Tales of mystery and melodrama
By: edited with an introd. by Leonard R. N. Ashley.
Contributors: Ashley, Leonard R. N.
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Woodbury, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Short stories, English.; Detective and mystery stories, English.; English fiction -- 19th century.
Table of contents: title: Kipling, R. The man who would be king.; title: Scott, Sir W. The tapestried chamber.; title: Shelley, M. W. The parvenue.; title: Gaskell, E. The half-brothers.; title: Dickens, C. Hunted down.; title: Collins, W. A traveller's tale of a terribly strange bed.; title: Pater, W. The child in the house.; title: Hardy, T. The three strangers.; title: Stevenson, R. L. Markheim.; title: Wilde, O. The birthday of the infanta.; title: Conrad, J. An outpost of progress.; title: Doyle, Sir A. C. The red-headed league.; title: Moore, G. Home sickness.; title: James, M. R. Casting the runes.; title: Morrison, A. That brute simmons.; title: Zangwill, I. A rose of the ghetto.; title: Wells, H. G. The lord of the dynamos.; title: Galsworthy, J. Quality.; title: Crackanthorpe, H. Lisa-la-folle.; title: Beerbohm, Sir M. The happy hypocrite.