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White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a compilation published in 1918 by The MacMillan Company, NY (USA) and Heinemann (UK).

Franz Kafka's novella is a bonafide 20th century classic about a traveling salesman that wakes up one morning to find his body has been transformed into that of a giant dung beatle.

The curious Case of Benjamin Button, a 1921 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

One of Maugham's most famous short stories, Rain unfolds in a soggy tropical paradise marred by self-righteous hypocrites trying to force their moral beliefs on a girl who basically just wants to have fun.

Nathaniel Hawthorne is now considered to be one the first great American fiction writers. Though he's known primarily as the author of long form classics such as the The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne was also a prolific short story writer.

A collection of children’s stories written in 1888, dealing primarily with love and selfishness.

Whilst Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) is perhaps best for his plays such as Uncle Vanya and The Seagull, he was also a prolific author of short stories.

First published in 1914, James Joyce defined what the short story could be with his collection Dubliners. A mixture of prose and poetry, each story can be listened to independently or as a collection.

A collection of short stories on a variety of subjects, by one of New Zealand's best-known writers.

Get in the Irish spirit with James Joyce's classic collection of short stories called simply Dubliners. These 15 short stories published in 1914 depicted the Irish middle class life in Dublin in the early 20th century.