The great modern English stories
Subtitle: an anthology
By: comp. & ed., with an introduction, by Edward J. O'Brien.
Series: The great modern stories series
Publisher: Boni and Liveright
Published: 1919
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Short stories, English
Notes: The stolen bacillus, by H. G. Wells.--Old Aeson, by Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch.--The fire of Prometheus, by H. W. Nevinson.--The man who played upon the leaf, by A. Blackwood.--An old thorn, by W. H. Hudson.--The fourth Magus, by R. B. C. Graham.--The ghost ship, by R. Middleton.--Business is business, by J. Trevena.--The chink and the child, by T. Burke.--Monsieur Félicité, by H. Walpole.--Red and white, by R. Pertwee.--Man and brute, by E. L. G. Watson.--The lost suburb, by J. D. Beresford.--The birth of an artist, by H. de Sélincourt.--A sick collier, by D. H. Lawrence.--Greater than love, by C. Evans.--Birth, by G. Cannan--Biographies and bibliography [p. 355-366)
Table of contents: title: Introduction, by E. J. O'Brien.; title: The three strangers, by T. Hardy.; title: A lodging for the night, by R. L. Stevenson.; title: The starchild, by O. Wilde.; title: The dying of Francis Donne, by E. Dowson.; title: To Nancy, by Sir F. Wedmore.; title: An empty frame, by G. Egerton.; title: The three musketeers, by R. Kipling.; title: Wee Willie Winkie, by R. Kipling.; title: How Gavin Birse put it to Mag Lownie, by Sir J. M. Barrie.; title: The fisher of men, by F. Macleod.; title: Quattrocentisteria, by M. Hewlett.