Best of
Short-Stories

1930

The Continental Op


Dashiell Hammett - 1930
    The Continental Op was his great first contribution to the genre and these seven stories, which first appeared in the magazine Black Mask, are the best examples of Hammett's early writing, in which his formidable literary and moral imagination is already operating at full strength. The Continental Op is the dispassionate fat man working for the Continental Detective Agency, modelled on the Pinkerton Agency, whose only interest is in doing his job in a world of violence, passion, desperate action and great excitement.The tenth clew.--The golden horseshoe.--The house in Turk Street.--The girl with the silver eyes.--The whosis kid.--The main death.--The farewell murder.

The Collected Short Stories of Saki


Saki - 1930
    Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried. This collection includes Sredni Vastar and The Unrest Cure. 'We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart'[Description from back cover]

A Rose for Emily and Other Stories


William Faulkner - 1930
    Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the family has fallen on hard times.

Street Haunting


Virginia Woolf - 1930
    Six short stories and / or essays, extracted from The Crowded Dance of Modern Life (1993) and Selected Short Stories (1993).

On Forsyte 'Change


John Galsworthy - 1930
    Galsworthy states in a foreword that "They have all been written since Swan Song was finished but in place they come between the Saga and the Comedy…" By way of explanation he says that "It is hard to part suddenly and finally from those with whom one has lived so long; and these footnotes do really, I think, help to fill in and round out the chronicles of the Forsyte family".Contents:The Buckles of Superior Dosset, 1821-1863 Sands of Time, 1821-1863 Hester's Little Tour, 1845 Timothy's Narrow Squeak, 1851 Aunt Juley's Courtship, 1855 Nicholas Rex, 1864 A Sad Affair, 1867 Revolt at Roger's, 1870 June's First Lame Duck, 1876 Dog at Timothy's, 1878 Midsummer Madness, 1880 The Hondekoeter, 1880 Cry of Peacock, 1883 Francie's Fourpenny Foreigner, 1888 Four-In-Hand Forsyte, 1890 The Sorrows of Tweetyman, 1895 The Dromios, 1900 A Forsyte Encounters the People, 1917 Soames and the Flag, 1914-1918

The Companion - a Miss Marple Short Story


Agatha Christie - 1930
    Lloyd recalls some strange events for the Tuesday Night Club (in reality, it's successor group!). First there was a tragedy which occurred when he was practicing in the Canary Islands - a death by drowning which he had witnessed, and years later, a suicide in a small English village which mimicked the earlier event. He asks the members, "Was anything criminal involved?"Librarian's note: this entry relates to the short story, "The Companion." Collections and the other stories by the author are located elsewhere on Goodreads. The Miss Marple series includes twelve novels and 20 short stories. Entries for the short stories can be found by searching Goodreads for: "a Miss Marple Short Story."

Great Short Stories by American Women


Candace Ward - 1930
    The earliest stories are Rebecca Harding Davis' naturalistic "Life in the Iron Mills" (published in 1861 and predating Émile Zola's Germinal by almost 25 years) and Louisa May Alcott's semiautobiographical tale "Transcendental Wild Oats" (1873). The most recent ones are Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," an ironic tale of contested loyalty.In between is a grand cavalcade of superbly crafted fiction by Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Djuna Barnes, Susan Glaspell and Edith Wharton. Brief biographies of each of the writers are included.

Laments for the Living, Collected Stories


Dorothy Parker - 1930
    

The Treasurer's Report: And Other Aspects of Community Singing


Robert Benchley - 1930
    

Experts Are Puzzled


Laura Riding - 1930
    In essayistic examinations such as the titular piece, “Introduction to a Book on Money,” and “An Address to America,” Riding seeks to articulate a higher, more poetic notion of truth and truth telling. As such, Experts Are Puzzled stands as an essential text for understanding why Riding came to reject poetry in the late 1930s. While excerpts and selections from Experts have been published before, most notably in Riding’s Progress of Stories, the entirety of the collection has not appeared in print since its initial publication by Jonathan Cape in 1930.