Great short stories of the world
30 classic tales
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Author
- Lois Hill
- Irving, Washington
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Frank R. Stockton
- Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
- Bierce, Ambrose
- O. Henry
- George Ade
- Virginia Tracy
- Mulloy Finnegan
- Booth Tarkington
- George Parsons Lathrop
- Henry Beach Needham
- Nikolaj Dmitrievič Telešov
- Dumas, Alexandre
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
- Guy de Maupassant
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- August Strindberg
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Максим Горький
- Théophile Gautier
- Gabriele D'Annunzio
- Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
- Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
- Alfred de Musset
- Leo Tolstoy
Contributions
- Bierce, Ambrose. - Contributor
- Hill, Lois. - Contributor
Publication
1990 - Chancellor Press, London, United States
Language
English
Word Count
101,750 words, Guess
Page Count
407 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivegreatshortstorie0000unse_u7j5
- ISBN-101851520880
- ISBN-139781851520886
- LibraryThing43744
- OCLC Control Number32228534
and 5 more
- Better World BooksKQ-281-788
- Better World BooksKR-061-530
- Better World BooksKO-622-905
- Better World BooksKO-887-489
- Open LibraryOL22363794M
Description
Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe -- The great stone face / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- My terninal moriane / Frank R. Stockton -- The indian's hand / Lorimer Stoddard -- A good-for-nothing / Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen -- [The Damned Thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W/The_Damned_Thing) / Ambrose Bierce -- The phonograph and the graft / O. Henry -- "To make a Hoosier holiday" / George Ade -- The lotus eaters / Virginia Tracy -- Out of the storm / Mulloy Finnegan -- Mrs. Protheroe / Booth Tarkington -- In each other's shoes / George Parsons Lathrop -- The polite horse / Henry Beach Needham -- The duel / Nikolai Teleshov -- The hanging at La Piroche / Alexandre Dumas, fils -- A work of art / Anton Chekhov -- The bit of string / Guy de Maupassant -- [Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia) / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Love and bread / Jean August Strindberg -- The suicide club / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Boless / Maxim Gorki -- The mummy's foot / Theophile Gautier -- The end of candia / Gabriele d'Annunzio -- The cloak / Nikolai Gogol -- Railroad and churchyard / Björnstjerne Björnson -- The sire de Malétroit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The thief / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- The beauty spot / Alfred de Musset -- The long exile / Leo Tolstoy.
Subjects
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- Great short stories of the world
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