Fifty Great Short Stories

beendet am: 23.12.25 Sprache: Englisch < "50 Great Short Stories" is a comprehensive selection from the world's finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O'Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common-the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world's fiction. > Hier waren einige gute Kurzgeschichten dabei und einige, die ok waren. Es ist schön, dass man eine Kurzgeschichte pro Tag lesen kann und damit ein bisschen gelesen hat, auch an sehr vollen Tagen. Manche dieser Geschichten werde ich definitiv öfter lesen, da sie schöne Aussagen hatten. Auch bekommt man hier eine kurze Einführung in den Schreibstil einiger sehr bekannter Autoren und kann damit auch welche entdecken, von denen man mehr lesen möchte. Ein Kann, aber kein Muss.

Don't know what I thought what would happen. I am not really the type for reading short stories, I need too much time to really ease into a story. There were certainly some interesting premisses and I suppose some short stories are part of the general cultural knowledge, so it was educational, but in general, reading this book felt like a chore. It might be a nice read in a small dosis though. (Not for me sadly.)

This didn't earn 5 stars because I loved all of the stories. Of course not, that's hardly possible. It earned 5 stars as a collection: There was a wide variety of topics, writing styles and types of stories. It covers a time frame of over 50 years and presents different influential authors. Everyone who enjoys modern classics will find somethings they like in here. I, for myself, liked the majority of stories and the ones I didn't care for still seemed well written. My favourites include stories by Shirley Jackson, John Collier, Dorothy Parker and Edith Wharton. Not only was the collection fun to read but it also helped me discover authors I want to read more of. So, if you want to get into (modern) classics or short stories, or already enjoy these, this might be something for you. It was created in the 1950's, so just don't read this with wrong expectations.