# International Short Stories

International Short Stories is a three-volume anthology of outstanding English, American, and French short stories and novellae of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. It was published by P.F. Collier & Son in 1910. The first volume features celebrated short fiction from the United States, the second volume of England, and the third of France (translated into English). The three-volume series was compiled by Frances J. Reynolds, and edited by William Patten.

## Contents
### Volume I: American

* "The Prophetic Pictures" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
* "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving
* "The Gold-Bug" by Edgar Allan Poe
* "Corporal Flint's Murder" by James Fenimore Cooper
* "Uncle Jim and Uncle Billy" by Bret Harte
* "The Notary of Perigueux" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
* "The Widow's Cruise" by Frank R. Stockton
* "The Count and the Wedding Guest" by O. Henry
* "Miss Tooker's Wedding Gift" by John Kendrick Bangs
* "The Fable of the Two Mandolin Players and the Willing Performer" by George Ade
* "The Fable of the Preacher Who Flew His Kite, But Not Because He Wished to Do So" by George Ade
* "The Shadows on the Wall" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
* "Major Perdue's Bargain" by Joel Chandler Harris
* "A Kentucky Cinderella" by Francis Hopkinson Smith
* "By the Waters of Paradise" by Francis Marion Crawford
* "A Memorable Night" by Anna Katharine Green
* "The Man from Red Dog" by Alfred Henry Lewis
* "Jean Michaud's Little Ship" by Charles G.D. Roberts
* "Those Old Lunes!" by William Gilmore Simms
* "The Chiropodist" by Bayard Taylor
* "Mr. Dooley on Corporal Punishment" by Finley Peter Dunne
* "Over a Wood Fire" by Ik Marvel

### Volume II: English

* "The Two Drovers" by Sir Walter Scott
* "Mr. Deuceace" by William Makepeace Thackeray
* "The Brothers" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
* "Doctor Manette's Manuscript" by Charles Dickens
* "The Caldron of Oil" by Wilkie Collins
* "The Burial of the Tithe" by Samuel Lover
* "The Knightsbridge Mystery" by Charles Reade
* "The Courting of Dinah Shadd" by Rudyard Kipling
* "The Sire de Maletroit's Door" by Robert Louis Stevenson
* "The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange" by Arthur Conan Doyle
* "A Change of Treatment" by W. W. Jacobs
* "The Stickit Minister" by Samuel Rutherford Crockett
* "The Lammas Preaching" by Samuel Rutherford Crockett
* "An Undergraduate's Aunt" by F. Anstey
* "The Silhouettes" by Arthur Quiller-Couch
* "My Brother Henry" by J. M. Barrie
* "Gilray's Flower Pot" by J. M. Barrie
* "Mr. O'Leary's Second Love" by Charles Lever
* "The Indifference of the Miller of Hofbau" by Anthony Hope Hawkins
* "The Stolen Body" by H. G. Wells
* "The Lazarette of the 'Huntress'" by William Clark Russell
* "The Great Triangular Duel" by Frederick Marryat
* "Three Thimbles and a Pea" by George Borrow

### Volume III: French

* "A Piece of Bread" by François Coppée
* "The Elixir of Life" by Honoré de Balzac
* "The Age for Love" by Paul Bourget
* "Mateo Falcone" by Prosper Mérimée
* "The Mirror" by Catulle Mendès
* "My Nephew Joseph" by Ludovic Halévy
* "A Forest Betrothal" by Erckmann-Chatrian
* Zadig the Babylonian by Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
* "Abandoned" by Guy de Maupassant
* "The Guilty Secret" by Charles Paul de Kock
* "Jean Monette" by Eugène François Vidocq
* "Solange" by Alexandre Dumas
* "The Birds in the Letter-box" by René Bazin
* "Jean Gourdon's Four Days" by Émile Zola
* "Baron de Trenck" by Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert
* "The Passage of the Red Sea" by Henry Murger
* "The Woman and the Cat" by Marcel Prévost
* "Gil Blas and Dr. Sangrado" by Alain-René Lesage
* "A Fight with a Cannon" by Victor Hugo
* "Tonton" by Adolphe Chenevière
* "The Last Lesson" by Alphonse Daudet
* "Croisilles" by Alfred de Musset
* "The Vase of Clay" by Jean Aicard