Great Short Stories of the World
Publisher: Chancellor Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 876
ISBN-13: 9781851520886
Table of contents: title: ANCIENT EGYPT; title: INTRODUCTION; title: THE TWO BROTHERS (ANPU AND; title: SETNA AND THE MAGIC BOOK—Anoqymous; title: ANCIENT GREECE; title: INTRODUCTION; title: EUMAEUS' TALE—Homer; title: THE COUNTRY MOUSE AND THE TOWN vovsE—Æsop .; title: RING RHAMPSINITUS AND THE THtEF—Herodotus .; title: PHINECS AND THE HARPIES—APolloniuJ of Rhodes; title: THE ROBBERS OF EGYrr—I-Ieliodorus; title: ANCIENT ROME; title: txrRODUCTION; title: HORATIVS AT THE BRIDGE—Livy; title: ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE—Ovid; title: THE SHIPWRECK OF srM0NIDF.s—PhÆdrus; title: THE MATRON OF EPHEscs—Petronius; title: •rHE HAUNTED HovsE—PIiqy the Younger; title: THE DREAM—APuleius; title: BIBLICAL LITERATURE; title: INTRODUCTION; title: THE BOOK OF RÜTH—Old Testament .; title: THE HISTORY OF SUSANNA—The Apocrypha; title: THE PRODIGAL soN—New Testament .; title: THE RAISING OF LAZARUS—New Testament; title: RABBI AKIVA—The Talmud; title: THE JEWISH MOTHER—The Talmud; title: ANCIENT INDIA; title: INTRODUCÄION; title: THE ASS IN THE LION's sKIN—Jataka; title: THE DOVE AND THE cR0W—Panchatantra .; title: THE STORY OF DF.VADATTA—Somadeva .; title: THE JAcKAL—Hitopadesa; title: PERSIA; title: INTRODUCTION; title: JAMSHID AND WHAK—Firdawsi; title: THE SAILOR AND THE PEARL MERCHANT—Anonymous; title: ARABIA; title: INTRODUCTION; title: KHALED AND .; title: ABOV HASSAN THE wAG—Thousand and One Nights; title: GREAT BRITAIN; title: INTRODUCTION; title: GRENDEL's RAID—BeowuIf; title: ESYLLT AND SABRINA—Geoffrey of Monmouth; title: THE HUMBLING OF JOVINIAN—Gesta Romanorum; title: LL.UDD AND LLEVELYS—ThC Mabinogion; title: LAUNCELOT's TOURNEY—Sir Thomas Malory; title: ROBERTO's TALE—Robert Greene; title: TRUE RELATION OF THE APPARITION OF ONE MRS. VEAL—; title: Daniel Defoe; title: THE STORY OF AN HEIR—joseph Addison; title: THE DISABLED soLDIER—Oliver Goldsmith; title: THE BRIDAL OF JANET DALRYMPLE—Sir Walter Scott; title: THE WHrrE TROUT—SamueI Lover; title: THE QUEER CLIENT—CharIes Dickens; title: A TERRIBLY STRANGE BED—Wi/kie Collins; title: SQUIRE PETRICK'S LADY—Thomas Hardy; title: THRAWN JANET—Robert Louis Stevenson; title: THE SELFISH GIANT—Oscar Wilde .; title: JULIA CAHILL'S cvRSE—George Moore .; title: THAT BRUTE Morrison; title: GERMANY; title: INTRODUCTION; title: THE LAY OF HILDEBRAND—Anoqvmous; title: SIEGFRIED AND KRIEMHJLD-—The Lay of the Nibelungs; title: THE COMING OF GANDtN—Gottfried von Strassburg; title: BRUIN THE BEAR AND REYNARD THE Fox—Reynard the; title: Fox .; title: EULENSPIEGEL AND THE MERcHANT—Eulenspiegel; title: DOCTOR FAUST AND THE USURER—Thc History of Dr. J.; title: Faust; title: THE SICK WIFE—Christian Gellert; title: LITTLE BRIAR-ROSE—The Brothers Grimm; title: THE STORY OF SERAPION—E. T. A. Hoffmann; title: A LEGEND OF THE DANcE—Gottfried Keller; title: THE FURY—Paul Heyse; title: THE TRIPLE WARNING—Arthur Schnitzler; title: A NEW-YEAR'S EVE coNFEss10N—Hermann Sudermarn .; title: FRANCE; title: INTRODUCTION; title: THE DIVIDED H0RSECLOTH—Bernier; title: THE PRIEST AND THE MULBERRIES—Anonymous; title: THE LAY OF THE TWO LOVERS-—Marit de France; title: THE PIOUS LADY AND THE GRAY FRIAR—Marguerite de; title: Navarre; title: HE WHO MARRIED A DUMB WTFE—Franpis Rabelais; title: THE ROAST-MEAT SELLER—FranfOis Rabelais; title: LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOry—Charles Perrault; title: THE FOUR FRIENDS—jean de La Fontaine; title: MEMNON THE PHILOSOPHER—VOItaire .; title: LAVSUS AND LYDIA—I. F. Marmontel -; title: THE MYSTERIOUS MANSION—Honoré de Balzac; title: MATEO FALCONE—Prosper Mérimée; title: THE MUMMY'S Gautier; title: THE TORTURE OF nope—Villiers de L' Isle Adam .; title: THE LAST LF.ss0N—Alphonse Daudet; title: THE FAIRY AMOUREUSE—ÉmiIe Zola; title: THE SUBSTITUTE—Francois Coppée .; title: OUR LADY'S JUGGLER—AnatoIe France .; title: THE NECKLACE—GY