The Book of the Short Story
By: ed. by Henry Seidel Canby and Robeson Bailey.
Contributors: Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961.; Bailey, Robeson, 1906-
Edition: New and enlarged ed.
Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts
Published: 1948
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 406
Copyright date: 1931
Subjects: Short stories
Notes: A revision of the 1903 edition, ed. by Alexander Jessup and Henry Seidel Canby, with 9 stories added.

--The darling, by Anton Chekhov.--Mrs. Medwin, by Henry James.--The secret sharer, by Joseph Conrad.--A little cloud, by James Joyce.--A dill pickle, by Katherine Mansfield.--Haircut, by Ring Lardner.--The killers, by Ernest Hemingway.--Brother Death, by Sherwood Anderson.--The Devil and Daniel Webster, by S.V. Benet.--A list of representative tales and short stories (p. 391-406)
Table of contents: title: Introduction: pt. 1, by H.S. Canby; pt. 2, by Robeson Bailey; title: The shipwrecked sailor, from an Egyptian papyrus of the XIIth dynasty; title: The book of Ruth, from the Bible; title: The story of Cupid and Psyche, by Apuleius; title: Frederick of the Alberighi and his falcon, by Boccaccio; title: The nun's priest's tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer; title: The story of Ali Baba and the forty robbers destroyed by a slave, from the Thousand and one nights; title: The apparition of Mrs. Veal, by Daniel Defoe; title: Jeannot and Colin, by Voltaire; title: Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving; title: Wandering Willie's tale, by Sir Walter Scott; title: The taking of the redoubt, by Prosper Mérimée; title: La Grande Bretèche, by Honoré de Balzac; title: The cask of Amontillado, by E.A. Poe; title: Ethan Brand, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: Markheim, by R.L. Stevenson; title: A coward, by Guy de Maupassant; title: Without benefit of clergy, by Rudyard Kipling; title: The blue hotel, by Stephen Crane; title: --The darling, by Anton Chekhov; title: Mrs. Medwin, by Henry James; title: The secret sharer, by Joseph Conrad; title: A little cloud, by James Joyce; title: A dill pickle, by Katherine Mansfield; title: Haircut, by Ring Lardner; title: The killers, by Ernest Hemingway; title: Brother Death, by Sherwood Anderson; title: The Devil and Daniel Webster, by S.V. Benet; title: A list of representative tales and short stories (p. 391-406)