Publisher's Synopsis
'World's Best Short Stories: Volume 2' is a compilation of mesmerizing adventure tales from all around the planet, written by some of the most extraordinary storytellers and admiringly celebrated authors. Centuries are overwhelmed with amazing narratives for all lovers of literature, English teachers, and students.
A selection of timeless masterpieces, this edition belongs to every avid reader's personal collection, who continues to show a huge appetite for short stories. This undoubtedly brings literature's most wonderful short stories to delight, distract, comfort, and inspire.
The assortment in style and subject is immense, but all these stories have one point in common-the continuing quality of the writing, which places them among the masterworks of the world's fiction. Contributors include Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, Anton Chekhov, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Rabindranath Tagore, Saki, Kate Chopin and many more.
