Short Stories (Penguin Classics)
Contributors: Justin Kaplan (Introduction)
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: September 30, 1993
Number of pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9780140433845
Table of contents: title: The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County --; title: The story of the bad little boy --; title: Cannibalism in the cars --; title: Niagara --; title: The Capitoline Venus --; title: Journalism in Tennessee --; title: A curious dream --; title: The facts in the case of the great beef contract --; title: How I edited an agricultural paper --; title: A medieval romance --; title: My watch --; title: Political economy --; title: Science vs luck --; title: The story of the good little boy --; title: A mysterious visit --; title: The great landslide case --; title: Buck Fanshaw's funeral --; title: Captain Ned Blakely --; title: His grandfather's old ram --; title: Dick Baker's cat --; title: A letter from Horace Greeley --; title: A true story --; title: Experiences of the McWilliamses with membranous croup --; title: Mrs. McWilliams and the lightning --; title: The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm --; title: The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut --; title: The canvasser's tale --; title: The loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton --; title: Edward Mills and George Benton: a tale --; title: Jim Baker's blue-jay yarn --; title: The man who put up at Gadsby's --; title: A curious experience --; title: The invalid's story --; title: The stolen white elephant --; title: A dying man's confession --; title: The professor's yarn --; title: A burning brand --; title: The private life of a campaign that failed --; title: A ghost story --; title: Luck --; title: Playing courier --; title: The Californian's tale --; title: Extracts from Adam's diary --; title: Eve's diary --; title: The Esquimau maiden's romance --; title: Is he living or is he dead? --; title: The Ł1,000,000 bank-note --; title: John Brown and Mary Taylor --; title: Cecil Rhode's shark --; title: Why Ed Jackson called on Commodore Vanderbilt --; title: The man that corrupted Hadleyburg --; title: The death disk --; title: Two little tales --; title: The belated Russian passport --; title: A double-barreled detective story --; title: The five boons of life --; title: Was it Heaven? or Hell? --; title: A dog's tale --; title: A horse's tale --; title: The $30,000 bequest --; title: The war prayer --; title: Hunting the deceitful turkey --; title: Extract from Captain Stormfield's visit to Heaven --; title: A fable --; title: How to tell a story.