The Masterpieces of World Fiction series brings together the best-loved short stories by the great masters of the genre - from Chekov and Maupassant, Kipling and Wilde, to O. Henry and Saki and Tolstoy and Conrad. Thoughtfully compiled by the bestselling author Terry O' Brien, this series is a great way for readers to revisit old favourites and for introducing literary masterpieces to newer, younger readers

Table of Contents:
1) The Hunger of Stones - Rabindranath Tagore (Translated from the Bengali by Amitav Ghosh); 2)The Shroud - Munshi Premchand (Translated from the Hindi by Arshia Sattar); 3) A Horse and Two Goats - R.K. Narayan; 4) A Life - Buddhadeva Bose (Translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha); 5) Toba Tek Singh - Saadat Hasan Manto (Translated from the Urdu by Khushwant Singh); 6) The Flood - Thakazhi S. Pillai (Translated from the Malayalam by O.V. Usha); 7) The Blue Light - Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (Translated from the Malayalam by O.V. Usha); 8) The Somersault - Gopinath Mohanty (Translated from the Oriya by Sitakant Mahapatra); 9) Portrait of a Lady - Khushwant Singh; 10) Quilt 2 - Ismat Chughtai (Translated from the Hindi by Rakhshanda Jalil); 11) Stench of Kerosene – Amrita Pritam (Translated from the Punjabi by Khushwant Singh); 12) Gold from the Grave - Anna Bhau Sathe (Translated from the Marathi by Vernon Gonsalves); 13) The Man Who Saw God - D.B.G. Tilak (Translated from the Telugu by Ranga Rao); 14) Inspector Matadeen on the Moon - Harishankar Parsai (Translated from the Hindi by C.M. Naim); 15) Draupadi - Mahasweta Devi (Translated from the Bengali by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak); 16) Countless Hitlers - Vijaydan Detha (Translated from the Rajasthani by Christi A. Merrill and Kailash Kabir); 17) Mirror of Illusion - Nirmal Verma (Translated from the Hindi by Geeta Kapur); 18) Reflowering - Sundara Ramaswamy (Translated from the Tamil by S. Krishnan); 19) Mouni - U.R. Ananthamurthy (Translated from the Kannada by H. Y. Sharada Prasad); 20) Old Cypress - Nisha da Cunha; 21) The Blue Umbrella - Ruskin Bond 3; 22) Crossing the Ravi – Gulzar ( Translated from the Urdu by Rakhshanda Jalil; 23) Games at Twilight - Anita Desai; 24) A Revolt of the Gods - Vilas Sarang (Translated from the Marathi by the author); 25) In a Forest, a Deer – Ambai (Translated from the Tamil by Lakshmi Holmstrom); 26) Bhaskara Pattelar and My Life - Paul Zacharia (Translated from the Malayalam by Gita Krishnankutty); 27) Tar Arrives - Devanoora Mahadeva (Translated from the Kannada by A.K. Ramanujan and Manu Shetty); 28) Last in First Out - Irwin Allan Sealy); 29) The Elephant and the Tragopan - Vikram Seth; 30) Feast - Manjula Padmanabhan; 31) Nursing God’s Countries - Githa Hariharan; 32) Proposed for Condemnation - Cyrus Mistry; 33) Trying to Discover India - Shashi Tharoor; 34) Desolation - Upamanyu Chatterjee; 35) Kama - Vikram Chandra; 36) Wild Things - Anjum Hasan; 37) Stolen - Amrita Narayan; 38) The Gravestone - Shahnaz Bashir; 39) Elephant at Sea - Kanishk Tharoor