The book of the short story
By: ed. by Alexander Jessup ... and Henry Seidel Canby ...
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company
Published: 1903
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 507
Subjects: Short stories
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: The shipwrecked sailor. About 2500 B.C.; title: The book of Ruth. About 450 B.C.; title: Apuleius. The story of Cupid and Psyche. 2d century A.D.; title: Boccaccio. Frederick of the Alberighi and his falcon. 1353.; title: The story of Ali Baba, and the forty robbers destroyed by a slave. 1548.; title: Cervantes. The liberal lover. 1613.; title: Defoe. The apparition of Mrs. Veal. 1706.; title: Voltaire. Jeannot and Colon. 1764?; title: Irving, W. Rip Van Winkle. 1819.; title: Scott, Sir W. Wandering Willie's tale. 1824.; title: Mérimée, P. The taking of the redoubt. 1829.; title: Balzac, H. de. La Grande Bretéche. 1832.; title: Hawthorne, N. The birthmark. 1843.; title: Poe, E.A. The cask of Amontillado. 1846.; title: Turgeneff, I. A Lear of the steppes. 1870.; title: Stevenson, R.L. Markheim. 1884.; title: Maupassant, G. de. A coward. 1885.; title: Kipling, R. Without benefit of clergy. 1890.; title: A list of representative tales and short stories.