Selections from the world's greatest short stories
Subtitle: illustrative of the history of short story writing
By: with critical and historical comments by Sherwin Cody ...
Publisher: A.C. McClurg & Company
Published: 1902
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
Subjects: Short stories.
Table of contents: title: Patient Griselda, from the "Decameron" of Boccaccio. Rewritten in English by the editor.; title: Aladdin, or The wonderful lamp, from "The Arabian nights".; title: Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving.; title: A passion in the desert, by Honoré de Balzac. Rewritten in English by the editor.; title: A child's dream of a star, by Charles Dickens.; title: A Christmas carol, by Charles Dickens.; title: A princess's tragedy, from "Barry Lyndon", by W.M. Thackeray.; title: The gold-bug, by Edgar Allan Poe.; title: The great stone face, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.; title: The necklace, and The string, by Guy de Maupassant. Rewritten in English by the editor.; title: The man who would be king, by Ruyard Kipling.; title: How Gavin Birse put it to Mag Lownie, from "A window in Thrums", by J.M. Barrie.; title: On the stairs, from "Tales of mean streets", by Arthur Morrison.