The book "50 Great Short Stories" is a collection of the best short stories, written by the best authors of this genre. I present you the list of these short stories and later on we will read them one by one and get through them, and of course read some analysis on them. Here's the list:

• The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
• The Three-Day Blow by Ernest Hemingway
• The Standard of Living by Dorothy Parker
• The Saint by V. S. Pritchett
• The Other Side of the Hedge by E. M. Forster
• Brooksmith by Henry James
• The Jockey by Carson McCullers
• The Courting of Dinah Shadd by Rudyard Kipling
• The Shot by Alexander Poushkin
• Graven Image by John O'Hara
• Putois by Anatole France
• Only the Dead Know Brooklyn by Thomas Wolfe
• A.V. Laider by Max Beerbohm
• The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
• The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
• Looking Back by Guy de Maupassant
• The Man Higher Up by O. Henry
• The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse by William Saroyan
• The Other Two by Edith Wharton
• Theft by Katherine Anne Porter
• For Esmé, with Love and Squalor by J. D. Salinger
• The Man of the House by Frank O'Connor
• The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles by Edmund Wilson
• The Gioconda Smile by Aldous Huxley
• The Curfew Tolls by Stephen Vincent Benét
• Father Wakes up the Village by Clarence Day
• Ivy Day in the Committee Room by James Joyce
• The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck
• The Door by E. B. White
• An Upheaval by Anton Chekhov
• How Beautiful with Shoes by Wilbur Daniel Steele
• A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf
• The Catbird Seat by James Thurber
• The Schartz-Metterklume Method by Saki
• The Death of a Bachelor by Arthur Schnitzler
• The Apostate by George Milburn
• The Phoenix by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• That Evening Sun by William Faulkner
• The Law by Robert M. Coates
• The Tale by Joseph Conrad
• A Girl from Red Lion, P.A. by H. L. Mencken
• Main Currents of American Thought by Irwin Shaw
• The Ghosts by Lord Dunsany
• The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• A String of Beads by W. Somerset Maugham
• The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles by H. G. Wells
• The Foreigner by Francis Steegmuller
• Thrawn Janet by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Chaser by John Collier