Fireside Reader
Subtitle: A Treasury of Outstanding Short Stories
Contributors: Joseph Papin (Drawings); Reader's Digest (Editor)
Publisher: The Readers Digest Association; The Readers Digest Assoc.
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Pleasantville, New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 639
ISBN-13: 9780895770998
Copyright date: 1978
Table of contents: title: The bottle imp / Robert Louis Stevenson --; title: An end to dreams / Stephen Vincent Benét --; title: Parson's pleasure / Roald Dahl --; title: The bride comes to yellow sky / Stephen Crane --; title: The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs --; title: The foster portfolio / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. --; title: The poor relation's story / Charles Dickens --; title: The real thing / Henry James --; title: The hostage / C.S. Forester --; title: Rip van Winkle / Washington Irving --; title: The girls in their summer dresses / Irwin Shaw --; title: The street that got mislaid / Patrick Waddington --; title: A piece of steak / Jack London --; title: The secret ingredient / Paul Gallico --; title: The hawk / Liam O'Flaherty --; title: The apprentice / Dorothy Canfield Fisher --; title: A sick call / Morley Callaghan --; title: A terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins --; title: The loss / Gillian Tindall --; title: The mouse / Saki (H.H. Munro) --; title: Tickets, please / D.H. Lawrence --; title: The country of the blind / H.G. Wells --; title: The gifts of war / Margaret Drabble --; title: The skedule / H.H. Wilson --; title: Well I'm -! / G.E.M. Skues --; title: The weather breeder / Merrill Denison --; title: In and out of the houses / Elizabeth Taylor --; title: A rose for Emily / William Faulkner --; title: The test / Brendan Gill --; title: The hammer of God / G.K. Chesterton --; title: The pocketbook game / Alice Childress --; title: The wedding gift / Thomas Raddall --; title: The adventure of the speckled band / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --; title: The pit and the pendulum / Edgar Allan Poe --; title: The boy who drew cats / Lafcadio Ahearn --; title: The little governess / Katherine Mansfield --; title: Running wolf / Algernon Blackwood --; title: The peach stone / Paul Horgan --; title: Red / W. Somerset Maugham --; title: The fiery wooing of Mordred / P.G. Wodehouse --; title: A sunrise on the veld / Doris Lessing --; title: The ghost / Richard Hughes --; title: The birds / Daphne du Maurier --; title: The story of the widow's son / Mary Lavin --; title: The train from Rhodesia / Nadine Gordimer --; title: Dygartsbush / Walter D. Edmonds --The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter --; title: Winter's morning / Len Deighton --; title: The lady on the gray / John Collier --; title: The wind and the snow of winter / Walter Van Tilburg Clark.