• Publication: 50 Great Short StoriesPublication Record # 248731
• Editor: Milton Crane
• Date: 1952-08-00
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Pub. Series: Bantam Classic
• Price:
  $0.35^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
• Pages: 470
• Format:
  pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes:

  • Month of publication and contents from 39th printing
  • Non-gene anthology, only genre contents listed below
  • "The Shot" translated by T. Keane
  • "Putois" translated by Frederic Chapman
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 52043293
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 1293806
  • Open Library: OL22790460M

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• The Other Side of the Hedge • (1911) • short story by E. M. Forster
• The Courting of Dinah Shadd • (1890) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• The Shot • (1894) • short story by
  Александр Пушкин^?Alexander Pushkin
  (trans. of
  Выстрел^?Vystrel
  1831) [as by Alexander Poushkin]
• Putois • short fiction by Anatole France (trans. of Putois 1904)
• A. V. Laider • (1916) • short story by Max Beerbohm
• The Lottery • (1948) • short story by Shirley Jackson
• The Masque of the Red Death • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Mask of the Red Death 1842)
• The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles • (1946) • short fiction by Edmund Wilson
• The Gioconda Smile • non-genre • (1921) • novelette by Aldous Huxley
• The Curfew Tolls • (1935) • short story by
  Stephen Vincent Benét^?Stephen Vincent Benet
• The Door • (1939) • short story by E. B. White
• A Haunted House • (1921) • short story by Virginia Woolf
• The Catbird Seat • non-genre • (1942) • short story by James Thurber
• The Phoenix • (1940) • short story by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• The Law • (1947) • short story by Robert M. Coates
• The Ghosts • (1908) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• The Minister's Black Veil—A Parable^?The Minister's Black Veil-A Parable
  • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne (variant of The Minister's Black Veil: A Parable 1836)
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles: A Pantoum in Prose • (1898) • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of The Man Who Could Work Miracles)
• Thrawn Janet • (1881) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Chaser • (1940) • short story by John Collier