Examine The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces Translated By Beverly Lawn Presented In Ebook

selection somewhat dated not surprising, though the anthology is overyears old, The lack of introductory info and critical responses is both frustrating and liberating, . . nice to read free of others' opinions, but the insight and feedback are missed, . . Overall, an accessible, if sometime bland, mix of mostly familiar and interesting pieces, Not a bad way to knock outShortStoriesDays What a wonderful wakeup call from my "chronological snobbery," as c, s. lewis put it nicely. A great collection of short stories, An outstanding collection of different types of short stories, I like to dip into this book every now and then at random to pick a short story to read, Not sure all of them deserve the label "masterpieces", Some feel dated like 'Young Goodman Brown', which even Hawthorne repeatedly decided not to include in his early collections of stories, Why Maybe because it deals with too many big themes in a small space, I personally don't think it lends itself well to a short story tho' Melville found it powerfully disturbing, . . so what do I know Some of thestories collected in this book do hold up well over time like Chekov's 'The Lady with the Dog', for instance.
I never tire of rereading it, and always find something to admire in his technique as he dissects his characters with surgical precision, It provides a marvelous slice of life in turnofthecentury Russia, Without trying to shove any moralizing down the reader's throat, I might add, The collection provides an ample range of fiction up to contemporary writers such as Joyce Carol Oates a better shortstory writer than novelist perhaps, Not all of the

selections necessarily best represent the authors, though, Is James Joyce's 'Araby' really that masterful Does 'The Pupil' really do Henry James justice So to me the word "masterpiece" is a little misleading in the title of this handy shortstory collection.
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