Selected English short stories, XIX and XX centuries.  (Second series)
Series: The world's classics, 228
Publisher: Univ. Press
Published: 1930
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 483
Subjects: Short stories, English
Table of contents: title: Mary Ann Lamb: The sailor unvle.-  Charles Lamb: First going to church.-  Nathaniel Hawthorne: The maypole of Merry Mount; The Grey Champion; Roger Malvin's burial; Old Esther Dudley.-  Edgar Allan Poe: The purloined letter; The cask of Amontillado.-  Charles Dickens: The holly tree.-  William Wilkie Collins: A terribly strange bed.-  William Hale White (Mark Rutherford): The sweetness of a man's friend.-  Richard Garnett: Amanda the miracle worker.-  Francis Bret Harte: The outcasts of Poker Flat; How Santa Claus came to Simpson's Bar.-  Charles Grant: Peppiniello.-  Ambrose Bierce: A horseman in the sky.-  Henry James: Owen Wingrave.-  Robert Louis Stevenson: The Sire de Malétroit's door.-  Oscar Wilde: The birthday of the Infanta.-  George Gissing: A poor gentleman.- Henry Harland: The house of Eulalie.-  William Sydney Porter (O. Henry): The gift of the Magi; A municipal report; Madame Bo-Peep of the ranches.- R. Murray Gilchrist: The gap in the wall; A witch in the peak.-  Gerald Warre Cornish: The stowaway.