The Folio Book of Great Short Stories

This anthology collects short stories chosen as examples of the form rather than as members of one genre. Typical pieces include a social reversal, a moral test, a glimpse of a marriage or a childhood, and an ending that turns on a recognition rather than a plot twist alone. Authors are drawn from the standard English-language and European short-story canon of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The stories are independent; there is no frame. The book is a general reader in short fiction, not a themed collection of crime, ghost, or comic tales and not a single writer's collected stories.

Bound in pattern blocked gold metallic paper. Die-cut mid-blue slipcase lined in black paper. Olive endpapers.