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50GreatShortStoriesisacomprehensiveselectionfromtheworld'sfinestshortfiction.TheauthorsrepresentedrangefromHawthorne,Maupassant,andPoe,throughHenryJames,Conrad,AldousHuxley,andJamesJoyce,toHemingway,KatherineAnnePorter,Faulkner,E.B.White,Saroyan,andO'Connor.Thevarietyinstyleandsubjectisenormous,butallthesestorieshaveonepointincommon–theenduringqualityofthewriting,whichplacesthemamongthemasterpiecesoftheworld'sfiction.