Short Stories, the ultimate collection, on CD from B&R Samizdat Express

Short Stories -- the ultimate collection, on CD ROM

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"...Richard Seltzer has compiled a fantastic selection of short stories. This collection features a cross section of short stories from around the world...The short stories in this colleciton offer readers a unique opportunity to compare the various techniques used in crafting a masterful short story, and to experience how this literary form differs from country to country... The works contained in this collection are all works currently in the public domain... By default, this is a collection of classic short stories. These are the stories that you will most often be required to read in high school and college, because they are stories that have withstood the test of time and have emerged as stellar examples of the literary form...This is a collection that will delight readers of every ilk, with short stories that run the gamut form westerns to stories about love and faith." The complete review

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Anthologies
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Canadian
Danish
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French
German
Greek
Indian
Irish
Italian
Japan
Norwegian
Polish
Roman
Russian
South African
Spanish
Swedish

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About Short Stories

Short Story Writing, a Practical Treatise ont he Art of the Short Story by Charles Raymond Barrett
The Short-Story, with Introduction and Notes by W. Patterson Atkinson, 1916

Anthologies

Best British Short Stories of 1922, edited by Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos

Where Was Wych Street?, By Stacy Aumonier
The Olive, By Algernon Blackwood
Once A Hero, By Harold Brighouse
The Pensioner, By William Caine
Broadsheet Ballad, By A. E. Coppard
The Christmas Present, By Richmal Crompton
"Genius", By Elinor Mordaunt
The Devil To Pay, By Max Pemberton
Empty Arms, By Roland Pertwee
Lena Wrace, By May Sinclair
The Woman Who Sat Still, By Parry Truscott
Major Wilbraham, By Hugh Walpole

Best Short Stories of 1915, edited by Edward J. O'Brien

THE WATER-HOLE. By Maxwell Struthers Burt (From _Scribner's Magazine_)
THE WAKE. By Donn Byrne (From _Harper's Magazine_)
CHAUTONVILLE. By Will Levington Comfort (From _The Masses_)
LA DERNIERE MOBILISATION. By W.A. Dwiggins (From _The Fabulist_)
THE CITIZEN. By James Francis Dwyer (From _Collier's Weekly_)
WHOSE DOG--? By Frances Gregg (From _The Forum_)
LIFE. By Ben Hecht (From _The Little Review_)
T.B. By Fannie Hurst (From _The Saturday Evening Post_)
MR. EBERDEEN'S HOUSE. By Arthur Johnson (From _The Century_)
VENGEANCE IS MINE. By Virgil Jordan (From _Everybody's Magazine_)
THE WEAVER WHO CLAD THE SUMMER. By Harris Merton Lyon (From _The Illustrated Sunday Magazine_)
HEART OF YOUTH. By Walter J. Muilenburg (From _The Midland_)
THE END OF THE PATH. By Newbold Noyes (From _Every Week_)
THE WHALE AND THE GRASSHOPPER. By Seumas O'Brien (From _The Illustrated Sunday Magazine_)
IN BERLIN. By Mary Boyle O'Reilly (From _The Boston Daily Advertiser_)
THE WAITING YEARS. By Katharine Metcalf Roof (From _The Century Magazine_)
ZELIG. By Benjamin Rosenblatt (From _The Bellman_)
THE SURVIVORS. By Elsie Singmaster (From _The Outlook_)
THE YELLOW CAT. By Wilbur Daniel Steele (From _Harper's Magazine_)
THE BOUNTY-JUMPER. By Mary Synon (From _Scribner's Magazine_)

