Short stories
Subtitle: a collection of types of the short story
By: edited by William Thomson Hastings ... Benjamin Crocker Clough ... and Kenneth Oliver Mason ...
Contributors: Clough, Benjamin Croker, joint ed.; Mason, Kenneth Oliver, joint ed.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: 1924
Place of publication: Boston; New York [etc.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
Subjects: Short stories.
Notes: --The verdict, by Edith Wharton.--The highwayman, by Lord Dunsany.--The guest, by Lord Dunsany.--The secret sharer, by J. Conrad.--<From> Three heavy husbands, by J. Stephens.--The dead man, by J. Galsworthy.--Mehmish, by H.G. Dwight.--Araby, by J. Joyce.--The three kings, by W. Caine.--Marriage à la mode, by "Katherine Mansfield."--The mockbeggar, by Sheila Kaye-Smith.
Table of contents: title: Of the churl who won paradise, anonymous.; title: A remarkable passage of an apparition, by D. Defoe.; title: Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe, by N. Hawthorne.; title: The masque of the red death, by E.A. Poe.; title: Barbazure, by W.M. Thackeray.; title: The death of the Dauphin, by A. Daudet.; title: The outcasts of Poker Flat, by B. Harte.; title: 'Sieur George, by G.W. Cable.; title: Providence and the guitar, by R.L. Stevenson.; title: Little soldier, by G. de Maupassant.; title: False dawn, by R. Kipling.; title: The love-letters of Smith, by H.C. Bunner.; title: A village singer, by Mary E.W. Freeman.; title: The Buddhist priest's wife, by Olive Schreiner.; title: The visits, by H. James.; title: The pace of youth, by S. Crane.; title: The widow's cruise, by F.R. Stockton.; title: Tucson Jennie's jealousy, by A.H. Lewis.; title: A question of habit, by W.W. Jacobs.; title: The furnished room, by "O. Henry."; title: The mezzotint, by M.R. James.; title: The sculptor's funeral, by Willa S. Cather.; title: The western islands, by J. Masefield.