Allen Poe. lots of those i have study are darkish and mysterious, and that i can not in any respect tell what's going to take position. The tell-tale heart is my widespread of his so some distance. My widespread short tale, through any author, is through The Waters of Babylon through Stephen Vincent Benet. at the starting up i did not comprehend it in any respect. It appeared like some twisted myth. besides the undeniable fact that that is easily about submit-apocalyptic large apple, after an atomic bomb destroyed almost quite anybody. the persons who're left trust pre-apocalyptic people to be gods, and large apple is the forbidden city of the gods. that is type of troublesome to describe, besides the undeniable fact that the fairly tale grow to be a lot more beneficial advantageous than my description.
2016-12-04 09:13:24 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier. Kafka, Metamorphosis
2007-02-19 10:05:37 · answer #4 · answered by julie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
PG Wodehouse - Lord Emsworth and his girlfriend (Kipling called this the perfect example of a short story)
Richmal Crompton - William Makes a Night of It
2007-02-19 06:32:35 · answer #5 · answered by CH 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
James Thurber - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (and dozens more).
Stephen Vincent Benet - The Devil and Daniel Webster
(Benet was a one-hit wonder, in my opinion.)
Mark Twain - pick one.
H. H. Munro, writing as "Saki", the one of his I like the best is "The Open Window".
O. Henry, pick one.
2007-02-19 03:16:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. Stephen King's "Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption"
2. Irvine Welsh's "Rab"
Here is the ENTIRE of Irvione Welsh's short story "Rab" (I'm not joking, this genuinely is it, written in phoenetical Scottish):
"Rab hud nivir hud 'is 'ole. Didnae seem tae care mind"
2007-02-19 03:20:05 · answer #7 · answered by Funky B Funky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oscar Wilde - Lord Arthur Saville's Crime
2007-02-19 08:09:01 · answer #8 · answered by judy b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Roald Dahl - brilliant children's writer, but also wrote excellent short stories for adults.
2007-02-19 07:45:39 · answer #9 · answered by Athene1710 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The brothers Grimm, brilliant
2007-02-19 03:13:44 · answer #10 · answered by Eadaoin n 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