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This outstanding collection features short stories by great writers from across the world covering the United States of America, Europe, Asia, Middle East and Latin America. Ranging mostly from the 19th to the 20th centuries, writers include Poe, Chekhov, Joyce, Kafka,Faulkner, Pirandello, Mann, Hemingway, Tagore, Lu Hsun and many other major writers of world literature. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common–the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world's fiction. A wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable anthology.