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The Book of the Short Story
1948, Appleton-Century-Crofts
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in English
- New and enlarged ed.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: pt. 1, by H.S. Canby; pt. 2, by Robeson Bailey
The shipwrecked sailor, from an Egyptian papyrus of the XIIth dynasty
The book of Ruth, from the Bible
The story of Cupid and Psyche, by Apuleius
Frederick of the Alberighi and his falcon, by Boccaccio
The nun's priest's tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer
The story of Ali Baba and the forty robbers destroyed by a slave, from the Thousand and one nights
The apparition of Mrs. Veal, by Daniel Defoe
Jeannot and Colin, by Voltaire
Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving
Wandering Willie's tale, by Sir Walter Scott
The taking of the redoubt, by Prosper Mérimée
La Grande Bretèche, by Honoré de Balzac
The cask of Amontillado, by E.A. Poe
Ethan Brand, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Markheim, by R.L. Stevenson
A coward, by Guy de Maupassant
Without benefit of clergy, by Rudyard Kipling
The blue hotel, by Stephen Crane
--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)
Edition 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)
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