Title: Great Short Stories of the World
Description: The leader of the people / John Steinbeck	
Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham	
Vanka / Anton Chekhov	
The happy prince / Oscar Wilde	
The old demon / Pearl S. Buck	
The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen	
Young Archimedes / Aldous Huxley	
Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon	
Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers	
Hautot and his son / Guy de Maupassat	
The open boat / Stephen Crane	
My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor	
The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway	
A letter to God / Gregorio López y Fuentes	
The little Bouilloux girl / Colette	
The ruby / Corrado Alvaro	
Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer	
[The boarding house](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073259W/The_Boarding_House) / James Joyce	
The brute / Joseph Conrad	
A double game / Alberto Moravia	
Maternity / Lilika Nakos	
Lead her like a pigeon / Jessamyn West	
God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoy	
The walker-through-walls / Marcel Ayme	
[The lottery](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3171085W/Lottery) / Shirley Jackson	
The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm / Mark Twain	
The Augsburg chalk circle / Bertolt Brecht	
The overcoat / Sally Benson	
Blind MacNair / Thomas H. Raddall	
The procurator of Judaea / Anatole France	
The open window / Saki (H.H. Munro)	
María Concepción / Katherine A. Porter	
My Lord, the baby / Rabindranath Tagore	
The end of the party / Graham Greene	
Modern children / Sholom Aleichem	
Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald	
Carrion spring / Wallace Stegner	
Just lather, that's all / Hernando Téllez	
The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber	
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence	
The Sunday menace / Robert Benchley	
The Mezzotint /Montague R. James	
The alligators / John Updike	
Pelageya / Mikhail Zoshchenko	
Haircut / Ring Lardner	
The burning city / Hjalmar Söderberg	
Fireworks for Elspeth / Rumer Godden	
The old chief Mshlanga / Doris Lessing	
Who cares? / Santha Rama Rau	
Over the river and though the wood / John O'Hara	
Dental or mental, I say it's spinach / S.J. Perelman	
The drover's wife / Henry Lawson	
The huntsmen / Paul Horgan	
The guest / Albert Camus	
Patience / Nigel Balchin	
Among the paths to Eden / Truman Capote	
Admiral's night / Machado de Assis	
The bet / Anton Chekhov	
The man who could work miracles / H.G. Wells	
A country love story / Jean Stafford	
A worn path / Eudora Welty	
The outstation / W. Somerset Maugham	
A priest in the family / Leo Kennedy	
The cop and the anthem / O. Henry	
Marriage á la mode / Katherine Mansfield	
The nightingale / Maxim Gorky	
The launch / Max Aub	
The wreath / Luigi Pirandello	
The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw	
You were perfectly fine / Dorothy Parker	
Luzina takes a holiday / Gabrielle Roy
Subjects: Short stories, fiction, Mothers and daughters, Horror stories, Rites and ceremonies, Manners and customs, Villages, Stoning, Lotteries, short story, American literature, black spot, scapegoat, mob mentality, family, rules, Nouvelles
Places: Dublin, Ireland, New England
People: Mrs. Mooney, Polly Mooney, Mr. Doran, Zack Bowen, Old Man Warner, Tessie Hutchinson, Mr. Summers, Bill Hutchinson, Harry Graves