Greatest short stories.
Publisher: P. F. Collier & son
Published: 1915
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Short stories
Table of contents: title: V.1  Irving / Rip Van Winkle; title: Poe / Murders in the Rue Morgue; title: Hawthorne / Great stone face; title: Hoffman / Man in the reservoir; title: O'Brien / Diamond lens; title: Hale / Man without a country; title: Ludlow / Brace of boys; title: Trowbridge / Man who stole a meeting-house; title: Murray / Ride with a mad horse in a freight-car; title: Davis / Balacchi brothers; title: Taylor / Who was she?; title: V.2  Lewis / How the raven died; title: De Forest / Brigade commander; title: Hayes / Denver express; title: Adeler / Frictional electricity; title: Stockton / My terminal moraine; title: Stoddard / Indian's hand; title: Peattie / Michigan man; title: Morrow / Inmate of the dungeon; title: Frederic / Brother Sebastian's friendship; title: Boyesen / Good-for-nothing; title: Bierce / Damned thing; title: Morris / Wild horse of Tartary; title: Lefevre / Tipster; title: Curwood / Thomas Jefferson Brown; title: V.3  O. Henry / Phonograph and the graft; title: Harris / Brother rabbit's cradle; title: Altsheler / After the battle; title: Deland / "Many waters"; title: Ade / "To make a Hoosier holiday"; title: Kelly / Christmas present for a lady; title: Grant / Against his judgment; title: Long / Purple-eyes; title: Spearman / Run of the yellow mail; title: Colton / Spiral stone; title: Roberts / Jean Michaud's little ship; title: Kingsley / At the end of his rope; title: Tracy / Lotus eaters; title: Harland / Rosemary for remembrance; title: Adams / Such as walk in darkness; title: Finnegan / Out of the storm; title: V.4   Tarkington / Mrs. Protheroe; title: Spears / Silver Lake panic; title: Cutting / Happiest time; title: Rives / In the wake of war; title: Sawyer / Tall one and the wee one; title: Roberts / Captain Pike; title: Dunne / Mr. Dooley on the pursuit of riches; title: MacCreagh / Everett, Commissioner of Justice; title: Meedham / Polite horse; title: Newton / Charge; title: Boltwood / Wedding Bob Dean ran; title: Curwood / His first penitent; title: Douglas / Unseen hands; title: Scoville / Churching of Bankson; title: Lathrop / In each other's shoes; title: Friedman / Return; title: Wells / Bondage; title: V.5  Nordau / Deliverance; title: Lagerlof / Outlaws; title: Castelnuovo / Lost letter; title: Teleshov / Duel; title: Dumas, Fils / Hanging at La Piroche; title: von Riehl / Castle Neideck; title: Chekhov / Work of art; title: Maupassant / Bit of string; title: Doyle / Scandal in Bohemia; title: Strindberg / Love and bread; title: Stevenson / Suicide club; title: Baumbach / Fountain of youth; title: Gorki / Boless; title: Fogazzaro / Silver crucifix; title: Gautier / Mummy's foot; title: D'Annunzio / End of Candia; title: Scribe / Price of a life; title: V.6  Gaboriau / Accursed house; title: Gogol / Cloak; title: Verga / Cavalleria Rusticana; title: Bjornson / Railroad and churchyard; title: Janin / Vendean marriage; title: Heyse / Young girl of Treppi; title: Stevenson / Sire de Maletroit's door; title: Dostoievski / Thief; title: Sacher-Masoch / Thou shalt not kill; title: Musset / Beauty spot; title: Sudermann / A New-Year's Eve confession; title: de Amicis / Drummer; title: Tolstoi / Long exile; title: Reuter / Bric-a-brac and destinies. V.7  Poushkin / Queen of spades; title: Balzac /  Unknown masterpiece; title: Doyle / My friend the murderer; title: Schnitzler / Dead are silent; title: Merimee / How the redoubt was taken; title: Chekhov / Slanderer; title: Chatrian / Dean's watch; title: Zschokke / Broken cup; title: About / Which was the madman?; title: Turgenev / Rendezvous; title: Victor / Napoleon and Pope Pius VII; title: Andreiev / Valia; title: Coppee / Lost child; title: Kipling / Man who would be king; title: V.8  Kipling / Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney; title: Maupassant / Necklace; title: Garshin / Signal; title: France / Putois; title: Barrie / Courting of T'nowhead's Bell; title: Eschstruth / Gray nun; title: Huysmans / Sac-au-dos; title: Quiller-Couch / Roll-call of the reef; title: Niese / Story of the little Mamsell; title: Dumas / A Bal Masque; title: Wells / Red room; title: Zola / Fete at Coqueville; title: Wildenbruch / Good blood.