Best Short Stories of 1917, edited by Edward J. O'Brien

THE EXCURSION. By Edwina Stanton Babcock (From _The Pictorial Review_)
ONNIE. By Thomas Beer (From _The Century Magazine_)
A CUP OF TEA. By Maxwell Struthers Burt (From _Scribner's Magazine_)
LONELY PLACES. By Francis Buzzell (From _The Pictorial Review_)
BOYS WILL BE BOYS. By Irvin S. Cobb (From _The Saturday Evening Post_)
LAUGHTER. By Charles Caldwell Dobie (From _Harper's Magazine_)
THE EMPEROR OF ELAM. By H. G. Dwight (From _The Century Magazine_)
THE GAY OLD DOG. By Edna Ferber (From _The Metropolitan Magazine_)
THE KNIGHT'S MOVE. By Katharine Fullerton Gerould (From _The Atlantic Monthly_)
A JURY OF HER PEERS. By Susan Glaspell (From _Every Week_)
THE BUNKER MOUSE. By Frederick Stuart Greene (From _The Century Magazine_)
RAINBOW PETE. By Richard Matthews Hallet (From _The Pictorial Review_)
GET READY THE WREATHS. By Fannie Hurst (From _The Cosmopolitan Magazine_)
THE STRANGE-LOOKING MAN. By Fanny Kemble Johnson (From _The Pagan_)
THE CALLER IN THE NIGHT. By Burton Kline (From _The Stratford Journal_)
THE INTERVAL. By Vincent O'Sullivan (From _The Boston Evening Transcript_)
"A CERTAIN RICH MAN--." By Lawrence Perry (From _Scribner's Magazine_)
THE PATH OF GLORY. By Mary Brecht Pulver (From _The Saturday Evening Post_)
CHING, CHING, CHINAMAN. By Wilbur Daniel Steele (From _The Pictorial Review_)
NONE SO BLIND. By Mary Synon (From _Harper's Magazine_)

Best Short Stories of 1920, edited by Edward J. O'Brien

The Other Woman. By Sherwood Anderson (From _The Little Review_)
Gargoyle. By Edwina Stanton Babcock (From _Harper's Magazine_)
Ghitza. By Konrad Bercovici (From _The Dial_)
The Life of Five Points. By Edna Clare Bryner (From _The Dial_)
The Signal Tower. By Wadsworth Camp (From _The Metropolitan_)
The Parting Genius. By Helen Coale Crew (From _The Midland_)
Habakkuk. By Katharine Fullerton Gerould (From _Scribner's Magazine_)
The Judgment of Vulcan. By Lee Foster Hartman (From _Harper's Magazine_)
The Stick-in-the-Muds. By Rupert Hughes (From _Collier's Weekly_)
His Job. By Grace Sartwell Mason (From _Scribner's Magazine_)
The Rending. By James Oppenheim (From _The Dial_)
The Dummy-Chucker. By Arthur Somers Roche (From _The Cosmopolitan_)
Butterflies. By Rose Sidney (From _The Pictorial Review_)
The Rotter. By Fleta Campbell Springer (From _Harper's Magazine_)
Out of Exile. By Wilbur Daniel Steele (From _The Pictorial Review_)
The Three Telegrams. By Ethel Storm (From _The Ladies' Home Journal_)
The Roman Bath. By John T. Wheelwright (From _Scribner's Magazine_)
Amazement. By Stephen French Whitman (From _Harper's Magazine_)
Sheener. By Ben Ames Williams (From _Collier's Weekly_)
Turkey Red. By Frances Gilchrist Wood (From _The Pictorial Review_)

Best Short Stories of 1921, edited by Edward J. O'Brien

BROTHERS. By Sherwood Anderson. (From _The Bookman_)
FANUTZA. By Konrad Bercovici. (From _The Dial_)
EXPERIMENT. By Maxwell Struthers Burt. (From _The Pictorial Review_)
DARKNESS. By Irvin S. Cobb. (From _The Saturday Evening Post_)
AN INSTRUMENT OF THE GODS. By Lincoln Colcord. (From _The American Magazine_)
THE LIZARD GOD. By Charles J. Finger. (From _All's Well_)
UNDER THE DOME. By Waldo Frank. (From _The Dial_)
FRENCH EVA. By Katharine Fullerton Gerould. (From _Scribner's Magazine_)
THE PAST. By Ellen Glasgow. (From _Good Housekeeping_)
HIS SMILE. By Susan Glaspell. (From _The Pictorial Review_)
THE HARBOR MASTER. By Richard Matthews Hallet. (From _Harper's Magazine_)
GREEN GARDENS. By Frances Noyes Hart. (From _Scribner's Magazine_)
SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY. By Fannie Hurst. (From _The Cosmopolitan_)
THE LITTLE MASTER OF THE SKY. By Manuel Komroff. (From _The Dial_)
THE MAN WITH THE GOOD FACE. By Frank Luther Mott. (From _The Midland_)
MASTER OF FALLEN YEARS. By Vincent O'Sullivan. (From _The Smart Set_)
THE SHAME DANCE. By Wilbur Daniel Steele. (From _Harper's Magazine_)
KINDRED. By Harriet Maxon Thayer. (From _The Midland_)
SHELBY. By Charles Hanson Towne. (From _The Smart Set_)
THE WALLOW OF THE SEA. By Mary Heaton Vorse. (From _Harper's Magazine_)

