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The book of the short story / edited by Henry Seidel Canby and Robeson Bailey.
LIBRA PN6014 .J48 1948
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jessup, Alexander, 1871-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 406 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- New and enlarged edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts, [1948]
- 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)
- Notes:
- A revision of the 1903 edition, ed. by Alexander Jessup and Henry Seidel Canby, with 9 stories added.
- OCLC:
- 296486
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