Passion: An Anthology of the World's Great Short Stories

Passion, An Anthology of World's Great Short Stories by Cyberwit.net, India, pp. 272 features 73 short stories full of invention, imagination and originality. The stories communicate an idea or impression, which will certainly engage the reader's attention from the first to the last. The authors have succeeded in depicting one character's inner conflict or conflict with others, usually having one thematic focus. These short stories employ complex techniques to depict the often-unresolvable dilemmas of the human predicament. Some of the major themes in Passion are human isolation, alienation, and personal trauma, such as anxiety; love and hate; male-female relationships; family and the conflict of generations; initiation from innocence to experience; friendship and brotherhood; illusion and reality; self-delusion and self-discovery; the individual in conflict with society's institutions; mortality; spiritual struggles. Passion contains some of the finest short stories in English, written by authors from USA, UK, Canada, Netherlands, Australia, Germany, Romania, Uganda, Ukraine, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, India etc. Passion is brought to a brilliant close with an assiduously compiled 7 page section providing biographical notes on each of the included writers.