Golden Stories: a Selection of the Best Fiction by the foremost Writers

The Night Express by Fred M. White
Over the Garden Wall by Louise Hamilton Mabie
Rural Insurance by Clotilde Graves
His Honor, the District Judge, a Tale of India by John Le Breton
A Fog-Horn Conclusion by Fox Russell
Mary Jane's Diversion, a Western Tale by Charles Alden Seltzer
Between Friends, a Story of the Italian Quarter by Adriana Spadoni
The Hammerpond Burglary by H.G. Wells
A Fo'c's'le Tragedy by Percy Longhurst
The Adopted Son, a Tale of Peasant Life by Guy de Maupassant
Providence and Mrs. Urmy by Armiger Barclay and Oliver Sandys
The Million Dollar Freight Train by Frank H. Spearman
The Bulldog Breed, a Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Ambrose Pratt
Ice in June, a Playwright's Story by Fred M. White
The Ditty-Box, a Pawnbroker's Story by Owen Oliver
The Yellow Cat, an Idyll of the Summer by Annie E.P. Searing
A Cock and Policeman, a Tale of Rural England by Ralph Kaye Assheton
Prisoners in the Tower, an Episode of Travel by Lucy Copinger
Sankey's Double-Header, a Winter's Tale by Frank H. Spearman
Aunt Mary Telepgraphs, a Comedy of Everyday Life by Lloyd E. Lonergan
The Vengeance of the Wolf, a Drama in Wales by J. Aquila Kempster
The Wooing of Betina, a Story of Finance by W.Y. Sheppard
The Jam God, a Tale of Nigeria by H.M. Egbert

The Best Ghost Stories (Modern Library)

THE APPARITION OF MRS. VEAL by Daniel De Foe
CANON ALBERIC'S SCRAP-BOOK by Montague Rhodes James
THE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
THE SILENT WOMAN by Leopold Kompert
BANSHEES
THE MAN WHO WENT TOO FAR by E.F. Benson
THE WOMAN'S GHOST STORY by Algernon Blackwood
THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW by Rudyard Kipling
THE RIVAL GHOSTS by Brander Matthews
THE DAMNED THING by Ambrose Bierce
THE INTERVAL by Vincent O'Sullivan
DEY AIN'T NO GHOSTS by Ellis Parker Butler
SOME REAL AMERICAN GHOSTS

Famous Modern Ghost Stories, selected by Dorothy Scarborough

THE WILLOWS BY ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
THE SHADOWS ON THE WALL BY MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
THE MESSENGER BY ROBERT W. CHAMBERS
LAZARUS BY LEONID ANDREYEV
THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS BY W. F. HARVEY
THE MASS OF SHADOWS BY ANATOLE FRANCE
WHAT WAS IT? BY FITZ-JAMES O'BRIEN
THE MIDDLE TOE OF THE RIGHT FOOT BY AMBROSE BIERCE
THE SHELL OF SENSE BY OLIVIA HOWARD DUNBAR
THE WOMAN AT SEVEN BROTHERS BY WILBUR DANIEL STEELE
AT THE GATE BY MYLA JO CLOSSER
LIGEIA BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
THE HAUNTED ORCHARD BY RICHARD LE GALLIENNE
THE BOWMEN BY ARTHUR MACHEN
A GHOST BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT

