A Book of the short story
By: selected and edited, with the history and technique of the short story, notes, and bibliographies by E.A. Cross ... .
Contributors: Cross, E. A. b. 1875.
Publisher: American Book Company
Published: 1934
Place of publication: New York; Boston; Cincinatti; Atlanta; Chicago
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1103
Copyright date: 1934
Subjects: Short stories, American.; Short stories, English.; Short stories.; Short story.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 1039-1055) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreward; title: Part one; title: History and technique of the short story:  Chapter I: The history of the short story; title: Chapter II: The materials from which stories are made; title: Chapter III: The short story is an impression from life; title: Chapter IV: Plot; title: Chapter V: The characters; title: Chapter VI: Other means used in developing a theme; title: Chapter VII: The mamagement of the material; title: Chapter VIII: A plan for the study of a short story; title: Part two; title: Selected short stories:  The prodigal son / The Bible; title: The mysterious bride / James Hogg; title: Rip van Winkle / Washington Irving; title: Wandering Willie's tale / Sir Walter Scott; title: The pistol shot / Alexander Pushkin; title: Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe; title: Dr. Heidegger's experiment / Nathaneil Hawthorne; title: The outcasts of Poker Flat / Francis Bret Harte; title: Dr. Marigold's Prescriptions / Charles Dickens; title: Taking the redoubt / Prosper Merimee; title: Marjorie Daw / Thomas Bailey Aldrich; title: The love letters of Smith / Henry Cuyler Bunner; title: The last class / Alphonse Daudet; title: The lesson of the master / Henry James; title: The lady, or the tiger / Frank Richard Stockton; title: The three strangers / Thomas Hardy; title: Will o' the mill / Robert Louis Stevenson; title: The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling; title: The necklace / Guy de Maupassant; title: Three arshins of land / Leo Tolstoy; title: Where love is, there God is also / Leo Tolstoy; title: The father / Bjornstjerne Bjornson; title: The darling / Anton Pavlovich Chekhov; title: The revolt of "mother" / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; title: The snow story / Chauncy Thomas; title: The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman; title: King Solomon o; title: f Kentucky / James Lane Allen; title: Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad; title: On the stairs / Arthur Morrison; title: Martha's fireplace / Hamlin Garland; title: The adventure of the speckled band / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; title: The door in the wall / Herbert George Wells; title: The reserved coffin / Luigi Piandello; title: The seven that were hanged / Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev; title: The truth of the Oliver Cromwell / Hames Brendan Connolly; title: Samuel / Jack London; title: The princess and the vagabone / Ruth Sawyer; title: A municiapl reprot / O. Henry; title: The procurator of Judea / Anatole France; title: The drake who had means of his own / Owen Wister; title: The outlaws / Selma Lagerlof; title: The bear tamer's daughter / Konrad Bercovici; title: After he was dead / Melville Davisson Post; title: The water hole / Maxwell Struthers Burt; title: The great auk / Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb; title: The silent infare / Armistead C. Gordon; title: Jetsam / John Russell; title: 300 miles away / Frank R. Adams; title: The weaver's grave / Seumas O'Kelly; title: England to America / Margaret Prescott Montague; title: For they know not what they do / Wilbur Daniel Steele; title: A source of irritation / Stacy Aumonier; title: The fat of the land / Anzia Yezierska; title: The fly / Katherine Mansfield; title: Clay shattered doors / Helen Rose Hull; title: Miss Hinch / Henry Sydnor Harrison; title: The man of the family / Ruth Suckow; title: Neither Jew nor Greek / William M. John; title: Who killed Rutherford? / Walter D. Edmonds; title: Fifty grand / Ernest Hemingway; title: Civilization / R. Hernekin Baptist; title: Night club / Katharine Brush; title: Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor; title: Selected bibliographies; title: Study notes; title: Index.