100 Greatest Short Stories app for iPhone and iPad

4.0 ( 2220 ratings )

Education Book
Developer: Rampart Software Development

1.99 USD

Current version: 2.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 22 Sep 2009
App size: 2.82 Mb

* New version includes bonus classic short stories
* Featured by Apple in "New and Noteworthy"
* "...Fantastic story choices..." - The James Reader

Now you can enjoy these "byte-sized" masterpieces any time and anywhere with the "100 Greatest Short Stories." A timeless collection of the worlds greatest short stories, it contains works by authors such as, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Conrad and Arthur Conan Doyle, and includes such classics as, "The Monkeys Paw," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "Heart of Darkness," "The Gift of the Magi," "The Ransom of Red Chief," and "The Last Leaf." The "100 Greatest Short Stories" will keep you reading well past your bedtime.

Included in the "100 Greatest Short Stories" are:

- A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf
- A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac
- A Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker
- An Agacella Or by Rex Stout
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
- Beware of the Dog by Roald Dahl
- Eva Is Inside Her Cat by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Eyes of a Blue Dog by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- In the Red Room by Paul Bowles
- Leiningen versus the Ants by Carl Stephenson
- Mrs. Packletides Tiger by Saki
- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling
- Rocking-Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence
- The Case of Lady Sannox by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Death Of Halpin Frayser by Ambrose Bierce
- The Door in the Wall by H. G. Wells
- The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
- The Last Leaf by O. Henry
- The Monkeys Paw by W. W. Jacobs
- The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
- The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry
- The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams
- AND 75 MORE!

Reviews:
"Really great collection of short stories. Theyve got some of my favorites, and some stories Ive always wanted to get around to reading. Outstanding collection."
R. Gilbert
Alexandria, VA

Pros and cons of 100 Greatest Short Stories app for iPhone and iPad

100 Greatest Short Stories app good for

Scrolling does not work well while reading the stories. I have to try a few times before it responds. It is kind of annoying otherwise the stories are great.

I buy every short story collection app I can find, and I love this one above all. The stories are carefully chosen -- not just everything and anything with an expired copyright that can be found. And the interface is wonderful, facile, easy to read. As with the story choice, everything seems to have been thought about carefully: the layout, the typeface.

Extremely high quality short story collection that is very easy to read. Highly recommended!

It is in fact a good collection, with a few stories everyone read in high school from Poe, but a good collection of AC Doyle adventures that I am unfamiliar with, but may make entertaining reading. My main impression is that the formating of the text is good, with a good bookmark functionality, but a very basic reader interface without any of the niceties like paging aids. To read, you drag the text rather than the usual tapping screen sides, top or bottom to move to the next body of text. That wears on me, but Ill probably read a few books in the collection anyway.

Some bad moments

Ive just started using this app- great list of stories but text is one long file in which you scroll to new text by dragging top to bottom. Every time you finish a page and scroll up you have to determine which line you last read as it will probably not be the one at the top of the page. This requirement is very distracting when youre trying to read through quickly. This app needs to incorporate the finger swipe page turning feature. This turns short stories into not so short reads.

Thought it was just a book. Turns out its an app which crashes. A lot. My bad. Caveat emptor

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