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The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1
Daniel Defoe
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Community Reviews
A couple of gems (Poe, Twain, Stockton), but in general a bit too out of date for my taste.
It's clear the academics or publishers or schoolchildren who compiled these stories thought them exemplary of both the quality and history of the English-language short story. If that's true, I'll stick to novels. There were some good stories in here. But sadly, no great ones. And the bad ones (Jame
Bit of a mix, some good, some mediocre - or perhaps just too distant, mostly being written in the 1700s to 1800s -- and one frankly awful. That one story I didn't like and pretty much just skimmed was Henry James' 'Julia Bride' which I found terribly irritating -- one sentence telling you what happe