| Description |
xii, 1121 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
The doomed Prince / Anonymous -- Ares and Aphrodite / Homer -- Candaules' folly / Herodotus -- Cnemon's story / Heliodorus -- The talkative tortoise / Anonymous -- The butter-blinded Brahman / Anonymous -- Devasmita / Somadeva -- The book of Esther / Old Testament -- Bel and the dragon / The Apocrypha -- Pyramus and Thisbe / Ovid -- Trimalchio's dinner / Petronius -- The three robbers / Apuleius -- Feridun and his three sons / Abul Firdawsi -- The treasure of Mansur / Anonymous -- The jar of olives and the boy Kazi / Anonymous -- Our lady's tumbler / Anonymous -- The husband who was blind of an eye / Marguerite De Navarre -- Blue beard / Charles Perrault -- Jeannot and Colin / Voltaire -- Soliman II / J.F. Marmontel -- The executioner / Honore De Balzac -- The taking of the redoubt / Prosper Merimee -- Omphale: a rococo story / Theophile Gautier -- The heroism of Dr. Hallidonhill / Villiers de L'isle Adam -- The ensign / Alphonse Daudet -- The maid of the Dauber / Emile Zola -- The lost stars / Catulle Mendes -- Constant guinard / Jean Richepin -- The dowry / Guy De Maupassant -- The horse of Genghis Khan / Paul Morand -- The man who tamed the shrew / Juan Manuel -- How Lazaro served a priest / Diego Hurtado de Mendoza -- The mock aunt / Miguel Cervantes -- Paul turns beggar / Francisco De Quevedo -- Bella-Flor / Fernon Caballero -- Cordovans in Crete / Don Juan Valera -- The stub-book / Pedro Antonio Alarcon -- The first prize / Emilia Bazan -- The stone of invisibility / Giovanni Boccacio -- The Usurer's will / Giovan-Francesco Straparola -- The jealous wife / Anton-Francesco Grazzini -- Love triumphant / Giovanbattista Giraldi Cinthio -- Story of the Saint Joseph's ass / Giovanni Verga -- The orderly / Edmondo de Amicis -- Turlendana returns / Gabriele d'Annunzio -- A mere formality / Luigi Pirandello -- Mirrors / Massimo Bontempelli -- The slap / Raffaele Calzini -- The Pardoner's tale / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Sir Simon Eyer / Thomas Deloney -- In defence of his right / Daniel Defoe -- Tom varnish / Richard Steele -- Wandering Willie's tale / Sir Walter Scott -- Paddy at sea / Samuel Lover -- The half-brothers / Elizabeth C. Gaskell -- The convict's return / Charles Dickens -- "Blow up with the brig!" / Wilkie Collins -- Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The clerk's quest / George Moore -- The Sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde -- Il Conde / Joseph Conrad -- The stolen bacillus / H.G. Wells -- Mary with the high hand / Arnold Bennett -- Quality / John Galsworthy -- Two blue birds / D.H. Lawrence -- Mrs. Beelbrow's lions / Stacy Aumonier -- The apple-tree / Katherine Mansfield -- Hubert and Minnie / Aldous Huxley -- Eulenspiegel carries off the Parson's horse / Anonymous -- Dr. Faust arranges a marriage / Anonymous -- The new-year's night of an unhappy man / Jean Paul Richter -- The broken pitcher / Heinrich Zschokke -- The friends / Johann Ludwig Teick -- Rumpelstiltskin / Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm -- The Virgin and the nun / Gottfried Keller -- The victim / Hermann Studermann -- Flowers / Arthur Schnitzler -- The beast / Jacob Wasserman -- A railway accident / Thomas Mann -- Peter Rugg, the missing man / William Austin -- The stout gentleman / Washington Irving -- Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien -- A tale of negative gravity / Frank R. Stockton -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain -- The postmistress of Laurel Run / Francis Bret Harte -- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- Zenobia's infedelity / H.C. Bunner -- Drifting crane / Hamlin Garland -- A New England nun / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- A municipal report / O. Henry -- The debt / Edith Wharton -- Papago wedding / Mary Hunter Austin -- The one hundred dollar bill / Booth Tarkington -- The doomdorf mystery / Melville Davisson Post -- Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson -- Blue murder / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- The coffin-maker / Alexander Pushkin -- The raspberry water / Ivan Turgenev -- The beggar boy at Christ's Christmas tree / Feodor Dostoievsky -- The empty drum / Leo Tolstoy -- The darling / Anton Chekhov -- The white dog / Feodor Sologub -- Her lover / Maxim Gorky -- Caprice / Alexander Kuprin -- The lie / Leonid Andreyev -- The legend / Zygmunt Krasinsky -- Do you remember? / Eliza Orzeszkowa -- Twilight / Wladyslaw Reymont -- The assignation / Karoly Kisfaludi -- The room with forty-eight stars / Maurus Jokai -- The grass of Lohina / Koloman Mikszath -- The dancing bear / Etienne Barsony -- Darkening shadows / Louis Biro -- A reincarnated melody / Isaac Loeb Peretz -- Eva / Sholom Aleichem -- A livelihood / Judah Steinberg -- Military service / Micah Joseph Berdyczewski -- The black cat / David Pinski -- A Jewish child / Sholom Ash -- Winter wolves / Joseph Opatoshu -- The glass house / Camille Lemmonier -- The city hunter / Georges Rodenbach -- The horse fair at Opdorp / Emile Verhaeren -- Johannes attends a party / Frederick W. Van Eeden -- About myself and others / Louis Couperus -- Chicken / Herman Heijermans -- The farm magnate / Monteiro Lobato -- The healer / Manuel Ugarte -- Rip-rip / Manuel Gutierrez-Najera -- The marble bust / Fabio Fiallo -- Nights in Talca / Armando Zegri -- A lodger for the night / Jan Neruda -- The apple-tree / Svatopluk Cech -- The island / Karel Capek -- Happiness / Tedor Panov -- Vouya goes a-wooing / Milovan Glishich -- Ferid / Vladimir Trescec -- The man with the ragged soul / Francis Xavier Mesko -- The sacrifice of Yang Chiao-Ai / Anonymous -- The donkey's revenge / P'u Sung-Ling -- Of a dancing girl / Lafcadio Hearn -- Tsugaru strait / Shimazaki Toson -- The bill-collecting / Nagai Kafu -- The birth of Sinfjotli, the son of Sigmund / Anonymous -- What the old man does is always right / Hans Christian Andersen -- The plague at Bergamo / Jens Peter Jacobsen -- Irene Holm / Hermann Joachim Bang -- Fidelity / Bjornstjerne Bjornson -- The story of a chicken / Jonas Lie -- At the fair / Alexander Keilland -- A funeral / August Strindberg -- The outlaws / Selma Lagerlof -- The fig-tree / Verner Von Heidenstam -- Bear Solomon / Pelle Molin -- A great invention / I.L. Caragiale -- The wanderers / Michael Sadoveanu. |
| Subjects |
Short stories.
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories. lcgft |
| Alt Name |
Williams, Blanche Colton, 1879-1944, editor.
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| LC NO |
PZ1.L62 Gr2 |
| Dewey No |
808.83 L62g |
| OCLC # |
830804 |
| Isn/Std # |
(OCoLC)830804 (OCoLC)220955644 |
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