Reviews for Short Story Masterpieces

The average rating for Short Story Masterpieces based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-10-20 00:00:00 Devin Steele So, folks, I'm trough !! Excellent collection of short stories. One of my favourites was "The Flight" by Steinbeck. You have here a variety of topics intertwined in the human experience. I liked how the stories unfolded and the fact that it compels you to linger and think about. I loved all the stories, and they for sure have changed me in different ways, I won't give nobody some spoiler, who want to read this collection. Maybe I should say that I had the impression during my reading experience, these stories comes to you like flash of light full of life. So, I catch myself pondering about the stories and having the "Aha" revelation as the thru dropped with a rattle in my consciousness. I recommend these collection of short stories with 5 stars, and I love this stories each of them. So, enjoy and plunge into it. You will not regret it.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-03-25 00:00:00 Christoper Freeman As this was published in 1954, I knew going into it that it would pretty much be dominated by white men. In the end I counted 8 out of 36 stories by women, and I'm fairly certain every author included was white (some of the authors I was unfamiliar with, but I would highly doubt I'm wrong in this). Now. Most of the stories included here were written fairly early in the last century, and so none of this was a surprise. It doesn't lessen any of the stories, but I do feel that the subject matter and tone of the stories fell into just a few narrow categories, and it was disappointing that these few styles were apparently all that constituted "masterpieces" in the eyes of readers in the 50s. There were some gritty Westerns about becoming a Man on the frontier. There were tales of ennui and bitter marriages, and subsequent divorces. There were tales about African colonialism dripping with unveiled racism. And there were tales about boys with Mommy complexes. And that was pretty much it. There were some really worth while things here. But the bulk of the collection, in my eyes, has not stood up well to time. My favorites were the Cheever, the Faulkner, the D.H. Lawrence, the Welty, and, oddly enough, the Salinger (I've never been a big Salinger fan, but the story included stuck me for some reason). It's a good choice to get an overview of early 20th century literature, but thankfully these stories are no longer representative of the whole of worthy literature.