That Glimpse of Truth

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

  1. ‘The Hare and the Tortoise’ | Aesop
  2. ‘The Book of Jonah’ | Anon
  3. ‘The Deceitful Marriage’ | Miguel de Cervantes
  4. ‘The Children of Hamelin’ | The Brothers Grimm
  5. ‘The Red Shoes’ | Hans Christian Anderson
  6. ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ | Edgar Allan Poe
  7. ‘The Nose’ | Nikolai Gogol
  8. ‘The Signal-Man’ | Charles Dickens
  9. ‘A Simple Heart’ | Gustave Flaubert
  10. ‘Desiree’s Baby’ | Kate Chopin
  11. ‘The Horla’ | Guy de Maupassant
  12. ‘The Lagoon’ | Joseph Conrad
  13. ‘Fleet-Footed Hester’ | George Gissing
  14. ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’ | Arthur Conan Doyle
  15. ‘A Lecture Tour’ | Knut Hamsun
  16. ‘Cree Queery and Mysy Drolly’ | J M Barrie
  17. ‘The Lady with the Dog’ | Anton Chekhov
  18. ‘The Cop and the Anthem’ | O Henry
  19. ‘The Other Two’ | Edith Wharton
  20. “Oh Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” | M R James
  21. ‘Mary Postgate’ | Rudyard Kipling
  22. ‘The Loaded Dog’ | Henry Lawson
  23. ‘A Cold Autumn’ | Ivan Bunin
  24. ‘Sredni Vashtar’ | Saki
  25. ‘The Bride Comes to the Yellow Sky | Stephen Crane
  26. ‘Consequences’ | Willa Cather
  27. ‘The Three Horsemen’ | G K Chesterton
  28. ‘Mr Know-all’ | W Somerset Maugham
  29. ‘A Little Ramble’ | Robert Walser
  30. ‘Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend’ | P G Wodehouse
  31. ‘Forgotten Dreams’ | Stefan Zweig
  32. ‘Solid Objects’ | Virginia Woolf
  33. ‘Eveline’ | James Joyce
  34. ‘A Hunger Artist’ | Franz Kafka
  35. ‘The Ring’ | Isak Dinesen
  36. ‘The Rocking-Horse Winner’ | D H Lawrence
  37. ‘A Married Man’s Story’ | Katherine Mansfield
  38. ‘The Fall of the Idol’ | Richmal Crompton
  39. ‘My First Fee’ | Isaac Babel
  40. ‘Babylon Revisited’ | F Scott Fitzgerald
  41. ‘Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote‘ | Jorge Luis Borges
  42. ‘Sunday Afternoon’ | Elizabeth Bowen
  43. ‘How to Write a Short Story’ | Sean O’Faolain
  44. ‘A Family Man’ | V S Pritchett
  45. ‘Gimpel the Fool’ | Isaac Bashevis Singer
  46. ‘Guests of the Nation’ | Frank O’Connor
  47. ‘Love’ | William Maxwell
  48. ‘Petrified Man’ | Eudora Welty
  49. ‘The Swimmer’ | John Cheever
  50. ‘The Blush’ | Elizabeth Taylor
  51. ‘In Dreams Begin Responsibilities’ | Delmore Schwartz
  52. ‘Raspberry Jam’ | Angus Wilson
  53. ‘The Last Mohican’ | Bernard Malamud
  54. ‘Parson’s Pleasure’ | Roald Dahl
  55. ‘The Red-Haired Girl’ | Penelope Fitzgerald
  56. ‘The Lottery’ | Shirley Jackson
  57. ‘The Executor’ | Muriel Spark
  58. ‘The Smallest Woman in the World’ | Clarice Lispector
  59. ‘The Wedding Ring’ | Mavis Gallant
  60. Old Friends | Shusaku Endo
  61. ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’ | Flannery O’Connor
  62. ‘Live Bait’ | Frank Tuohy
  63. ‘The Pagan Rabbi’ | Cynthia Ozick
  64. ‘Broken Homes’ | William Trevor
  65. ‘Dream Cargoes’ | J G Ballard
  66. ‘The Children Stay’ | Alice Munro
  67. ‘Under the Rose’ | Julia O’Faolain
  68. ‘The Wine Breath’ | John McGahern
  69. ‘ToyFolk’ | Edith Pearlman
  70. ‘Private Tuition by Mr Bose’ | Anita Desai
  71. ‘Entropy’ | Thomas Pynchon
  72. ‘Errand’ | Raymond Carver
  73. ‘The Dying Room’ | Georgina Hammick
  74. ‘Lizzie’s Tiger’ | Angela Carter
  75. ‘At the Beach’ | Bernard MacLaverty
  76. ‘Report on the Shadow Industry’ | Peter Carey
  77. ‘The Teacher’s Story’ | Gita Mehta
  78. ‘Radio Gannet’ | Shena Mackay
  79. ‘Marriage Lines’ | Julian Barnes
  80. ‘Solid Geometry’ | Ian McEwan
  81. ‘Emergency’ | Denis Johnson
  82. ‘Let Me Count the Times’ | Martin Amis
  83. ‘Cun’ | Nguyen Huy Thiep
  84. ‘Unseen Translation’ | Kate Atkinson
  85. ‘D’accord, Baby’ | Hanif Kureishi
  86. ‘The Tangling Point’ | Tim Parks
  87. ‘The Cold Outside’ | John Burnside
  88. ‘Summer of ’38’ | Colm Tóibín
  89. ‘Two Boys’ | Lorrie Moore
  90. ‘Boner McParlin’s Moll’ | Tim Winton
  91. ‘The Wavemaker Falters’ | George Saunders
  92. ‘A Real Doll’ | A M Homes
  93. ‘The Toymaker and his Wife’ | Joanne Harris
  94. ‘Marching Songs’ | Keith Ridgway
  95. ‘Mixed Breeding’ | Nicola Barker
  96. ‘Beauty’s Sister’ | James Bradley
  97. ‘Nothing Visible’ | Siddhartha Deb
  98. ‘The Deep’ | Anthony Doerr
  99. ‘The Thing Around Your Neck’ | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  100. ‘The Index’ | J G Ballard