The Treasury of English Short Stories
Edition: printing (1)
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9781566191258
Copyright date: 1985
Subjects: Short stories, Commonwealth (English); Short stories, English
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: xvii; title: The Reeve's Tale
pagenum: 1
authors: Geoffrey Chaucer
description: translated into modern prose by R. M. Lumiansky; title: The Apparition of Mrs. Veal
pagenum: 9
authors: Daniel Defoe; title: The Wedding of Jenny Distaff
pagenum: 17
authors: Richard Steele; title: A Story of an Heir
pagenum: 21
authors: Joseph Addison; title: The Mysterious Bride
pagenum: 25
authors: James Hogg; title: The Tapestried Chamber or The Lady in the Sacque
pagenum: 39
authors: Sir Walter Scott; title: The Half-Brothers
pagenum: 53
authors: Elizabeth Gaskell; title: Snobs and Marriage
pagenum: 64
authors: William Makepeace Thackeray; title: The Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn
pagenum: 68
authors: Charles Dickens; title: The White Cat of Drumgunniol
pagenum: 78
authors: J. S. Le Fanu; title: Returning Home
pagenum: 89
authors: Anthony Trollope; title: The Dead Hand
pagenum: 108
authors: Wilkie Collins; title: A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four
pagenum: 128
authors: Thomas Hardy; title: The Story of a Piebald Horse
pagenum: 134
authors: W. H. Hudson; title: A Lodging for the Night
pagenum: 144
authors: Robert Louis Stevenson; title: The Birthday of the Infanta
pagenum: 162
authors: Oscar Wilde; title: Il Conde
pagenum: 178
authors: Joseph Conrad; title: The New Catacomb
pagenum: 193
authors: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; title: Mary Postgate
pagenum: 206
authors: Rudyard Kipling; title: Mr. Brisher's Treasure
pagenum: 220
authors: H. G. Wells; title: The Broken Boot
pagenum: 229
authors: John Galsworthy; title: Tobermory
pagenum: 233
authors: Saki (H. H. Munro); title: The Creatures
pagenum: 240
authors: Walter de la Mare; title: The Colonel's Lady
pagenum: 250
authors: W. Somerset Maugham; title: Arabesque - The Mouse
pagenum: 267
authors: A. E. Coppard; title: The Boarding House
pagenum: 274
authors: James Joyce; title: The Duchess and the Jeweller
pagenum: 281
authors: Virginia Woolf; title: Bachelors
pagenum: 287
authors: Hugh Walpole; title: The Prussian Officer
pagenum: 299
authors: D. H. Lawrence; title: New Women
pagenum: 320
authors: Joyce Cary; title: Bliss
pagenum: 327
authors: Katherine Mansfield; title: Idenborough
pagenum: 339
authors: Sylvia Townsend Warner; title: Fard
pagenum: 347
authors: Aldous Huxley; title: Spring Sowing
pagenum: 352
authors: Liam O'Flaherty; title: Hand in Glove
pagenum: 358
authors: Elizabeth Bowen; title: Sinners
pagenum: 368
authors: Sean O'Faolain; title: The Spree
pagenum: 377
authors: V. S. Pritchett; title: A Wedding-Dress
pagenum: 396
authors: Morley Callaghan; title: Judas
pagenum: 400
authors: Frank O'Connor; title: A Drink in the Passage
pagenum: 409
authors: Alan Paton; title: Mortmain
pagenum: 416
authors: Graham Greene; title: The Spring Hat
pagenum: 426
authors: H. E. Bates; title: Under the Banyan Tree
pagenum: 433
authors: R. K. Narayan; title: The Old Man
pagenum: 438
authors: Daphne du Maurier; title: Eterna
pagenum: 448
authors: Mary Lavin; title: Willy-Wagtails by Moonlight
pagenum: 461
authors: Patrick White; title: The True Story
pagenum: 472
authors: Dylan Thomas; title: Royal Jelly
pagenum: 476
authors: Roald Dahl; title: The Fathers' Daughters
pagenum: 501
authors: Muriel Spark; title: Two Potters
pagenum: 512
authors: Doris Lessing; title: The Confirmation Suit
pagenum: 525
authors: Brendan Behan; title: Native Country
pagenum: 532
authors: Nadine Gordimer; title: Prizes
pagenum: 543
authors: Janet Frame; title: Timoshenko
pagenum: 549
authors: Iain Crichton Smith; title: The Ballroom of Romance
pagenum: 555
authors: William Trevor; title: A Day in the Country
pagenum: 573
authors: Dan Jacobson; title: Weekend
pagenum: 581
authors: Shirley Hazzard; title: Prue
pagenum: 588
authors: Alice Munro; title: Legend for a Painting
pagenum: 593
authors: Julia O'Faolain; title: Threnody
pagenum: 596
authors: Fay Weldon; title: Cords
pagenum: 612
authors: Edna O'Brien; title: Rape Fantasies
pagenum: 623
authors: Margaret Atwood; title: The Courtship of Mr. Lyon
pagenum: 632
authors: Angela Carter; title: Secrets
pagenum: 643
authors: Bernard MacLaverty; title: Night in Tunisia
pagenum: 651
authors: Neil Jordan; title: Author Index
pagenum: 667; title: Title Index
pagenum: 670