A World of Great Stories: 115 Stories, The Best of Modern Literature

A World of Great Stories: 115 Stories, The Best of Modern Literature by Haydn, Hiram. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780517050491.

This remarkable collection of 115 short stories from around the globe represents the very pinnacle of writing from the last decade of the nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. Thoughtfully edited to include well-known writers of the time and those that would have great influence on storytellers of the future, readers are sure to discover scores of new writers and appreciate those they already know even more. Contributors range from Englands D.H. Lawrence, Denmarks Isak Dines, New Zealands Katherine Mansfield, Ferenc Molnar from Hungary, and Anton Chekhov from Russia, to Ben Hecht and Ring Lardner in the U.S., and a host of others from across the North and South America, Europe and Asia.