Great short stories of the world
Subtitle: 30 classic tales
By: by Ambrose Bierce ... (et al.) ; edited by Lois Hill..
Contributors: Bierce, Ambrose.; Hill, Lois.
Edition: printing (1)
Publisher: Avenel Books
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780517054482
Copyright date: 1991
Subjects: Short stories.; Short stories -- Translations into English.; Manners and customs -- Fiction.
Table of contents: title: Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving --; title: The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe --; title: The great stone face / Nathaniel Hawthorne --; title: My terninal moriane / Frank R. Stockton --; title: The indian's hand / Lorimer Stoddard --; title: A good-for-nothing / Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen --; title: The damned thing / Amborse Bierce --; title: The phonograph and the graft / O. Henry --; title: "To make a Hoosier holiday" / George Ade --; title: The lotus eaters / Virginia Tracy --; title: Out of the storm / Mulloy Finnegan --; title: Mrs. Protheroe / Booth Tarkington --; title: In each other's shoes / George Parsons Lathrop --; title: The polite horse / Henry Beach Needham --; title: The duel / Nikolai Teleshov --; title: The hanging at La Piroche / Alexandre Dumas, fils --; title: A work of art / Anton Chekhov --; title: The bit of string / Guy de Maupassant --; title: A scandal in Bohemia / Arthur Conan Doyle --; title: Love and bread / Jean August Strindberg --; title: The suicide club / Robert Louis Stevenson --; title: Boless / Maxim Gorki --; title: The mummy's foot / Theophile Gautier --; title: The end of candia / Gabriele d'Annunzio --; title: The cloak / Nikolai Gogol --; title: Railroad and churchyard / Björnstjerne Björnson --; title: The sire de Malétroit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson --; title: The thief / Fyodor Dostoevsky --; title: The beauty spot / Alfred de Musset --; title: The long exile / Leo Tolstoy.