A short story is a ‘moment’s\n monument’. It is a curious thing, indeed, for a truly well-told short story\n leaves the reader at once satisfied and eager for more of the same.\n \n In this anthology, writer and ace editor Terry O’Brien has brought together\n forty-one short stories from around the world, each one a masterpiece.\n Selected for their imagination and style, subject matter and richness of\n language, these are stories that broke new ground and shaped the literature\n of our time. It is a collection that is varied and diverse, tied together\n through exemplary writing.\n \n Every writer here is a master of the form: from American poet-writer Edgar\n Allen Poe to Nobel laureate Ernest Hemingway; from English authors Somerset\n Maugham and Virginia Woolf to French naturalist and writer Guy de Maupassant\n and his American counterpart O. Henry; from horror and fantasy writer M.R.\n James to Jungle Book creator Rudyard Kipling; from Russian playwright Anton\n Chekhov to Colombian legend Gabriel García Márquez. The Best Short Stories\n Ever is a definitive collection of the finest short stories ever written.