The Haunters and the Hautned, Ghost Stories and Tales of the Supernatural, edited by Ernest Rhys
Stories of Mystery edited by Rossiter Johnson

THE GHOST . . . . . . . . . . . . . _William D. O'Connor_
THE FOUR-FIFTEEN EXPRESS . . . . . . _Amelia B. Edwards_
THE SIGNAL-MAN . . . . . . . . . . . _Charles Dickens_
THE HAUNTED SHIPS . . . . . . . . . _Allan Cunningham_
A RAFT THAT NO MAN MADE . . . . . . _Robert T.S. Lowell_
THE INVISIBLE PRINCESS . . . . . . . _Francis O'Connor_
THE ADVOCATE'S WEDDING-DAY . . . . . _Catherine Crowe_
THE BIRTHMARK . . . . . . . . . . . _Nathaniel Hawthorne_

Stories of Comedy edited by Rossiter Johnson

BARNY O'REIRDON THE NAVIGATOR _Samuel Lover_ 7
HADDAD-BEN-AHAB THE TRAVELLER _John Galt_ 58
BLUEBEARD'S GHOST _Wm. M. Thackeray_ 67
THE PICNIC PARTY _Horace Smith_ 102
FATHER TOM AND THE POPE _Samuel Ferguson_ 131
JOHNNY DARBYSHIRE _William Howitt_ 168
THE GRIDIRON _Samuel Lover_ 206
THE BOX TUNNEL _Charles Reade_ 217

Great Sea Stories, edited by Joseph Lewis French

Spanish Bloodhounds and English Mastiffs, From "Westward Ho!" By CHARLES KINGSLEY
The Club-Hauling of the _Diomede_, From "Peter Simple." By CAPTAIN FREDERICK MARRYAT
The Cruise of the _Torch_, From "Tom Cringle's Log." By MICHAEL SCOTT
The Merchantman and the Pirate, From "Hard Cash." By CHARLES READE
The Mutiny of the _Bounty_, From "Chamber's Miscellany." ANONYMOUS
The Wreck of the _Royal Caroline_, From "The Red Rover." By JAMES FENNIMORE COOPER
The Capture of the Great White Whale, From "Moby Dick." By HERMAN MELVILLE
The Corvette _Claymore_, From "Ninety-three." By VICTOR HUGO
The Merchants' Cup, From "Broken Stowage." By DAVID W. BONE
A Storm and a Rescue, From "The Wreck of the _Grosvenor_." By W. CLARK RUSSELL
The Sailor's Wife, From "An Iceland Fisherman." By PIERRE LOTI
The Salving of the _Yan-Shan_, From "In Blue Waters." By H. DE VERE STACKPOOLE
The Derelict _Neptune_, From "Spun Gold." By MORGAN ROBERTSON
The Terrible Solomons, From "South Sea Tales." By JACK LONDON
El Dorado, From "A Tarpaulin Muster." By JOHN MASEFIELD

The Spinners' Book of Fiction

CONCHA ARGUELLO, SISTER DOMINICA by Gertrude Atherton
THE FORD OF CREVECOEUR by Mary Austin
A CALIFORNIAN by Geraldine Bonner
GIDEON'S KNOCK by Mary Halleck Foote
A YELLOW MAN AND A WHITE by Eleanor Gates
THE JUDGMENT OF MAN by James Hopper
THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN by Jack London
DOWN THE FLUME WITH THE SNEATH PIANO by Bailey Millard
THE CONTUMACY OF SARAH L. WALKER by Miriam Michelson
BREAKING THROUGH by W. C. Morrow
A LOST STORY by Frank Norris
HANTU by Henry Milner Rideout
MISS. JUNO by Charles Warren Stoddard
A LITTLE SAVAGE GENTLEMAN by Isobel Strong
LOVE AND ADVERTISING by Richard Walton Tully
THE TEWANA by Herman Whitaker

