Greatest Short Stories is a selection from the best of the worlds short fiction bringing together writings by great masters of the genre. Carefully picked for their timeless quality readers are sure to be delighted by the inclusion of such favourites as The Gift of the Magi The Lady with the Dog The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Rain and Mrs Packletides Tiger to name but a few. This outstanding and wideranging anthology of stories is a collectors item designed for readers to refresh their acquaintance with some of the worlds finest writing and for newer readers to be introduced to it. Anton Chekov Charles Dickens Katherine Mansfield Guy de Maupassant F. Scott Fitzgerald H. Rider Haggard O. Henry Rudyard Kipling W.W. Jacobs Virginia Woolf D.H. Lawrence Saki Jerome K. Jerome H.G. Wells Kate Chopin Ambrose Bierce Jack London Frank Stockton Edgar Allan Poe Stephen Leacock James Joyce Bram Stoker Joseph Conrad M. R. James W. Somerset Maugham R. L. Stevenson.