1.Λαμπριάτικος Ψάλτης
Αλέξανδρος Παπαδιαμάντης, 1912
A priest waits for a helper on Easter night in a crumbling chapel above the sea, while a stranded elder takes the wrong path in the moonlight.
10 Greek short-story collections
These stories share a coastal ache and a dry, forgiving humour: priests, sailors, clerks and villagers caught between duty and desire, told with an eye for small details. Try «Λόγια της Πλώρης», where sea tales carry the weight of folk belief, or «Η Παντρειά της Σταλαχτής», a Corfu story of honour and village gossip that stays with you.
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2.Επτά συν μία ιστορίες για ένα κορίτσι
Νικολετα Καπιλλα, 2020
A sixteen-year-old girl is not allowed to grow her hair. Eight linked stories about a family, a pair of scissors, and the small rebellions that make a person.
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3.Η Παντρειά της Σταλαχτής
Κωνσταντίνος Θεοτόκης, 1912
On the threshing floor and in the vineyards of old Corfu, a young woman's honour is staked against a rich man's promise, and the village watches.
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4.Ο Μοσκώβ-Σελήμ
Γεώργιος Βιζυηνός, 1895
A curious traveller meets an Ottoman soldier in a Thracian meadow who describes himself as the Moscow-Selim — a man who fought Russians, loved one, and borrowed a life he could not keep.
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5.Λόγια της Πλώρης
Ανδρέας Καρκαβίτσας, 1899
Sailors, sponge-divers and captains tell of the sea's justice, its monsters and its dead, in stories that turn folk belief into salt-stung literature.
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6.Απομνημονεύματα Μακρυγιάννη
Ιωάννης Βλαχογιάννης, 1907
A rough soldier of the revolution turns his eye and his pen on the men who took the credit and the salaries, and names them one by one.
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7.Πάρεργα (πρόλογος)
Εμμανουήλ Ροΐδης, 1893
Why one writer would rather read Spencer than write a page: a comic, sharp argument against Greece's language split.
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8.Η εσπερίς του κυρίου Σουσαμάκη
Άγγελος Βλάχος, 1893
An Athenian clerk marries a rich bride with one eye fewer and fifteen years more, and plans a tea party. A comedy of dowries, vanity and domestic war.
Ὁ Κύριος Σουσαμάκης, ὑπάλληλος τοῦ γραφείου ὅπερ διευθύνει ὁ κύριος Παρδαλός, ἐνυμφεύθη πρό τινων μηνῶν, τῇ ἀγαθῇ συμπράξει τοῦ προϊσταμένου του, πλουσίαν τινα νύμφην ἐκ Πατρῶν, ἔχουσαν μὲν ἕνα ὀφθαλμὸν ὀλιγώτερον αὐτοῦ, ἀλλ’ εἰς ἀποζημίωσιν τοῦ ἐλλείποντος ὀφθαλμοῦ δεκαπέντε ἔτη ἡλικίας περισσότερα, καὶ εἰς ἀποζημίωσιν τῶν περισσευόντων δεκαπέντε ἐτῶν τριάκοντα πέντε χιλιάδας δραχμῶν προῖκα.
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9.Διηγήματα
Παύλος Νιρβάνας, 1930
Stories of insulted lovers, wounded sparrows and houses that outlive their owners, written by a doctor who watched people closely and forgave them laughing.
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10.Η Ναϊάς
Αλέξανδρος Ρίζος Ραγκαβής, 1879
A Greek naval adventure about a slave ship, an idealist clerk, and the rebellion of the men packed below deck. A lively, dark yarn from the nineteenth century.
Ἐν τῷ ἅμα οἱ ναῦται, ἐξάγοντες τῆς λέμβου μακρὰ ξύλα διαιρούμενα δίχα κατὰ τὸ μῆκός των, καὶ ἔχοντα τρύπας κατὰ ἕνα πόδα ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων ἀφισταμένας, ἐπέρων καὶ ἐνέκλειον εἰς τὰς τρύπας ἑκάστου τοὺς λαιμοὺς ὀκτὼ ἢ δέκα δυστυχῶν μαύρων· ἕκαστος δὲ ναύτης, λαμβάνων εἰς τὸν ὦμόν του τὴν ἄκραν ἑνὸς τῶν παραδόξων τούτων ζυγῶν, ἔσυρε κατόπιν του τὴν τοιαύτην τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀγέλην.
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