Short Stories of Various Types, edited by Laura F. Freck

O. Henry: The Gift of the Magi
Booth Tarkington: A Reward of Merit
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews: "American, Sir!"
Katherine Mayo: John G.
Myra Kelly: Friends
Hamlin Garland: A Camping Trip
Dorothy Canfield Fisher: A Thread Without a Knot
Francis Bret Harte: Chu Chu
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Feathertop
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Red-Headed League
James Matthew Barrie: The Inconsiderate Waiter
Alphonse Daudet: The Siege of Berlin
Selma Lagerloef: The Silver Mine

Tales from Many Sources, volume 5

LOB LIE-BY-THE-FIRE. BY JULIANA H. EWING.
WILD JACK. FROM TEMPLE BAR.
VIRGINIA. BY MRS. FORRESTER.
MR. JOSIAH SMITH'S BALLOON VOYAGE. FROM BELGRAVIA.
NUMBER 7639. BY MARY FRANCES PEARD.
GONERIL. BY A. MARY F. ROBINSON.
OUT OF SEASON. FROM TEMPLE BAR.

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, edited by Julian Hawthorne

volume 2, French, Italian, Spanish, and Latin Mystery Stories

HENRI RENE ALBERT GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1850-93).

The Necklace
The Man with the Pale Eyes
An Uncomfortable Bed
Ghosts
Fear
The Confession
The Horla

PIERRE MILLE.

The Miracle of Zobeide

VILLIERS DE L'ISLE ADAM.

The Torture by Hope

ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN (1822-99)--(1826-90).

The Owl's Ear
The Invisible Eye
The Waters of Death

HONORE DE BALZAC (1799-1850).

Melmoth Reconciled
The Conscript

JEAN FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (1694-1778).

Zadig the Babylonian

PEDRO DE ALARCON.

The Nail

LUIGI CAPUANA (1839-00).

The Deposition

LUCIUS APULEIUS (Second Century).

The Adventure of the Three Robbers

PLINY, THE YOUNGER (First Century).

Letter to Sura

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories

1919

ENGLAND TO AMERICA. By Margaret Prescott Montague
"FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO." By Wilbur Daniel Steele
THEY GRIND EXCEEDING SMALL. By Ben Ames Williams
ON STRIKE. By Albert Payson Terhune.
THE ELEPHANT REMEMBERS. By Edison Marshall
TURKEY RED. By Frances Gilchrist Wood
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD. By Melville Davisson Post
THE BLOOD OF THE DRAGON. By Thomas Grant Springer
"HUMORESQUE." By Fannie Hurst
THE LUBBENY KISS. By Louise Rice.
THE TRIAL IN TOM BELCHER'S STORE. By Samuel A. Derieux
PORCELAIN CUPS. By James Branch Cabell
THE HIGH COST OF CONSCIENCE. By Beatrice Ravenel
THE KITCHEN GODS. By G.F. Alsop
APRIL 25TH, AS USUAL. By Edna Ferber

1920

EACH IN HIS GENERATION. By Maxwell Struthers Burt
"CONTACT!" By Frances Noyes Hart
THE CAMEL'S BACK. By F. Scott Fitzgerald
BREAK-NECK HILL. By Esther Forbes
BLACK ART AND AMBROSE. By Guy Gilpatric
THE JUDGMENT OF VULCAN. By Lee Foster Hartman
THE ARGOSIES. By Alexander Hull
ALMA MATER. By O. F. Lewis
SLOW POISON. By Alice Duer Miller
THE FACE IN THE WINDOW. By William Dudley Pelley
A MATTER OF LOYALTY. By Lawrence Perry
PROFESSOR TODD'S USED CAR. By L.H. Robbins
THE THING THEY LOVED. By "Marice Rutledge"
BUTTERFLIES. By "Rose Sidney"
NO FLOWERS. By Gordon Arthur Smith
FOOTFALLS. By Wilbur Daniel Steele
THE LAST ROOM OF ALL. By Stephen French Whitman

