50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world's finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O'Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common—the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world's fiction. Google英譯中： 《五十篇偉大短篇小說》精選了世界最優秀的短篇小說。收錄的作家包括霍桑、莫泊桑、愛倫·坡，亨利·詹姆斯、康拉德、奧爾德斯·赫胥黎、詹姆斯·喬伊斯，以及海明威、凱瑟琳·安妮·波特、福克納、E·B·懷特、薩洛揚和奧康納。這些作品風格和主題豐富多樣，但都擁有一個共同點——歷久不衰的文學價值，使它們躋身世界文學傑作之列。