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Your Favourite Short Stories by AjanleKoko: 10:43pm On Jan 18, 2011
Which famous short stories do you like? Here's a thread for you to list your all-time favourites.
Mine are as follows (a long list, sorry!):

Ernest Hemingway - A Man of the People
Dylan Thomas - The Followers (personal favourite!)
Lionel Trilling - Of this time, of that place
D.H. Lawrence - Tickets Please
James Joyce - A Painful Case
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Red-Headed League (from the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
Edgar Allan Poe - The Purloined Letter
Anton Chekhov - The Black Monk

Let's hear what yours are.
Re: Your Favourite Short Stories by vescucci(m): 2:04am On Jan 31, 2011
Lol. I said to myself before reading that one of ACD's books will be there. I'm afraid I dunno what constitutes a short story exactly anymore especially those of old.


Uses of Intelligence - I have forgotten the writer

Virtually all of ACD's short stories (Five Orange Pips mostly)

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - by Washington Irving


Apparently I haven't read many short stories.
Re: Your Favourite Short Stories by PhysicsMHD(m): 7:59am On Jan 31, 2011
Good thread.

Fyodor Dostoevsky - White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Dream of A Ridiculous Man
Fyodor Dostoevsky-  A Gentle Creature
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Bobok
Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Eternal Husband
Ivan Bunin - The Gentleman From San Francisco
Ivan Turgenev - A Desperate Character
Leo Tolstoy- Master and Man
Leo Tolstoy - Alyosha the Pot
Dambudzo Marechera - The House of Hunger
Ryunosuke Akutagawa - In a Grove
D.H. Lawrence - The Rocking Horse Winner
Francis Scott Fitzgerald - Babylon Revisited
Francis Scott Fitzgerald - Winter Dreams
Yukio Mishima - Acts of Worship
Yukio Mishima - Patriotism
Raymond Carver- Cathedral
Raymond Carver- A Small, Good Thing
Roberto Bolaño - Gómez Palacio
Roberto Bolaño - Last Evenings on Earth
Roberto Bolaño - The Insufferable Gaucho
Haruki Murakami - The Second Bakery Attack
Haruki Murakami - The Kangaroo Communique
Haruki Murakami - On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning
Gabriel Garcia Marquez- A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
Jorge Luis Borges - The Book of Sand
Jorge Luis Borges - The Aleph
Jorge Luis Borges - Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Jorge Luis Borges - The Secret Miracle
Jorge Luis Borges - The Garden of Forking Paths
Nikolai Gogol - Diary of a Madman
Nikolai Gogol- The Nose
Alexander Pushkin - The Queen of Spades
Leo Tolstoy - Strider
Leo Tolstoy- What Men Live By


Looking at my list again, I think I need to diversify. It seems like I only really read the Russian, Japanese and Latin American authors. undecided
Re: Your Favourite Short Stories by vescucci(m): 3:45pm On Jan 31, 2011
Ah. Diversify huh? I'm humbled in your presence, lol. Didn't even know most of the above existed.
Re: Your Favourite Short Stories by afrosays(m): 12:33pm On Feb 01, 2011
@PhysicsMHD

I love writing short stories, I recently started and I'm still learning. You could check our my blog, afrosays on wordpress.

Id love to improve how I write because I usually have the challenge of communicating very complex ideas in a simpler form.

Please where can I find these books?
Re: Your Favourite Short Stories by MyneWhite1(f): 6:24am On Feb 03, 2011
I have a big fat book called, The Art of the Tale - An international anthology of short stories. They started it with Chinua Achebe, in Alphabetical order. That is one great book, many awesome shorts in there.
Re: Your Favourite Short Stories by afrosays(m): 12:03pm On Feb 03, 2011
I have a big fat book called, The Art of the Tale - An international anthology of short stories. They started it with Chinua Achebe, in Alphabetical order. That is one great book, many awesome shorts in there.

Hey Myne, I want to borrow! or buy! Where can I find it?
wink and thanks for dropping by my blog again (Your second logged visit). I look forward to seeing you more often.
Re: Your Favourite Short Stories by MyneWhite1(f): 4:43pm On Feb 03, 2011
I look forward to seeing you more often on my blog too. As for the book, are you in the US Seattle area? Otherwise, I'm sure you can find it to buy somewhere. It's a classic.

afrosays:

Hey Myne, I want to borrow! or buy! Where can I find it?
wink and thanks for dropping by my blog again (Your second logged visit). I look forward to seeing you more often.
Re: Your Favourite Short Stories by afrosays(m): 1:00pm On Feb 04, 2011
I look forward to seeing you more often on my blog too. As for the book, are you in the US Seattle area? Otherwise, I'm sure you can find it to buy somewhere. It's a classic.

I'm there every single time I go blog touring. I just get lost on the stories because I'm not sure whether they are a part of a series or one-offs.

I am Lagos-based. I should check the popular Lagos bookstores for our book then.

Have a great weekend Myne!
Re: Your Favourite Short Stories by Nickydrake(m): 10:32pm On Dec 12, 2011
Saki - The Lost Sanjak

A host of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories including The Dancing Men, The Speckled Band, and The Priory School.

Quite a few of G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown Stories.

An Odd Occurence on Owl Creek Bridge - Ambrose Bierce (i think)
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Re: Your Favourite Short Stories by Chindykuska(m): 6:58pm On Sep 18, 2013
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Re: Your Favourite Short Stories by einsteine(m): 11:48am On Sep 20, 2013
The Big Sleep- Raymond Chandler, The Purloined Letter- Edgar Allen Poe, 1408 and Quitters, inc- Stephen King.

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