A book of short stories
Subtitle: a collection for use in high schools
By: compiled and edited, with introduction and notes, and biographies of the authors, by Blanche Colton Williams ... ; illustrated
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company
Published: 1919
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Short stories
Notes: Includes bibliographies.

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Table of contents: title: Legend of the Moor's legacy / Washington Irving; title: The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe; title: Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte; title: The last lesson / Alphonse Daudet; title: The Sire de Male troit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson; title: The necklace / Guy de Maupassant; title: A gala dress / Mary Wilkins Freeman; title: Under the lion's paw / Hamlin Garland; title: On the stairs / Arthur Morrison; title: A blackjack bargainer / "O. Henry" (William Sydney Porter); title: The well / William Wydmark Jacobs; title: The comforter / Elizabeth Jordan; title: "Molly McGuire, fourteen" / Frederick Stuart Greene.