The World's Greatest Short Stories is a collection of short-stories from the 19th and 20th century's greatest story tellers. Numerous short stories by several authors such as Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Alexander Pushkin, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mulk Raj Anand and many more reputed authors are included in this book. The stories cover a broad range of cultures, settings and topics, including classic literature from the intriguing to the touching ones. Thus providing the readers an opportunity to get to know short narrative traditions from very different places in the world.