The World\'s Greatest Short Stories : Paperback : Dover Publications Inc. : 9780486447162 : 0486447162 : 28 Jul 2006 : Wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable, this outstanding collection features short stories by great 19- and 20th-century writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe. Included are Hemingway\'s \"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,\" in which two waiters and a lonely customer in a Spanish cafe confront the concept of nothingness; \"A & P,\" John Updike\'s most anthologized story and one of his most popular; \"Borges and I,\" typical Jorge Luis Borges &; imaginative, philosophical, ...