A Treasury of Short Stories

by Bernardine Kielty (Editor)

DJ a little rough around the edges. Book itself is like new.

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction, Classics, Anthologies

849 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1947

Reviews

[James Violand · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful compendium of short stories from every age and every corner of the world. Only the best are here – no confused modernist screed requiring exposition by some authority pushing its hidden value – just good, honest story telling.

[Luke Alexander · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a ride! This was a huge book. It was totally worth the time it took to read every story, with great biographies of each author done by the editor. Kielty did a great job of picking the stories for this anthology and organizing them in a way that allows the themes to flow together for a great experience. I can't even imagine how many stories she read to pick these out! I had to wait to write this review til I could sit down and list my favorite stories. Here they are:

A Passion in the Desert
Our Lady's Juggler
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Germelshausen
The Money Box
The Griffin and the Minor Canon
Sinners
The Beckoning Fair One
The Voice in the Night
I'm a Fool
Some Like Them Cold
Blood Pressure
Night Club
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Sacre du Printemps
Seventy Thousand Assyrians
O'Halloran's Luck
Tom Whipple

Some of the stories in this book totally freaked me out. I mostly listed the ones I found really funny or just cool, a couple of them being creepy but there are far creepier/intenser stories in this book, too. Overall, totally worth it, give it a read if you have the opportunity.

[Lynn Kiesewetter · Rating 5 out of 5]

I appreciated the stories being in chronological order because it gave me a new understanding of how writing styles developed over that 100 or so years mid 1800s to mid 1900s. Some of the early ones were so archaic, both in subject matter and style. Even insights into personality and motive were sometimes very dated. I think if you read some of the stories without knowing when they'd been penned, you might be puzzled. The editor did a really nice job writing her brief biographical sketches of each author, which helped put things in context too.
I borrowed this several times from the library and finally finished it- 850 pages. But now I think I'll buy a used copy, they sure are going for cheap....

[Cliff Sinn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I always pull this one out when I am between books. Some of my favorite are Jack London "To Build a Fire", read this story first time in 1960 and have read it several times now. William Hope Hodgson " The Voice in the Night", Sir Arthur Conan Doyle " The Red-Headed League" and so many others. There are a lot of writers that I had not heard of till I started on this Anthology. Damon Runyon " Blood Pressure", and so many more. This is just a taste of what can be found in literature from the 1800 up to the 1947. Give the book a try and you won't be disappointed.

[Juergen John Roscher · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good collection of classic and modern short stories from authors, famous and not so famous, from across the world. Several of the short-stories are some of my favorites:
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
The Read-Headed League - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allen Poe
A Horse in the Sky - Ambrose Pierce
To Build a Fire - Jack London (one of my all-time favorite short stories)
The Mezzotint - M. R. James
Babylon Revisited - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Snows of Kilimanjaro - Ernest Hemingway
Sex Education - Dorothy Canfield
Almos' a Man - Richard Wright

[Steve J · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a fantastic ride. Most of the stories were quite interesting and enjoyable. I had this on my bookshelf for years. I’m glad I had the foresight to read it. Excellent.

[Melissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loooove short stories! This book has 849 pages! I'm gonna be busy for days! I never read short story collections/anthologies in order. What's great about this book, in the contents, it has a line from the story underneath the title. So based on that line, I pick which story I'm gonna read.

I read five stories so far: A Telephone Call (by Dorothy Parker -- in my head I hear Prince singing "Dorthy Parker, Dorothy Parker..."), Yermolai and the Miller's Wife (by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev), The Hiltons' Holiday (by Sarah Orne Jewett -- I like her style),Sex Education (by Dorothy Canfield) and Saturday Afternoon (by Erskine Caldwell).

Eudora Welty and Katherine Mansfield are in here, too! My favorite writers. And Chekov.

[My Bookish Delights]

I just couldn't get into these stories... maybe try again some other day.