Great Short Stories of the World
Subtitle: an anthology selected from the literatures of all periods and countries
Publisher: Book League of America
Published: 1937
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 1072
Copyright date: 1925
Table of contents: title: The two brothers (Anpu and Bata) / Anonymous --; title: Setna and the magic book / Anonymous --; title: Eumæus' : talk / Homer --; title: The country mouse and the town mouse / Æsop --; title: King Rhampsinitus and the thief / Herodotus --; title: Phineus and the harpies / Apollonius of Rhodes --; title: The robbers of Egypt / Heliodorus --; title: Horatius at the bridge / Livy --; title: Orpheus and the Eurydice / Ovid --; title: The shipwreck of Simonides / Phædrus --; title: The matron of Ephesus / Petronius --; title: The haunted house / Pliny the Younger --; title: The dream / Apuleius --; title: The book of Ruth (Old Testament) --; title: The history of Susanna (The Apocrypha) --; title: The prodigal son (New Testament) --; title: The raising of Lazarus (New Testament) --; title: Rabbi Akiva (The Talmud) --; title: The Jewish mother (The Talmud) --; title: The ass in the lion's skin (Jataka) --; title: The dove and the crow (Panchatantra) --; title: The story of Devadatta / Somadeva --; title: The jackal (Hitopadesa) --; title: Jamshid and Zuhak / Firdawsi --; title: The sailor and the pearl merchant / Anonymous --; title: Khaled and Djaida / Al-Asmal --; title: Abou Hassan the wag (Thousand and one nights) --; title: Grendel's raid (Beowulf) --; title: Esyllt and Sabrina / Geoffrey of Monmouth --; title: The humbling of Jovinian (Gesta Romanorum) --; title: Lludd and Llevelys (The Mabinogion) --; title: Launcelot's tourney / Sir Thomas Malory --; title: Roberto's tale / Robert Greene --; title: True relation of the apparition of one Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe --; title: The story of an heir / Joseph Addison --; title: The disabled soldier / Oliver Goldsmith --; title: The bridal of Janet Dalrymple / Sir Walter Scott --; title: The white trout / Samuel Lover --; title: The queer client / Charles Dickens --; title: A terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins --; title: Squire Petrick's lady / Thomas Hardy --; title: Thrawn Janet / Robert Louis Stevenson --; title: The selfish giant / Oscar Wilde --; title: Julia Cahill's curse / George Moore --; title: That brute Simmons / Arthur Morrison. The lay of Hildebrand / Anonymous --; title: Siegfried and Kriemhild (The lay of the Nibelungs) --; title: The coming of Gandin / Gottfried von Strassburg --; title: Bruin the bear & Reynard the fox (Reynard the fox) --; title: Eulenspiegel and the merchant (Eulenspiegel) --; title: Doctor Faust and the usurer (The history of Dr. J. Faust) --; title: The sick wife / Christian Gellert --; title: Little Briar-Rose / The brothers Grimm --; title: The story of Serapion / E.T.A. Hoffmann --; title: The legend of the dance / Gottfried Keller --; title: The fury / Paul Heyse --; title: The triple warning / Arthur Schnitzler --; title: A New-Year's Eve confession / Hermann Sudermann --; title: The divided horsecloth / Bernier --; title: The priest and the mulberries / Anonymous --; title: The lay of the two lovers / Marie de France --; title: The pious lady and the gray friar / Marguerite de Navarre --; title: He who married a dumb wife ; The roast-meat seller / François Rabelais --; title: Little Red Riding-Hood / Charles Perrault --; title: The four friends / Jean de Lafontaine --; title: Memnon the philosopher / Voltaire --; title: Lausus and Lydia / J.F. Marmontel --; title: The mysterious mansion / Honoré de Balzac --; title: Mateo Falcone / Prosper Mérimée --; title: The mummy's foot / Théophile Gautier --; title: The torture of hope / Villiers de L'Isle Adam --; title: The last lesson / Alphonse Daudet --; title: The fairy Amoureuse / Émile Zola --; title: The substitute / François Coppée --; title: Our lady's juggler / Anatole France --; title: The necklace / Guy de Maupassant --; title: The bell of Atri (The hundred ancient tales) --; title: The falcon / Giovanni Boccaccio --; title: Galgano / Ser Giovanni --; title: The two ambassadors / Franco Sacchetti --; title: The cavalier of Toledo / Masuccio (Guardato) --; title: Belphagor / Niccolo Macchiavelli --; title: A king in disguise / Matteo Bandello --; title: The friar of Novara / Agnolo Firenzuola --; title: The Greek merchant / Giovanbattista Giraldi Cinthio --; title: