 | Selected Stories (Wordsworth Classics) by A.P. Chekhov
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 A brilliant budget buy of stories from the master of the short story. Stories to read and read again.
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 | Where I'm Calling from: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £12.42 Often compared to Chekhov, this huge collection from the modern American master of the form will quickly convince you of the power of the short story.
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 | Selected Short Stories (Penguin Classics) by Rabindranath Tagore
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £4.12 Best known for his poetry and Gitanjali in particular, Tagore was also a superb short story writer, the best of which are here, ably translated by William Radice.
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 | The Collected Stories by Carol Shields
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £0.01 600-odd pages of short stories from the late, great Canadian writer, Carol Shields. Deceptively simple and very touching tales.
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 | Tales from Firozsha Baag by Rohinton Mistry
Buy used from: £1.19 A wonderful collection of 11 linked stories. If you've read his novels, and fallen for this peerless writer (and if you haven't, you really should), read his short stories and realise his sheer power.
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 | Boule De Suif, and, Autres Contes De La Guerre (En Francais/In French): Et Autres Contes De La Guerre: Secondary Advanced Level GCE (French literary texts) by Guy de Maupassant
Buy new: £12.02 / Used from: £0.01 I was lucky enough to study this collection of short stories from the marvellous Maupassant during my French A' level. If you don't read French, get a good translation.
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 | Selected Stories (Wordsworth Classics) by O. Henry
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 A massive collection of 100 short stories, by O. Henry. If you only know him from 'The Gift of the Magi', prepare to be impressed by his range.
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 | After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £4.86 / Used from: £0.77 A wonderful introduction to the work of the inimitable Murakami, whose style seems to lend itself perfectly to the short story form.
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 | Selected Stories by Alice Munro
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Heralded by many as the greatest living writer of short stories, this selection includes work from the late sixties until 1994 and will surely win you over.
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 | The May Anthologies: 2001: Short Stories
Buy used from: £20.00 This annual collection from Oxbridge students with which I was involved whilst at university is one to keep an eye on for writers of the future.
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