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An anthology of famous British stories / edited by Bennett Cerf and Henry C. Moriarty.

PR1309.S5 C4 1952

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Cerf, Bennett, 1898-1971.
Contributor:: Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:: Modern library of the world's best books; The Modern library of the world's best books
Standardized Title:: Bedside book of famous British stories
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: Great Britain--Social life and customs--Fiction.; Great Britain.; Manners and customs.; Short stories, English.
Genre:: Fiction.; Short stories, English.
Penn Provenance:: Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Physical Description:: 1233 pages ; 21 cm.
Edition:: [First Modern Library giant edition].
Place of Publication:: New York : Modern Library, [1952]
Contents:: The pardoner's tale / Geoffrey Chaucer; The marvellous adventure of the sword / Sir Thomas Malory; The apparition of Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe; The vision of Mirza / Joseph Addison; Asem, an eastern tale / Oliver Goldsmith; The two drovers / Sir Walter Scott; The iron shroud / William Mudford; The gridiron / Samuel Lover; The house and the brain / E. Bulwer-Lytton; Con Cregan's legacy / Charles Lever; Rab and his friends / John Brown; The half-brothers / Elizabeth C. Gaskell; Sultan stork / William Makepeace Thackeray; A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens; Malachi's cove / Anthony Trollope; The punishment of Shahpesh, the Persian, on Khipil, the builder / George Meredith; The three strangers / Thomas Hardy; Story of a piebald horse / W.H. Hudson; Sire de Malétroit's door ; A lodging for the night / Robert Louis Stevenson; The story of Dr. MacLure / John Watson (Ian MacLaren); Faith / R. Cunninghame Graham; The clerk's quest / George Moore; The birthday of infanta / Oscar Wilde; Youth / Joseph Conrad; The captain of the "Ullswater" / Morley Roberts; The adventure of the speckled band / A. Conan Doyle; The courting of T'nowhead's bell / Sir James Matthew Barrie; The babus of Nayanjore / Sir Rabindranath Tagore; Philippa's fox-hunt / E. Somerville and Martin Ross; The mezzotint / Montague Rhodes James; "Hey diddle diddle, the cat; " / Eden Phillpotts; The adventure of the kind Mr. Smith / William J. Locke; The roll-call of the reef / Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch; That brute Simmons / Arthur Morrison; The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs; The doll in the pink silk dress / Leonard Merrick; The drums of the fore and aft / ; The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling; Red Hanrahan / William Butler Yeats; The country of the blind / H.G. Wells; Mary with the high hand / Arnold Bennett; The apple-tree / John Galsworthy; Action / C.E. Montague; The valley of the beasts / Algernon Blackwood; mrs. Packletide's tiger / Saki; The happy hypocrite / Max Beerbohm; The derelict / H.M. Tomlinson; Red / W. Somerset Maugham; The hammer of God / G.K. Chesterton; The kings of Orion / John Buchan; The stranger in the village / Sir Philip Gibbs; The higgler / A.E. Coppard; The western islands / John Masefield; The sword of Welleran / Lord Dunsany; The celestial omnibus / E.M. Forster; The log of the "Evening star" / Alfred Noyes; Jeeves and the song of songs / P.G. Wodehouse; Three lovers who lost / James Stephens; The dead / James Joyce; Purple and fine linen / May Edginton; Mr. Oddy / Sir Hugh Walpole; A busman's holiday / Francis Brett Young; A sleeping draft / Weston Martyr; The Prussian officer / D.H. Lawrence; Fish are such liars / Roland Pertwee; A source of irritation / Stacy Aumonier; The chink and the child / Thomas Burke; Life of Ma Parker / Katherine Mansfield; A day in a woman's life / Sheila Kaye-Smith; Rivers of Damascus / Donn Byrne; The gioconda smile / Aldous Huxley; The cavalier of the streets / Michael Arlen; The old hunter / Liam O'Flaherty; The white cottage / L.A.G. Strong; The trapper's mates / Henry Williamson; The Forty-Third Division / Ralph Bates; The eyes / Thomas Owen Beachcroft; The betting Scotchman / Anonymous; Bella Fleace gave a party / Evelyn Waugh.
Notes:: Originally published in 1940 under title: The bedside book of famous British stories.
Other Format:: Online version: Cerf, Bennett, 1898-1971. Bedside book of famous British stories. Anthology of famous British stories.
OCLC:: 2360154

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