A selection from the world's greatest short stories : illustrative of the history of short story writing /
illustrative of the history of short story writing, with critical and historical comments.
- Freeport, N.Y : Books for Libraries Press, 1970
- 412 p. ; 21 cm.
Reprint of the 1902 ed.
Patient Griselda, from the Decameron.--Aladdin; or, The wonderful lamp, from The Arabian nights.--Rip Van Winkle, by W. Irving.--A passion in the desert, by H. de Balzac.--A child's dream of a star, by C. Dickens.--A princess's tragedy, from Barry Lyndon, by W. M. Thackery.--The gold-bug, by E. A. Poe.--The great stone face, by N. Hawthorne.--The necklace, and The string, by G. de Maupassant.--The man who would be king, by R. Kipling.--How Gavin Birse put it to Mag Lownie, from A window in Thrums, by J. M. Barrie.--On the stairs, from Tales of Mean Street, by A. Morrison.