Name some English books that include short interisting stories..?

Question

I need it to be in a simple language..interesting because I don't like reading that much..but I need to read every once and a while..

or just name some interesting books that are a "must have"
not necessarly stories..

Answer 1

The old man and the sea by Hemmingway

Interpreter of maladies (this is a short story book by Jhumpa Lahiri)

Answer 2

Do you mean English authors or written in English? If you are talking about the language only, I'd suggest the following three:
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales by Washington Irving
A Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne

If it must be an English author:
Five Christmas Novels by Charles Dickens
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
The Complete Father Brown Stories by G.K. Chesterton
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (correction, they were German & compiled fairy tales from ALL over)
Flowers in the Rain by Rosamunde Pilcher

I have all of the above and they are wonderful and packed with really good short stories.

I would add Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (it's not TOO long) and The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis (each of the 7 books is short). If you enjoy mystery, I'd also suggest Ten Little Indians (also called And Then There Were None) by Agatha Christie or her book The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

There's another book I read years ago that was really good. It's not exactly short stories, but it centers around short stories being told by the narrator's Grandmother and priests she knows. (You don't have to be Catholic to enjoy it.) It's called Grandmother and the Priests by Taylor Caldwell (an American author).

This site http://www.classicshorts.com/ has some really great short stories that you can read online.

If you decide you really want to try to delve into some of the classics, a lot of which are online, you can find a bunch at http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/ (you can download most of them) and http://www.online-literature.com/author_index.php for reading online only.

I hope that helps.

Answer 3

A book written in English that has several short stories:

"The Stories of Eva Luna" by Isabelle Allende.

Absolutely beautifully written, easy language with lots of adjectives and descriptsions, each story is probably 15 pages or less, but some of them are heartbreakingly beautiful.

Also, "The Tolkien Reader" by JRR Tolkien. and "Farmer Giles of Ham" by JRR Tolkien - were written for his kids, but that was back in the 30s and 40s, so they read like adult books (Most kids books then are in "young adult" style by today's standards) - very light reading, happy for the most part. I love "Leaf by Niggle" out of those. Tolkien is a genius (He wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings)

Answer 4

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Answer 5

"The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon" by Washington Irving.

"Victory" by Stephen Coonts (actually, it's several short stories by Coonts and other authors)

Answer 6

20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
The stories are very interesting & well written.

Answer 7

I think you'd probably like "Curses, Inc" by Vivian Vande Velde