A selection from the world's greatest short stories
Subtitle: illustrative of the history of short story writing
By: with critical and historical comments by Sherwin Cody ...
Edition: 14th ed.
Series: [The "world's best" series]
Publisher: A.C. McClurg & company
Published: 1916
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
Subjects: Short stories
Notes: Access to portions of this material may be restricted.
Table of contents: title: Patient Griselda, from the "Decameron," of Boccaccio, Rewritten in English by the editor.; title: Aladdin, or The wonderful lamp from "The Arabian nights."; title: Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving.; title: A passion in the desert, by Honoré de Balzac. Tr. from the French by the editor.; title: A child's dream of a star, by Charles Dickens.; title: A princess's tragedy from "Barry Lyndon," by W. M. Thackeray.; title: The gold-bug, by Edgar Allan Poe.; title: The great stone face, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.; title: The necklace, and The string, by Guy de Maupassant. Tr. from the French by the editor.; title: The man who would be king, by Rudyard 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 streets," by Arthur Morrison.