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There are some really, really amazing stories in this collection. This is part of a series called the "Gateway to the Great Books" which is an add-on to the "Great Books of the Western World". The "Gateway" contains shorts works instead of the longer works of the "Great Books" series. This specific book contains short stories, and they come from the most eminent authors around. My favorite stories were "The Apple-Tree" by John Galsworthy (an amazing love story), "First Love" by Ivan Turgenev (th...
This heavy tome contains exemplary works from a selected set of authors. As a first read, I focused on authors that I have not yet read and would like to explore their styles and contents for further closer read. I have found that Isaac B. Singer a great story teller with a brisk and lively pace, exploring philosophic ideas and human conditions in his "The Spinoza of Market Street" (I reviewed fully elsewhere), Ivan Bunin with his more elaborate yet still lively depiction of life and its catastr...
There is a presumption in the certainty of the sagacity the editor believes these stories represent and he knows that his ethos, pathos and mythos is superior because it is his and his identity is clearly the only identity worth having. That paradox inherent within these selections is what makes these selections marvelous as a whole. I want to note a couple of points from these stories in particular Mario and the Magician by Thomas Mann was clearly chosen to highlight the dangers of a charismati...
