# Greatest Short Stories (P. F. Collier & Son)

Eight volume set

## Volume 1

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* Author:Washington Irving / Rip Van Winkle (Rip Van Winkle (Irving))
* Author:Edgar Allan Poe / Murders in the Rue Morgue (The Murders in the Rue Morgue)
* Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne / The great stone face (The Great Stone Face)
* Author:Charles Fenno Hoffman / The Man in the Reservoir
* Author:Fitz-James O'Brien / Diamond lens (The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 1/Number 3/The Diamond Lens)
* Author:Edward Everett Hale / Man without a country (The Man without a Country)
* Author:Fitz-Hugh Ludlow / Brace of boys
* Author:John Townsend Trowbridge / Man who stole a meeting-house
* Author:William Henry Harrison Murray / Ride with a mad horse in a freight-car
* Author:Rebecca Harding Davis / Balacchi brothers
* Author:Bayard Taylor / Who was she?
    Based off of Short story classics (American), Volume One (1905), with the addition of "Who was she?"

## Volume 1 (American authors)

    Replaces "The great stone face" and "Brace of boys" with
* Author:Frank R. Stockton / The lady or the tiger (The lady, or the tiger? and other stories/The Lady, or the Tiger?)
* Author:Theodore Dreiser / The lost Phoebe
* Author:Ring Lardner / Haircut

## Volume 2

* Author:Alfred Henry Lewis / How the Raven Died
* Author:John William De Forest / The Brigade Commander
* Author:Augustus Allen Hayes (1837-1892) / The Denver Express
* Author:Charles Heber Clark as Max Adeler / Frictional Electricity
* Author:Frank R. Stockton / My Terminal Moraine
* Author:Lorimer Stoddard / The Indian's Hand
* Author:Elia W. Peattie / A Michigan Man
* W. C. Morrow (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7945392) / The Inmate of the Dungeon
* Author:Harold Frederic / Brother Sebastian's Friendship
* Author:Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen / Good-For-Nothing
* Author:Ambrose Bierce / The Damned Thing (The Damned Thing)
* Clara Morris / The Wild Horse of Tartary
* Edwin Lefevre / The Tipster
* James Oliver Curwood / Thomas Jefferson Brown

## Volume 2 (American authors)

    Drop Lewis, Adeler, Stoddard, Peattie, Morrow, Frederic, Boyesen, Morris, Lefevre, Curwood
* Stephen Crane / An Experiment in Misery
* Nathaniel Hawthorne / The Ambitious Guest
* Edgar Allen Poe / The Gold Bug
* Bret Harte / The Luck of Roaring Camp
* Thomas Bailey Aldrich / Marjorie Daw
* Edna Ferber / They Brought their Women
* Dorthy Parker / Big Blonde

## Volume 3

* O. Henry / Phonograph and the graft
* Harris / Brother rabbit's cradle
* Altsheler / After the battle
* Deland / "Many waters"
* Ade / "To make a Hoosier holiday"
* Kelly / Christmas present for a lady
* Grant / Against his judgment
* Long / Purple-eyes
* Spearman / Run of the yellow mail
* Colton / Spiral stone
* Roberts / Jean Michaud's little ship
* Kingsley / At the end of his rope
* Tracy / Lotus eaters
* Harland / Rosemary for remembrance
* Adams / Such as walk in darkness
* Finnegan / Out of the storm

## Volume 4

* Tarkington / Mrs. Protheroe
* Spears / Silver Lake panic
* Cutting / Happiest time
* Rives / In the wake of war
* Sawyer / Tall one and the wee one
* Roberts / Captain Pike
* Dunne / Mr. Dooley on the pursuit of riches
* MacCreagh / Everett, Commissioner of Justice
* Meedham / Polite horse
* Newton / Charge
* Boltwood / Wedding Bob Dean ran
* Curwood / His first penitent
* Douglas / Unseen hands
* Scoville / Churching of Bankson
* Lathrop / In each other's shoes
* Friedman / Return
* Wells / Bondage

## Volume 5

* Nordau / Deliverance
* Lagerlof / Outlaws
* Castelnuovo / Lost letter
* Teleshov / Duel
* Dumas, Fils / Hanging at La Piroche
* von Riehl / Castle Neideck
* Chekhov / Work of art
* Maupassant / Bit of string
* Doyle / Scandal in Bohemia
* Strindberg / Love and bread
* Stevenson / Suicide club
* Baumbach / Fountain of youth
* Gorki / Boless --Fogazzaro / Silver crucifix
* Gautier / Mummy's foot
* D'Annunzio / End of Candia
* Scribe / Price of a life

## Volume 6

* Gaboriau / Accursed house
* Gogol / Cloak
* Verga / Cavalleria Rusticana
* Bjornson / Railroad and churchyard
* Janin / Vendean marriage
* Heyse / Young girl of Treppi
* Stevenson / Sire de Maletroit's door
* Dostoievski / Thief
* Sacher-Masoch / Thou shalt not kill
* Musset / Beauty spot
* Sudermann / A New-Year's Eve confession
* de Amicis / Drummer
* Tolstoi / Long exile
* Reuter / Bric-a-brac and destinies.

## Volume 7

* Poushkin / Queen of spades
* Balzac / Unknown masterpiece
* Doyle / My friend the murderer
* Schnitzler / Dead are silent
* Merimee / How the redoubt was taken
* Chekhov / Slanderer
* Chatrian / Dean's watch
* Zschokke / Broken cup
* About / Which was the madman?
* Turgenev / Rendezvous
* Victor / Napoleon and Pope Pius VII
* Andreiev / Valia
* Coppee / Lost child
* Kipling / Man who would be king

## Volume 8

* Kipling / Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney
* Maupassant / Necklace
* Garshin / Signal
* France / Putois
* Barrie / Courting of T'nowhead's Bell
* Eschstruth / Gray nun
* Huysmans / Sac-au-dos
* Quiller-Couch / Roll-call of the reef
* Niese / Story of the little Mamsell
* Dumas / A Bal Masque
* Wells / Red room
* Zola / Fete at Coqueville
* Wildenbruch / Good blood
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