The World's Greatest Short Stories: Selections from Hemingway, Tolstoy, Woolf, Chekhov, Joyce, Updike and more

Wonderfully wide—ranging and enjoyable, this outstanding collection features short stories by great 19— and 20th—century writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe.
Included are Hemingway's "A Clean, Well—Lighted Place," in which two waiters and a lonely customer in a Spanish cafe confront the concept of nothingness; "A & P," John Updike's most anthologized story and one of his most popular; "Borges and I," typical Jorge Luis Borges — imaginative, philosophical, a...