Have any authors ever written a great short story and then expanded

>>9566137
No, it's never been done before.

mrs dalloway
under the volcano
probably a bajillion others

>>9566137
Hey thats my idea..

>>9566137
Ender's Game.

>>9566712
What's its endgame?

>>9566137
The prologue to Underworld was originally published as a short story called Pafko At the Wall

flowers for algernon

>>9566137
Can't think of any but District 9 was originally a short film.

>>9566137
Felix krull by Mann

Frankenstein

>>9566137
Roald Dahl's Oswald Cornelius started out as a couple of short stories before becoming a novel.

I wouldn't really call it "great" though. I mean it's really good, but it's not like it influenced half the world or anything.

>>9568107
He did that a lot. Danny The Champion was a short story too.

>>9566162
>under the volcano
Ha! I knew it.

>>9566137
iliad

>>9566137
fight club

'Salem's Lot was originally a short story called Jerusalem's Lot.

>>9566137
Ulysses started as what would have been the final short story in Dubliners, Ulysses In Dublin, but Joyce took it out and expanded it into a novel instead