The Venetian silk-mercer / Carlo Gozzi. Cavalleria rusticana / Giovanni Verga --; title: The peasant's will / Antonio Fogazzaro --; title: Mendicant melody / Edmondo de Amicis --; title: Lulu's triumph / Matilde Serao --; title: The hero / Gabriele d'Annunzio --; title: Two miracles / Grazia Deledda --; title: The miracle of the Jew (Chronicle of the Cid) --; title: The son and his friends / Juan Manuel --; title: How Lazaro served a bulero / Diego Hurtado de Mendoza --; title: Guzman and my lord Cardinal / Mateo Alemán --; title: Rinconete and Cortadillo / Miguel Cervantes --; title: The tall woman / Pedro Antonio de Alarcón --; title: Maese Perez, the organist / Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer --; title: Adios, Cordera! / Leopoldo Alas --; title: Story of Ming-Y ; Fickle widow (Marvelous tales) --; title: The virtuous daughter-in-law / Pu Sung-Ling --; title: The forty-seven ronins [ronin] / Anonymous --; title: The pier / Mori Ogwai --; title: A domestic animal / Shimazaki Toson --; title: The higher the flight the lower the fall / Jacob Cats --; title: The story of Saidjah / Eduard Douwes Dekker --; title: Grandfather's birthday present / Herman Heijermans --; title: The invisible wound / Karoly Kisfaludi --; title: A ball / Maurus Jokai --; title: The green fly / Kalman Mikszath --; title: The silver hilt / Ferenc Molnar --; title: The snow storm / Alexander Pushkin --; title: St. John's eve / Nikolai Gogol --; title: The district doctor / Ivan Turgenev --; title: The Christmas tree and the wedding / Feodor Dostoievsky [Dostoyevsky] --; title: The long exile / Leo Tolstoy --; title: The old bell-ringer / Vladimir Korolenko --; title: The signal / Vsevolod Garshin --; title: The bet / Anton Chekhov --; title: One autumn night / Maxim Gorky --; title: Silence / Leonid Andreyev. The lighthouse keeper of Aspinwall / Henryk Sienkiewicz --; title: The human telegraph / Boleslav Prus --; title: Forebodings / Stefan Zeromski --; title: A woman's wrath / Isaac Loeb Peretz --; title: The Passover guest / Sholom Aleichem --; title: A picnic / S. Libin --; title: The Kaddish / Abraham Raisin --; title: Abandoned / Sholom Asch --; title: In the storm / David Pinski --; title: Baldr's bale / Snorri Sturluson --; title: Regin's tale (Volsunga saga) --; title: The shepherdess and the sweep / Hans Christian Andersen --; title: Henrik and Rosalie / Meyer Aron Goldschmidt --; title: Two worlds / Jens Peter Jacobsen --; title: Smith who could not get into hell / Peter Christen Asbjörnsen and Jörgen Moe --; title: The father / Björnstjerne Björnson --; title: Skobelef / Johan Bojer --; title: Love and bread / August Strindberg --; title: The eclipse / Slema Lagerlöf --; title: The falcon / Per Hallström --; title: The mysterious picture / Charles de Coster --; title: The massacre of the innocents / Maurice Maeterlinck --; title: The soul of Veere / Camille Lemonnier --; title: One night / Emile Verhaeren --; title: The neighbor / Antun Gustav Matos --; title: Children and old folk / Ivan Cankar --; title: At the well / Laza K. Lazarevich --; title: The vampire / Jan Neruda --; title: Foltyn's drum / Svatopluk Cech --; title: The priest's tale / Demetrios Bikelas --; title: The Easter torch / I.L. Caragiale --; title: What Vasile saw / Marie, Queen of Roumania --; title: The commissioner's Christmas / Dimitr Ivanov --; title: Chivalry / Ricardo Fernández-García --; title: The attendant's confession / J.M. Machado de Assis --; title: The legend of Pygmalion / Ventura García-Calderón --; title: Creole democracy / Rufíno Blanco-Fombóna --; title: The deaf satyr / Rubén Darío --; title: The specter bridegroom / Washington Irving --; title: Mrs. Bullfrog / Nathaniel Hawthorne --; title: The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe --; title: Journalism in Tennessee / Mark Twain --; title: The man and the snake / Ambrose Bierce --; title: The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte --; title: The story in it / Henry James --; title: King Solomon of Kentucky / James Lane Allen --; title: Miss Tempy's watchers / Sarah Orne Jewett --; title: A letter and a paragraph / Henry Cuyler Bunner --; title: Supply and demand / O. Henry --; title: A dark-brown dog / Stephen Crane --; title: The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser --; title: Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson --; title: A Wagner matinée / Willa Cather --; title: A brown woman / James Branch Cabell.