20. 50 Great Short Stories

Picture retrived from, 23 May,2010: http://www.futurum.dk/student/contents/media/BIG50GreatShortStories.jpg
I was in one of my friends room and i saw a black and small book called 50 Great Stories.
When i started to look inside that, i saw one of our stories called "The Lottery".This was my favorite story, i have already post something about it in here. It was edited by Milton Crane.
When i have read the foreword, something woke up in my mind;

The topic of the foreword was; What makes a great short story?

"The sudden unforgettable revelation of character; the vision of a world through another's eye; the glimpse of truth;the capture of a moment in time.(. . .) It can discover depths of meaning in the casual word or action; it can suggest in a page what could not be stated in volume(. . .)"

To tell the truth, before SU and our ENG 101 and ENG 102, when i read short stories it was making me uncomfortable, i was thinking like "So what?" when the story end. I was expecting like there must be obvious event or it must be like a small part of novel. After we started to interpret this stories i realized that there is a process for reading and understanding short stories. And when you start to learn it this little stories are turning to little treasures , which everbody can find different things inside that :)

Here is the list of this 50 great short stories, i want to read them in the summer. And i am planning to spend one day to one story. First i will interpret by myself, and than i will look internet to see what other people thought about this story,

It will be fun! :D