Selected English short stories. XIX and XX centuries (second series).

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Other Associated Names: Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894, Poe, Edgar Alan, 1809-1849, Lamb, Mary Ann, 1764-1847, Henry, O., Harland, Henry, 1861-1905, Grant, Charles, 1841-1899, James, Henry, 1843-1916, Gissing, George, 1857-1903, Gilchrist, R. Murray, 1869-1917, Collins, William Wilkie, 1824-1889, Cornish, Gerald Ware, 1875-1916, Bierce, Ambrose, Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906, Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, Harte, Bret, 1836-1902, Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864, Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834, Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900, White, William Hale, 1831-1913
Language:English
Published: London : O.U.P, 1930.
Series:World's Classics ; no. 228
Collection:Later additions
Content Notes and Catalogue Entries:
  • Entry in cat. under Short stories.
  • Contents: The birthday of the Infanta / by Oscar Wilde, pp. 358-379.
  • Contents: The gift of the Magi; A municipal report & Madame Bo-Peep / O. Henry, pp.406-451.
  • Contents: The Maypole of Merry Mount; The Grey Champion; Roger Malvin's Burial; Old Esther Dudley / Nathaniel Hawthorne, pp.19-77.
  • Contents: A poor gentleman / George Gissing, pp.380-395.
  • Contents: Amanda the Miracle Worker / Richard Garnett, pp.177-189.
  • Contents: A Horseman in the Sky / Ambrose Bierce, pp.252-259.
  • Contents: The Holly Tree / Charles Dickens, pp.108-147.
  • Contents: The Stowaway / Gerald Cornish, pp.462-483.
  • Contents: A Terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins, pp.148-168.
  • Contents: The Gap in the Wall, and A witch in the Peak / R.M. Gilchrist, pp.452-461.
  • Contents: Peppiniello / CharlesGrant, pp.220-51.
  • Contents: The outcasts of Poker Flat / F.B. Harte, pp.190-202.
  • Contents: How Santa Claus came / F.B. Harte, pp.202-219.
  • Contents: The House of Eulalie / Henry Harland, pp.396-405.
  • Contents: Owen Wingrave; Four Meetings / Henry James, pp.260-333.
  • Contents: The Sailor Uncle / Mary Lamb, pp.1-11.
  • Contents: First going to church / Charles Lamb, pp.12-19.
  • Contents: The Purloined letter; The Cask of Amontillado, / by Edgar Alan Poe, pp.78-107.
  • Contents: The Sire de Maletroti's door / by Robert Louis Stevenson, pp. 324-357.
  • Contents: The Sweetness of a man's friend / by Mark Rutherford [i.e. William Hale White], pp.169-176.

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