World's great short stories : masterpieces of American, English and cotinental literature

Author(s)

• Speare, M. Edmund
• Steinbeck, John
• Saki
• Benét, Stephen Vincent
• Hemingway, Ernest
• Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
• Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
• Lardner, Ring
• Twain, Mark
• Bunin, I. A. (Ivan Alekseevich)
• Ewald, Carl
• Pirandello, Luigi
• Parker, Dorothy
• Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)
• Harte, Bret
• Zweig, Stefan
• Maupassant, Guy de
• Poe, Edgar Allan
• Gorʹkiĭ, Maksim
• Stevenson, Robert Louis
• France, Anatole
• Henry, O.
• Balzac, Honoré de

Bibliographic Information

World's great short stories : masterpieces of American, English and cotinental literature

edited, with an introduction, by M. E. Speare

World Pub. Co., c1946

Contents of Works

• The promise / John Steinbeck
• Tobermory / Saki (H. H. Munro)
• The Devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét
• My old man / Ernest Hemingway
• The custody of the pumpkin / P. G. Wodehouse
• Red / W.Somerset Maugham
• Champion / Ring Lardner
• A mediaeval romance / Mark Twain
• Sunstroke / Ivan Bunin
• My little boy / Carl Ewald
• The fly / Luigi Pirandello
• The waltz / Dorothy Parker
• The monkey's paw / W. W. Jacobs
• The postmistress of Laurel Run / Bret Harte
• The invisible collection / Stefan Zweig
• Two friends / Guy de Maupassant
• The pit and the pendulum / Edgar Allan Poe
• Twenty-six and one / Maxim Gorky
• Sire de malétroit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson
• Our lady's juggler / Anatole France
• The cop and the anthem / O. Henry
• The mysterious mansion / Honoré de Balzac

Details

• NCID: BA30111547
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cleveland ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: 315 p.
• Size: 21 cm