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What are some good short story collections? I don't know why but I love reading short stories during the wintertime.

>> No.14305583

Chekhov

>> No.14306175
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Dubliners

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2814

>> No.14306191

Guy de Maupassant, get something that has “Ball of Fat” and “The Necklace” in it preferably

>> No.14306202

>>14305582
Borges, Labyrinths and Ficciones are the common choices but I actually like The Aleph and Other Stories the most out of his collections

>> No.14306220

>>14305582
Gogol's Petersburg Tales are masterpieces. Some of the best prose I've ever read, just don't expect it to be flashy.

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>>14305582
Alice Munro is a personal favourite of mine. Canadian short story writer that writes about rural life in Ontario and Saskatchewan. Dance of the Happy Shades is phenomenal.

>>14306175
But definitely take this person's recommendation. Dubliners is probably one of the greatest short story collections of all time.

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Edgar Allan Poe

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The master. His spookier ones are perfect winter reading

>> No.14306317

>>14305582
David Foster Wallace’s Oblivion: Stories

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>>14305582
I'm fond of an Israeli author named Etgar Keret. A lot of his short stories are really short, only a few pages. Some are longer.
Here are some that are online:
http://lemonhound.com/2013/09/27/etgar-keret-cramps-2/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/01/02/creative-writing

He's pretty nuanced on a number of issues that some people on this website dislike Jews for not having nuanced positions on. Not that that's why I like him, but it helps.

>> No.14306397

>>14306220
>Petersburg Tales
Did you read a translation and if so which one?

>> No.14306437

>>14306391
I also like this one. It was his first short story.
https://www.clc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/?p=457

>> No.14306539

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is pretty good.

>> No.14306558

>>14305582
Read these guys' shorts if you're just starting to get into the form:
Hemingway, Faulkner, Babel, Dostoevsky, Carver, Denis Johnson, Salinger, Borges, Kafka, Poe, Joyce

>> No.14306612

If you want something different: Confabulario, Juan José Arreola; The Odessa Tales, Isaac Babel; A Sportsman's Sketches, Ivan Turgenev; don't forget to look for the collections of short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Juan Carlos Onetti.

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>>14305582
If you already like O. Henry you definitely should read some of Mark Twain's short fiction.

>> No.14306735

Any of Turgenev's work.

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Theodore Dreiser

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J. G. Ballard is a good read.

>> No.14308910

Sherwood Anderson - Winesburg Ohio

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Graham Greene and Thomas Wolfe