Tellers of tales
Subtitle: 100 short stories from the United States, England, France, Russia and Germany
By: selected and with an introduction by W. Somerset Maugham.
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & company, inc.
Published: 1939
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1526
Copyright date: 1939
Subjects: Short stories.
Description: Anthology of classic literary short stories from authors including; Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Balzac, Hardy, Stevenson, Maupassant, Wilde, Kipling, Romanof, Hemingway, Huxley, and more.
Notes: "First edition."
Table of contents: label: The two drovers
title: Sir Walter Scott; label: Rip Van Winkle ; The stout gentleman
title: Washington Irving; label: La grande Bretêche
title: Honoré de Balzac; label: The gray champion
title: Nathaniel Hawthorne; label: The crimson curtain
title: Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly; label: The gold-bug
title: Edgar Allan Poe; label: A simple heart
title: Gustave Flaubert; label: Krambambuli
title: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach; label: The outcasts of Poker Flat
title: Francis Bret Harte; label: Olympe and Henriette
title: Villiers de l'Isle Adam; label: The three strangers
title: Thomas Hardy; label: The jolly corner
title: Henry James; label: The procurator of Judæa
title: Anatole France; label: Youth
title: Karl Emil Franzos; label: Markheim
title: Robert Louis Stevenson; label: The necklace ; The legacy
title: Guy de Maupassant; label: Useless mouths
title: Octave Mirbeau; label: The happy prince
title: Oscar Wilde; label: The adventure of the Bruce-Partington plans
title: Arthur Conan Doyle; label: Typhoon
title: Joseph Conrad; label: The fate of the baron
title: Arthur Schnitzler; label: The whirligig of life
title: O. Henry; label: Without visible means
title: Arthur Morrison; label: The stricken doe
title: Pierre Mille; label: The monkey's paw
title: W.W. Jacobs; label: The coach
title: Violet Hunt; label: The last visit
title: Tristan Bernard; label: The man who would be king ; Without benefit of clergy
title: Rudyard Kipling; label: Papago wedding
title: Mary Austin; label: Uncle Franz
title: Ludwig Thoma; label: The door in the wall
title: H.G. Wells; label: An experiment in misery
title: Stephen Crane; label: Tobermory
title: Saki; label: To build a fire
title: Jack London; label: The death of Iván Ilých
title: Leo Tolstoy; label: The toupee artist
title: Nicolai Lyeskov; label: Mouzhiksv
title: Anton Chekhov; label: Twenty-six and one
title: Maxim Gorky; label: Sunstroke
title: Ivan Bunin; label: Captain Ribnikov
title: Alexander Kuprin; label: Hydromel
title: Vassili Iretsky; label: Without cherry blossom
title: Pantaleimon Romanof; label: In the town of Berdichev
title: Vassili Grossman; label: Hunger
title: Alexander Neweroff; label: Romance
title: Vera Inber; label: Earth on the hands
title: Boris Pilnjak; label: A letter
title: Isaac Babel; label: The child
title: Vsevolod Ivanov; label: The customer
title: Georgy Peskov; label: The knives
title: Valentine Katayev; label: Pippo Spano
title: Heinrich Mann; label: Old Rogaum and his Theresa
title: Theodore Dreiser; label: A.V. Laider
title: Max Beerbohm; label: The amulet
title: Jacob Wassermann; label: Cavalry patrol
title: Hugo von Hofmannsthal; label: Seeds ; The other woman
title: Sherwood Anderson; label: Early sorrow
title: Thomas Mann; label: Mr. and Mrs. Abbey's difficulties
title: E.M. Forster; label: The invisible collection
title: Stefan Zweig; label: Uncle Fred flits by
title: P.G. Wodehouse; label: In the last coach
title: Leonhard Frank; label: Counterparts
title: James Joyce; label: The tragedy of Goupil
title: Louis Pergaud; label: Odour of chrysanthemums
title: D.H. Lawrence; label: The chink
title: Alexandre Arnoux; label: Haircut ; Champion
title: Ring Lardner; label: A balaam
title: Arnold Zweig; label: Old Man Minick
title: Edna Ferber; label: The golden beetle
title: Bruno Frank; label: The Catalan night
title: Paul Morand; label: Silent snow, secret snow
title: Conrad Aiken; label: The lovely day
title: Jacques de Lacretelle; label: On the farm
title: Hans Friedrich Blunck; label: The killers
title: Ernest Hemingway; label: The stranger
title: Katherine Mansfield; label: The house of mourning
title: Franz Werfel; label: A start in life
title: Ruth Suckow; label: The desert island
title: Stella Benson; label: Big blonde
title: Dorothy Parker; label: Orphan Annie
title: Thyra Samter Winslow; label: Nuns at luncheon
title: Aldous Huxley; label: The rich boy
title: F. Scott Fitzgerald; label: The imposition
title: L.A.G. Strong; label: Turn about
title: William Faulkner; label: The doll
title: J. Kessel; label: Reduced
title: Elizabeth Bowen; label: María Concepción
title: Katherine Anne Porter; label: The cherry feast
title: Ernst Glaeser; label: No more trouble for Jedwick
title: Louis Paul; label: If you can't be good, be cautious
title: T.O. Beachcroft; label: The ball
title: Irène Némirovsky; label: Kneel to the rising sun
title: Erskine Caldwell; label: The Nowaks
title: Christopher Isherwood; label: Convalescence
title: Kay Boyle; label: The station
title: H.E. Bates; label: Oklahoma race riot
title: Frances W. Prentice