de Maupassant; title: ITALY; title: INTRODUCTION; title: THE BELL OF ATRI—The Hundred Ancient Talcs; title: THE FAtß0N—Giovanni Boccaccio .; title: GALGANO—Ser Giovanni; title: THE TWO AMBASSADORS—Ftanco Sacchetti; title: THE CAVALIER OF T0LEDO-—Masuccio (Guardato); title: BELPHAGOR—JViccolo Macchiavelli; title: A KING IN DISGUBE—Matteo Bandello; title: THE FRIAR OF NOVARA—AgnoIo Firenzuola .; title: THE GREEK MERCHANT—Giooanbattista Giraldi Cinthio; title: THE VENETIAN SILK-MERCER—Carlo Gozzi; title: CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA—Giovanni Verga; title: THE PEASANT'S WILL—Antonio Fogazzaro; title: MENDICANT MELODY—Edmondo de Amicis; title: LULU's TRIUMPH—MatiIde Sergo; title: THE HERO—GabrieIe d'Annunzio; title: TWO Deledda; title: SPAIN; title: INTRODUCTION; title: THE MIRACLE OF THE JEW—Chronicle of the Cid; title: THE SON AND HIS FRIENDS—juan Manuel; title: HOW LAZARO SERVED A BULER0—Diego Hurtado; title: Mendoza; title: GUZMAN AND MY LORD CARDINAL—Mateo Alemån; title: RLNCONETE AND CORTADILLO-—Miguel Cervantes .; title: THE TALL WOMAN—PedT0 Antonio de Alarc6n; title: MAESE PÉREZ, THE ORGANIST—GUStaVO Adolfo Be;cquer; title: ADIOS, Alas .; title: CHINA; title: INTRODUCTION; title: THE STORY OF MING-Y—MarveIous Tales; title: A FICKLE wmow—Marvc10us Tales; title: JAPAN; title: INTRODUCTION; title: THE FORTY-SEVEN RÖNINS—An0Lvmous; title: THE PIER—Mori Ogwai; title: HUNGARY; title: INTRODUCTION; title: THE INVISIBLE wot'ND—Karoly Kisfaludi; title: A BALL—Mauru.v Jokai; title: RUSSIA; title: INTRODUCTION; title: THE SNOW STORM—AIexander Pushkin; title: ST. JOHN's EW—NikoIai Gogol; title: THE DISTRICT DOCTOR—Ivan Turgenev .; title: de; title: THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDING—Ftodor Dos-; title: THE LONG EXILE—Leo Tolstoy; title: THE OLD BELL-RINGER—VIadimir Korolenko; title: THE SIGNAL—Vsevolod Garshin; title: THE BET—Anton Chekhov; title: ONE AUTUMN NIGHT—Maxim Gorky; title: SILENCE—Leonid Anåtyv; title: POLAND; title: INTRODUCTION; title: THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER OF ASPtNWALL—Hevk Sien-; title: THE HUMAN TELEGRAPH—BOIeslav Prus; title: FOREBODINGS—Stefan Zerom.fki; title: THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES; title: INTRODUCTION; title: Iceland; title: BALDR'S BALE—Snorri Sturluson; title: REGIN'S TALE—VOImnga Saga; title: Denmark; title: THE SHEPHERDESS AND THE Christian An-; title: dersen .; title: HENRIK AND ROSALIE—M Aron; title: Jens Peter; title: WORLDS—; title: NORWAY; title: THE SMITH WHO COULD NOT GET INTO HELL—Peter Chris-; title: ten Asbjörnsen and jorgen Moe; title: THE FATHER— Björnstjerne Björnson; title: SKOBELEF—Johan Bojer.; title: SWEDEN; title: LOVE AND BREAD—Ægust Strindberg; title: TRE ECLIPSE—Selma Lagerlöf; title: BELGIUM; title: INTRODUCTION; title: THE MYSTERIOUS pwrvRE—Char/es de Coster; title: THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS—Maurice Maeterlinck; title: TIJE SOUL OF VEERE—CamilIe Lemonnier; title: ONE NIGHT—F.miIe rerhaeren; title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA; title: rxrRODUCT10N; title: THE VAMPIRE—jan Neruda; title: FOLTfN's DRUM—SvatoPluk (lech .; title: SOUTH AMERICA; title: INTRODUCTION; title: Costa Rica; title: CHIVALRY—Ricatdo Fernåndez-Garcia; title: Brazil; title: THE ATTENDANT'S CONFESSION—I. M. Machado dt Assis; title: Peru; title: THE LEGEND OF PYGMALION—Ventura Garcia-Cal&rån; title: UNITED STATES; title: INTRODUCTION; title: MRS. BU'LLFROG—Nathanitl Hawthorne; title: [THE TELL-TALE HEART](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)—Edgar Allan Poe; title: JOURNALISM IN TENNESSEE—Mark Twain; title: THE MAN AND THE SNAKE—Ambrose Bierce ,; title: THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT—Bret Hdrte; title: THE STORY IN IT—Henry James; title: SUPPLY AND DEMAND—O. Henry; title: THE LOST PHOEBE—Theodore Dreiser; title: SOPHISTICATION—Sherwood Anderson; title: A WAGNER MATINÉE—WiIIa Cather; title: A BROWN WOMAN—james Branch Cabell