That Glimpse of Truth: 100 of the Finest Short Stories Ever Written
Editor: David Miller
ISBN: 9781800249646
Imprint: Head of Zeus
Published: 1st March 2022 (originally published 2014)
Format: Flexi
Pages: 946
- ‘The Hare and the Tortoise’ | Aesop
- ‘The Book of Jonah’ | Anon
- ‘The Deceitful Marriage’ | Miguel de Cervantes
- ‘The Children of Hamelin’ | The Brothers Grimm
- ‘The Red Shoes’ | Hans Christian Anderson
- ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ | Edgar Allan Poe
- ‘The Nose’ | Nikolai Gogol
- ‘The Signal-Man’ | Charles Dickens
- ‘A Simple Heart’ | Gustave Flaubert
- ‘Desiree’s Baby’ | Kate Chopin
- ‘The Horla’ | Guy de Maupassant
- ‘The Lagoon’ | Joseph Conrad
- ‘Fleet-Footed Hester’ | George Gissing
- ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’ | Arthur Conan Doyle
- ‘A Lecture Tour’ | Knut Hamsun
- ‘Cree Queery and Mysy Drolly’ | J M Barrie
- ‘The Lady with the Dog’ | Anton Chekhov
- ‘The Cop and the Anthem’ | O Henry
- ‘The Other Two’ | Edith Wharton
- “Oh Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” | M R James
- ‘Mary Postgate’ | Rudyard Kipling
- ‘The Loaded Dog’ | Henry Lawson
- ‘A Cold Autumn’ | Ivan Bunin
- ‘Sredni Vashtar’ | Saki
- ‘The Bride Comes to the Yellow Sky | Stephen Crane
- ‘Consequences’ | Willa Cather
- ‘The Three Horsemen’ | G K Chesterton
- ‘Mr Know-all’ | W Somerset Maugham
- ‘A Little Ramble’ | Robert Walser
- ‘Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend’ | P G Wodehouse
- ‘Forgotten Dreams’ | Stefan Zweig
- ‘Solid Objects’ | Virginia Woolf
- ‘Eveline’ | James Joyce
- ‘A Hunger Artist’ | Franz Kafka
- ‘The Ring’ | Isak Dinesen
- ‘The Rocking-Horse Winner’ | D H Lawrence
- ‘A Married Man’s Story’ | Katherine Mansfield
- ‘The Fall of the Idol’ | Richmal Crompton
- ‘My First Fee’ | Isaac Babel
- ‘Babylon Revisited’ | F Scott Fitzgerald
- ‘Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote‘ | Jorge Luis Borges
- ‘Sunday Afternoon’ | Elizabeth Bowen
- ‘How to Write a Short Story’ | Sean O’Faolain
- ‘A Family Man’ | V S Pritchett
- ‘Gimpel the Fool’ | Isaac Bashevis Singer
- ‘Guests of the Nation’ | Frank O’Connor
- ‘Love’ | William Maxwell
- ‘Petrified Man’ | Eudora Welty
- ‘The Swimmer’ | John Cheever
- ‘The Blush’ | Elizabeth Taylor
- ‘In Dreams Begin Responsibilities’ | Delmore Schwartz
- ‘Raspberry Jam’ | Angus Wilson
- ‘The Last Mohican’ | Bernard Malamud
- ‘Parson’s Pleasure’ | Roald Dahl
- ‘The Red-Haired Girl’ | Penelope Fitzgerald
- ‘The Lottery’ | Shirley Jackson
- ‘The Executor’ | Muriel Spark
- ‘The Smallest Woman in the World’ | Clarice Lispector
- ‘The Wedding Ring’ | Mavis Gallant
- Old Friends | Shusaku Endo
- ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’ | Flannery O’Connor
- ‘Live Bait’ | Frank Tuohy
- ‘The Pagan Rabbi’ | Cynthia Ozick
- ‘Broken Homes’ | William Trevor
- ‘Dream Cargoes’ | J G Ballard
- ‘The Children Stay’ | Alice Munro
- ‘Under the Rose’ | Julia O’Faolain
- ‘The Wine Breath’ | John McGahern
- ‘ToyFolk’ | Edith Pearlman
- ‘Private Tuition by Mr Bose’ | Anita Desai
- ‘Entropy’ | Thomas Pynchon
- ‘Errand’ | Raymond Carver
- ‘The Dying Room’ | Georgina Hammick
- ‘Lizzie’s Tiger’ | Angela Carter
- ‘At the Beach’ | Bernard MacLaverty
- ‘Report on the Shadow Industry’ | Peter Carey
- ‘The Teacher’s Story’ | Gita Mehta
- ‘Radio Gannet’ | Shena Mackay
- ‘Marriage Lines’ | Julian Barnes
- ‘Solid Geometry’ | Ian McEwan
- ‘Emergency’ | Denis Johnson
- ‘Let Me Count the Times’ | Martin Amis
- ‘Cun’ | Nguyen Huy Thiep
- ‘Unseen Translation’ | Kate Atkinson
- ‘D’accord, Baby’ | Hanif Kureishi
- ‘The Tangling Point’ | Tim Parks
- ‘The Cold Outside’ | John Burnside
- ‘Summer of ’38’ | Colm Tóibín
- ‘Two Boys’ | Lorrie Moore
- ‘Boner McParlin’s Moll’ | Tim Winton
- ‘The Wavemaker Falters’ | George Saunders
- ‘A Real Doll’ | A M Homes
- ‘The Toymaker and his Wife’ | Joanne Harris
- ‘Marching Songs’ | Keith Ridgway
- ‘Mixed Breeding’ | Nicola Barker
- ‘Beauty’s Sister’ | James Bradley
- ‘Nothing Visible’ | Siddhartha Deb
- ‘The Deep’ | Anthony Doerr
- ‘The Thing Around Your Neck’ | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- ‘The Index’ | J G Ballard