Selected English short stories
Subtitle: XIX & XX centuries.
Series: World's classics -- 228
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1921
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 483
Subjects: Short stories, English; Short stories, American
Table of contents: title: The sailor uncle / Mary Ann Lamb; title: First going to church / Charles Lamb; title: The maypole of Merry Mount ; The grey champion ; Roger Malvin's burial ; Old Esther Dudley / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: The purloined letter ; The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe; title: The holly tree / Charles Dickens; title: A terribly strange bed / William Wilkie Collins; title: The sweetness of a man's friend / William Hale White (Mark Rutherford); title: Ananda the miracle worker / Richard Garnett; title: The outcasts of Poker Flat ; How Santa Claus came to Simpson's Bar / Francis Bret Harte; title: Peppiniello / Charles Grant; title: A horseman in the sky / Ambrose Bierce; title: Owen Wingrave ; Four meetings / Henry James; title: The Sire de Malétroit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson; title: The birthday of the Infanta / Oscar Wilde; title: A poor gentleman / George Gissing; title: THe house of Eulalie / Henry Harland; title: The gift of the Magi ; A municipal report ; Madame Bo-Peep, of the ranches / William Sydney Porter (O. Henry); title: The gap in the wall ; A witch in the peak / R. Murray Gilchrist; title: The stowaway / Gerald Warre Cornish.