A DEFINITIVE COLLECTION

A short story is a moment’s monument. It is a curious thing, indeed, for a truly well told short story leaves the reader at once satisfied and eager for more of the same.

In this anthology, writer and editor Terry O’brien brings together 41 short stories from around the world, each one a masterpiece. Selected for their imagination and style, subject matter and richness of language, these are stories that broke new ground and shaped the literature of their time. It is a collection that is varied and diverse, tied together by exemplary writing.

Every writer here is a master of the form: from American poet writer Edgar Allan Poe to Nobel laureate Ernest Hemingway; from English authors W Somerset Maugham and Virginia Woolf to French naturalist and writer Guy de Maupassant and his American counterpart O Henry; from horror and fantasy writer MR James to Jungle Book’s Rudyard Kipling; from Russian playwright Anton Chekhov to Colombian legend Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The Best Short Stories Ever is a definitive collection of the finest short stories ever written.