Short Story Masterpiece

21 books

World Literature Library · American Classics Series: The Snows of Kilimanjaro (Full-Color Illustrated Edition) cover
Rating 4.7
World Literature Library · American Classics Series: The Snows of Kilimanjaro (Full-Color Illustrated Edition) Ernest Miller Hemingway / 袁书平 · 2026 "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" collects several short stories by Hemingway, including "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," "The Kill…
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Rating 4.0
Melancholy Bomb 梶井基次郎 / 解璞 / Chen Guangui Beijing Times Chinese Press · 2022 This collection includes ten short stories, among them "Lemon" and "Under the Cherry Trees." The protagonist of each work is a stand-in for the author…
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Rating 3.9
Clarkesworld: Second Collection 张冉 / 微像文化 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 A selection of fine foreign science fiction from a well-known science fiction magazine, featuring several Hugo Award-style works exploring humanity an…
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Rating 4.3
The Third Bank of the River 若昂·吉马良斯·罗萨 / 游雨频 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2025 Widely read in China is Rosas short story The Third Bank of the River, a work that has profoundly influenced generations of Chinese writers and was li…
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Rating 4.0
Would You Like a Fruit Tart? 小林泰三 / 烨伊 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 A collection of chilling suspense short stories by Yasumi Kobayashi, Nebula Award winner and master of science fiction. The ultimate twist! This book …
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Rating 4.6
Rashomon Ryūnosuke Akutagawa / Lu Xun / 罗松涛 Guizhou People's Publishing House · 2023 This book is a representative masterpiece of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, the leading short-story writer of Japan's Taisho era, collecting nineteen representa…
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Rating 4.7
The Man in the Case: Collected Short Stories of Chekhov 安东·帕夫洛维奇·契诃夫 / 艾欣 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2022 This collection fully includes Chekhov's classic stories as a "master of the modern short story," such as "The Man in the Case," "The Chameleon," and …
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Rating 4.6
Hell Screen Ryūnosuke Akutagawa / 高文 民主与建设出版社 · 2021 This book collects 11 short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, and representative works such as Hell Screen express the life tragedy of a lonely individu…
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Rating 4.6
Rashomon Ryūnosuke Akutagawa / 竺家荣 Cultural Development Press Co. Ltd. · 2020 Building on Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's undisputed masterpieces "Rashōmon" and "In a Grove," this volume also collects the brilliant literary gems of his ea…
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Rating 4.7
White Nights and Other Stories Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
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Rating 3.2
We're Friends, Now Henry Louis Hasse Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
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Rating 3.3
The Crows Rosny, J.-H., aîné, 1856-1940 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
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Rating 3.5
Clarimonde Gautier, Théophile, 1811-1872 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
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Rating 4.2
Three short works Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
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Rating 4.0
A Son of the Gods, and A Horseman in the Sky Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
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Rating 4.5
Rashomon Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Jilin Publishing Group Co., Ltd. · 2019 Beyond the Rashomon gate, deep in the bamboo grove; they take by force, self-righteously; they weave lies for their own desires. Cloaked in the garb o…
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Rating 4.7
Rashomon (Zhangyue Classics) Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2019 Rashomon tells the story of a dismissed servant and an old woman who is also a robber, both facing a life-or-death choice, and of how “evil overcoming…
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Rating 4.4
Japanese Literary Masterpieces Series: Rashomon (Japanese Edition) Ryūnosuke Akutagawa East China University of Science and Technology Press · 2018 "Rashomon" is Akutagawa Ryūnosuke's true literary debut. In this work the author fixes a nihilistic gaze on the incurable dark side of human nature; w…
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Rating 4.5
Rashomon Ryūnosuke Akutagawa / 希年 Northern Literature and Art Publishing House (Beifang Wenyi Chubanshe) · 2017 With an airtight structure, *Rashomon* drives its characters to the extreme of a life-or-death choice, thereby exposing the inescapability of "evil" a…
Prelude to the Future: Selected Masterpieces of 21st-Century Science Fiction (Two Volumes) cover
Rating 4.2
Prelude to the Future: Selected Masterpieces of 21st-Century Science Fiction (Two Volumes) 刘宇昆 / 保罗·巴奇加卢皮 / 戴维·哈特威尔 / 帕特里克·海登 New Star Press · 2017 The Future Overture: A Selection of 21st-Century Science Fiction Masterworks (Two Volumes) is the most authoritative anthology of short science fictio…