I have a lot of short story collections. I will make a list here:
Collected stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Metamorphosis and other stories by Franz Kafta
The Best Short Sories by Rudyard Kipling
Collected Stories of Guy de Maupassant
Murder in the Menu Edited by Peter Haining
Twelve Read Herrings by Jeffrey Archer
The Raven and other writings by Edgar Allan Poe
Collected Ghost Stories
The Frankenstein Omnibus Edited by Peter Haining
Mavis Gallant: "There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I may never have another occasion. Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one. Shut the book. Read something else. Come back later. Stories can wait."
William Boyd: “…the true, fully functioning short story should achieve a totality of effect that makes it almost impossible to encapsulate or summarise. For it is in this area, it seems to me, that the short story and the novel divide, where the effect of reading a good short story is quite different from the effect of reading a good novel. The great modern short stories possess a quality of mystery and beguiling resonance about them—a complexity of afterthought—that cannot be pinned down or analysed.”
No comments:
Post a Comment