Greatest stories, and how they were written
Subtitle: selected by W. E. Henley.
By: With a series of introductions on the art of short story writing, by Sherwin Cody.
Edition: Re-edited ed.
Publisher: Sherwin Cody Associates
Published: 1950
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
Subjects: Short stories.
Notes: First ed. published in 1902 under title: Selections from the world's greatest short stories.
Table of contents: value: Patient Griselda, from the Decameron of Boccaccio.; value: Aladdin; or, The wonderful lamp, from the Arabian nights' entertainment.; value: Rip van Winkle, by W. Irving.; value: A passion in the desert, by H. de Balzac.; value: A child's dream of a star, by C. Dickens.; value: A Christmas carol, by C. Dickens.; value: The gold-bug, by E. A. Poe.; value: The great stone face, by N. Hawthorne.; value: The outcasts of Poker Flat, by B. Harte.; value: The necklace, The string, by G. de Maupassant.; value: The man who would be king, by R. Kipling.; value: The three Annas, by A. Chekhov.; value: Twenty-six and one, by M. Gorky.