The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age -- Revised

By Антон Павлович Чехов, Douglas Angus

Subjects: short stories, Mentally ill women, death, Domestic fiction, Gothic fiction, Crime fiction, Horror stories, Crime, Horror tales, Irish literature, English fiction, Christmas, nonlinear narrative, Criticism and interpretation, American Horror tales, Horror, 20th century English fiction, christian fiction, gentleman's agreements, first-person narrative, The Lass of Aughrim, West Britons, Christmas stories, Murder, family life, Hyperesthesia, Stories (texts), British and irish fiction, Homicide, Christmas fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, allegory, recluses, American literature, Juvenile fiction, tradition, Classic Literature, Daily Express, Short story, Horror fiction, change, Family reunions, Three Graces, Detective and mystery stories

Description: [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)/ Edgar Allan Poe The jewels / Guy de Maupassant Gooseberries / Anton Chekhov The tree of knowledge / Henry James A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway Youth / Joseph Conrad The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence Bliss / Katherine Mansfield [The dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073437W) / James Joyce Little Herr Friedemann / Thomas Mann Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson The story of my dovecot / Isaac Babel The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner The metamorphosis (part I) / Franz Kafka The wall / Jean-Paul Sartre Judas / Frank O'Connor Of this time, of that place / Lionel Trilling The lottery / Shirley Jackson The ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall