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The short story

Written By: amodini - Nov• 16•05

I’ve been reading short stories lately, and here are links to a few famous ones online :

The diamond necklace (Guy de Maupassant)
Hills like white elephants (Hemingway)
A clean well-lighted place (Hemingway)
A good man is hard to find (Flannery O’Connor)
The open window (H.H.Munro)

I haven’t been able to find “Cathedral” (Raymond Carver) online. Out of the above, “The diamond necklace” is my absolute favorite. I’d read it many years ago in a volume of Maupassant’s collected short stories, and the online one seems to have slightly different language. Nonetheless, the story loses none of it’s impact.

Some good links to read more short stories on the net are :

Classic Reader Website
Storyglossia website
East of the Web

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One Comment

  1. GP Nerd says:

    I am glad you found the Storyglossia website! Steven’s blogs on Carver is something he is very proud of!