The Family Book of Best Loved Short Stories
By: ed. by Leland W. Lawrence.
Publisher: Hanover House
Published: 1954
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y.
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 498
Copyright date: 1954
Subjects: Short stories, English; Short stories, American; Short stories
Table of contents: title: The gold-bug / Edgar Allan Poe --; title: Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne --; title: A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens --; title: Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving --; title: The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte --; title: The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain --; title: The real thing / Henry James --; title: The gift of the Magi / O. Henry --; title: Marjorie Daw / Thomas Bailey Aldrich --; title: The lady or the tiger? / Frank R. Stockton --; title: In the fog / Richard Harding Davis --; title: A lodging for the night / Robert Louis Stevenson --; title: The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling --; title: The necklace / Guy de Maupassant --; title: A passion in the desert / Honoré de Balzac --; title: Verotchka / Anton Checkov --; title: Our lady's juggler / Anatole France --; title: The adventure of the speckled band / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --; title: The doll's house / Katherine Mansfield --; title: A gray sleeve / Stephen Crane --; title: The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad --; title: Plum pudding and mince pie / Alice Duer Miller --; title: Land / Sinclair Lewis --; title: The killers / Ernest Hemmingway --; title: The leader of the people / John Steinbeck.