Here are some of my favorite short stories (25+ stories from 20+ authors – for now). More to come!
*If I have written a review for any short story on this list, I have marked it with an asterisk. Search author, country, or story in the sidebar.
Achebe, Chinua: Marriage is a Private Affair
Behan, Brendan: The Confirmation Suit
Chopin, Kate: *The Story of an Hour
Dahl, Roald: The Landlady
Faulkner, William: Barn Burning
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins: *The Yellow Wallpaper
Joyce, James: Araby, The Dead
Lavin, Mary: Brother Boniface, The Story of the Widow’s Son
Mansfield, Katherine: The Fly
Maugham, W. Somerset: Rain
Maupassant, Guy de: Boule de Suif, The Necklace
O’ Connor, Flannery: A Good Man is Hard to Find
O’ Connor, Frank: First Confession
Poe, Edgar Allan: The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart
Thurber, James: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Updike, John: A & P
Wells, H.G.: The Door in the Wall
Welty, Eudora: *Why I Live at the P.O.
Wharton, Edith: The Letters, Roman Fever
Wilde, Oscar: The Canterbury Ghost, Fairytales: The Remarkable Rocket, The Selfish Giant, The Star Child
Carpe Librum!📚Seize the Book…and let the page-turning begin!
I love Maugham’s short stories. Check out the chilling “A Man from Glasgow” and the cautionary tale “The Lotus Eater.”
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Thank you, Richard. You just reminded me that I must reread Maugham’s Of Human Bondage.
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I read “Boule de Suif” some time ago and remember feeling sorry for her, how the travellers in the coach used her to suit themselves, and her own sense of dignity lost.
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Oh, yes, Marcus. This story is a little masterpiece. De Maupassant has a real talent in depicting human nature. It is interesting that the passengers partake in Boule de Suif’s basket of food when they are hungry, but when she saves them from an inescapable situation at the Inn by using her “womanly gifts,” they cast her off. Very sad.
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Poe’s works are excellent. The Tell-Tale Heart is a great example of conscience haunting the mind!
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I agree, Marcus. I will review Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” this coming Halloween and include a new audio recording. Prepare to be frightened!
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