A Book of Short Stories
By: compiled and edited, with introduction and notes, and biographies of the authors, by Blanche Colton Williams ... ; illustrated.
Contributors: Flanagan, John Richard, ill.; Williams, Blanche Colton, 1879-1944.; Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.; Harte, Bret, 1836-1902.; Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897.; Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.; Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893.; Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930.; Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940.; Morrison, Arthur, 1863-1945.; Henry, O., 1862-1910.; Jacobs, W. W. 1863-1943.; Jordan, Elizabeth Garver, 1867-1947.; Greene, Frederick Stuart, b. 1870.; D. Appleton and Company.
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company
Published: 1919
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 291
Copyright date: 1918
Subjects: Short stories.
Description: A COLLECTION FOR USE IN HIGH SCHOOLS, COM- PILED AND EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, AND BIOGRAPHIES OF THE AUTHORS
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Frontispiece, photographic plates facing p. 96, 131, 179 and 202, and illustrations on p. 51, 147 and 193, some signed by Jack Flanagan.
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.