A selection from the world's greatest short stories
Subtitle: illustrative of the history of short story writing, with critical and historical comments.
Series: Short story index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Freeport, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
Subjects: Short stories.
Notes: Reprint of the 1902 ed.
Table of contents: title: Patient Griselda, from the Decameron.; title: Aladdin; or, The wonderful lamp, from The Arabian nights.; title: Rip Van Winkle, by W. Irving.; title: A passion in the desert, by H. de Balzac.; title: A child's dream of a star, by C. Dickens.; title: A princess's tragedy, from Barry Lyndon, by W. M. Thackery.; title: The gold-bug, by E. A. Poe.; title: The great stone face, by N. Hawthorne.; title: The necklace, and The string, by G. de Maupassant.; title: The man who would be king, by R. Kipling.; title: How Gavin Birse put it to Mag Lownie, from A window in Thrums, by J. M. Barrie.; title: On the stairs, from Tales of Mean Street, by A. Morrison.