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Excellent list, thank you all. I'll put this in my "save" file. No short story collection would be complete without mentioning a few of the great Russian writers. The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories is excellent. I meant to read just one and ended up reading the whole book. Title story available on line in pdf. If you have a modern sensibility and enjoy the terse short sentences of Vonnegut, you might not make it through the first paragraph of the Russians. I'm glad I did though. After seeing a powerful movie called The Namesake, I had to read Gogol's short story, "The Overcoat." To complete my triumverate of Russian short stories, read "The Lady with the Dog" by Chekhov.