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Name: 50 great short stories
Author: Milton Crane

📘 50 great short stories by Milton Crane

50 Great Short Stories is a thoughtfully curated collection of fifty exceptional stories drawn from both American and English literature. The volume showcases a wide range of voices—from Nathaniel Hawthorne and Guy de Maupassant to Edgar Allan Poe and Henry James—alongside modern luminaries such as Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Fa'jikner, E.B. White, William Saroyan, and J.D. Salinger. With diverse styles and subjects, each story exemplifies high literary craftsmanship, establishing the anthology as a representative slice of the world’s finest short fiction.

First publish date: 1952

Genre: General Fiction/Anthologies

Authors: Milton Crane

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