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I‘d argue this US and Eurocentric collection is hardly the “world‘s” best. It isn‘t diverse in any way (only 3 of the 20 stories are written by women and there are few authors of color). The stories are definitely canonical and anyone with a large number of English classes in their background will have already read most of these. Full review at http://booknaround.blogspot.com/2022/10/review-worlds-greatest-short-stories.htm...

Ozzie has mostly let Gatsby be my reading companion but he‘s in it for these short stories.

#septphotochallenge today is #shortstories - I don't have many collections of short stories but the few I do, I use again and again as examples of craft & structure in a short format; being able to express emotion/thought in under 100 pages takes skill. #somethingforsept #somethingforseptember