Short Stories: Classic Authors
Thomas Ford staff recommend these short story collections to readers who like classic authors who have withstood the test of time. If not on our Summer Shorts reading display, those without a call letter may be found in the adult fiction section which is alphabetized by author.
BOT = Books on Tape, YA/PB = Young Adult Paperback
Nelson Algren
The Last Carousel
Saul Bellow
Him with his Foot in his Mouth
Pearl S. Buck
Fourteen Stories
Albert Camus
Exile and the Kingdom
John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever
Anton Chekhov
The Undiscovered Chekhov
Joseph Conrad
A Set of Six
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Mysteries)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Return of Sherlock Holmes
Masterworks of Crime & Mystery
William Faulkner
Collected Stories
Uncollected Stories
Ernest Hemingway
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories (YA/PB)
O. Henry
Cabbages and Kings
Heart of the West
Options
Sixes and Sevens
Complete Works
Henry James
Complete Stories
James Joyce
Dubliners (BOT)
Jack London
Novels & Stories
W. Somerset Maugham
Cakes and Ale and Twelve Short Stories
The Maugham Reader
Herman Melville
Complete Shorter Fiction
Vladimir Nabokov
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
Edgar Allan Poe
Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Stories
Booth Tarkington
The Gentleman from Indianapolis: A Treasury
Mark Twain
The Complete Humorous Sketches and Tales (817)
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (BOT)
Jessamyn West
Love, Death, and the Ladies' Drill Team
Edith Wharton
The Stories of Edith Wharton
Nancy Long, Thomas Ford Memorial Library, June 2008
