A treasury of short stories
Subtitle: favorites of the past hundred years from Turgenev to Thurber, from Balzac to Hemingway; with biographical sketches of the authors
By: Edited by Bernardine Kielty
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1947
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 849
Subjects: Short stories
Notes: Restrictions unspecified

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Table of contents: title: Yermolaï and the miller's wife  -- Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev; title: The death of Ivan Ilyich  -- Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoi [Tolstoy]; title: A day in the country  -- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov; title: A passion in the desert  -- Honoré de Balzac; title: A simple heart  -- Gustave Flaubert; title: Two little soldiers  -- Guy de Maupassant; title: The last lesson  -- Alphonse Daudet; title: Our lady's juggler  -- Anatole France; title: The steadfast tin soldier  -- Hans Christian Andersen; title: Germelshausen  -- Friedrich Gerstäcker; title: The Saint Joseph's ass  -- Giovanni Verga; title: A lodging for the night  -- Robert Louis Stevenson; title: Quattrocentisteria  -- Maurice Hewlett; title: The red-headed league  -- Arthur Conan Doyle; title: Without benefit of clergy  -- Rudyard Kipling; title: The tragedy of a comic song  -- Leonard Merrick; title: The money box  -- W.W. Jacobs; title: The secret sharer  -- Joseph Conrad; title: The cask of Amontillado  -- Edgar Allan Poe; title: A horseman in the sky  -- Ambrose Bierce; title: The Hiltons' holiday  -- Sara Orne Jewett; title: The griffin and the Minor Canon  -- Frank Stockton; title: The pace of youth  -- Stephen Crane; title: To build a fire  -- Jack London; title: The coming-out of Maggie  -- O. Henry; title: The altar of the dead  -- Henry James; title: Afterward  -- Edith Wharton; title: Sorrow-acre  -- Isak Dinesen; title: The storyteller  -- Frank O'Connor; title: The old hunter  -- Liam O'Flaherty; title: Sinners  -- Sean O'Faoláin; title: The rocking-horse winner  -- D.H. Lawrence; title: The doll's house  -- Katherine Mansfield; title: Mackintosh  -- W. Somerset Maugham; title: Young Archimedes  -- Aldous Huxley; title: Bella Fleace gave a party  -- Evelyn Waugh; title: Joining Charles  -- Elizabeth Bowen; title: Beware of the dog  -- Roald Dahl; title: The mezzotint  -- M.R. James; title: The story of a panic  -- E.M. Forster; title: The open window  -- Saki (H.H. Munro); title: The beckoning fair one  -- Oliver Onions; title: A haunted house  -- Virginia Woolf; title: Adam and Eve and pinch me  -- A.E. Coppard; title: The voice in the night  -- William Hope Hodgson; title: Bird of prey  -- John Collier; title: I'm a fool  -- Sherwood Anderson; title: Some like them cold  -- Ring Lardner; title: Blood pressure  -- Damon Runyon; title: Babylon revisited  -- F. Scott Fitzgerald; title: Night club  -- Katharine Brush; title: A telephone call  -- Dorothy Parker; title: The snows of Kilimanjaro  -- Ernest Hemingway; title: The leader of the people  -- John Steinbeck; title: Price's always open  -- John O'Hara; title: The tuxedos  -- Jerome Weidman; title: Act of faith  -- Irwin Shaw; title: The secret life of Walter Mitty  -- James Thurber; title: Sacre du printemps  -- Ludwig Bemelmans; title: Seventy thousand Assyrians  -- William Saroyan; title: O'Halloran's luck  -- Stephen Vincent Benét; title: Tom Whipple  -- Walter D. Edmonds; title: Silent snow, secret snow  -- Conrad Aiken; title: Sex education  -- Dorothy Canfield; title: The petrified man  -- Eudora Welty; title: The hound  -- William Faulkner; title: No door  -- Thomas Wolfe; title: Saturday afternoon  -- Erskine Caldwell; title: Almos' a man  -- Richard Wright; title: The old order -- Katherine Anne Porter.