1921

THE HEART OF LITTLE SHIKARA. By Edison Marshall
THE MAN WHO CURSED THE LILIES. By Charles Tenney Jackson
THE URGE. By Maryland Allen
MUMMERY. By Thomas Beer
THE VICTIM OF HIS VISION. By Gerald Chittenden
MARTIN GERRITY GETS EVEN. By Courtney Ryley Cooper and Leo F. Creagan
STRANGER THINGS. By Mildred Cram
COMET. By Samuel A. Derieux
FIFTY-TWO WEEKS FOR FLORETTE. By Elizabeth Alexander Heermann
WILD EARTH. By Sophie Kerr
THE TRIBUTE. By Harry Anable Kniffin
THE GET-AWAY. By O.F. Lewis
"AURORE." By Ethel Watts Mumford
MR. DOWNEY SITS DOWN. By L.H. Robbins
THE MARRIAGE IN KAIRWAN. By Wilbur Daniel Steele
GRIT. By Tristram Tupper

The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories - Old Time English, Edited by Julian Hawthorne

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

The Haunted House
No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal Man

Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

The Haunted and the Haunters, or The House and the Brain
The Incantation

Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859)

The Avenger

Charles Robert Maturin (1782-1824)

Melmoth the Wanderer

Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)

A Mystery with a Moral

William Makepiece Thackeray (1811-1863)

On Being Found Out
The Notch on the Ax

Anonymous

Bourgonef
The Closed Cabinet

The Lock and Key Library: Detective and Magic Stories from Real Life, Edited by Julian Hawthorne

Part 1 -- Detective Stories from Real Life

Arthur Train

A Flight into Texas

P.H. Woodward

Adventures in the Secret Service of the Post-Office Department
An Erring Shepherd
An Aspirant for Congress
The Fortune of Seth Savage
A Wish Unexpectedly Gratified
An Old Game Revived
A Formidable Weapon

Andrew Lang

Saint-Germain the Deathless
The Man in the Iron Mask

The Legend
The Valet's History
The Valet's Master
Original Papers in the Case of Roux De Marsilly

Part 2 -- True Stories of Modern Magic

M. Robert-Houdin

A Conjurer's Confessions

Self-Training
"Second Sight"
The Magician Who Became an Ambassador
Facing the Arab's Pistol

David P. Abbott

Fraudulent Spiritualism Unveiled

A Doctor of the Occult
How the Tricks Succeeded
The Name of the Dead
Mind Reading in Public
Some Famous Exposures

Hereward Carrington

More Tricks of "Spiritualism"

"Matter through Matter"
Deception Explained by the Science of Psychology

Anonymous

How Spirits Materialize

The Lock and Key Library: the Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: American, Edited by Julian Hawthorne

Julian Hawthorne

Introduction: Riddle Stories

F. Marion Crawford (born 1854)

By the Waters of Paradise

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (born 1862)

The Shadows on the Wall

Melville D. Post (born 1871)

The Corpus Delicti

Ambrose Bierce (born 1842)

An Heiress from Redhorse
The Man and the Snake

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

The Oblong Box
The Gold-Bug

Washington Irving (1783-1859)

Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams
Adventure of the Black Fisherman

Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)

Wieland's Madness

FitzJames O'Brien (1828-1862)

The Golden Ingot
My Wife's Tempter

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

The Minister's Black Veil

Anonymous

Horror: A True Tale

The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English: Edited by Julian Hawthorne

Arthur Conan Doyle (born 1859)

A Case of Identity
A Scandal in Bohemia
The Red-Headed League

Egerton Castle (born 1858)

The Baron's Quarry

Stanley J. Weyman (born 1855)

The Fowl in the Pot

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

The Pavilion on the Links

Wilkie Collins (1824-89)

The Dream Woman

Anonymous

The Lost Duchess
The Minor Canon
The Pipe
The Puzzle
The Great Valdez Sapphire

The Lock and Key Library: the Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: French, Edited by Julian Hawthorne

Victor Cherbuliez

Count Kostia

Paul Bourget

Andre Cornelis

Anonymous

The Last of the Costellos
Lady Betty's Indiscretion

Master Tales of Mystery, volume 3, edited by Francis J. Reynolds

ARTHUR B. REEVE

THE POISONED PEN
THE INVISIBLE RAT
THE SILENT BULLET
THE DEADLY TUBS
THE BLACK HAND
THE STEEL DOOR

PAUL L. FORD

GREAT K. & A. TRAIN ROBBERY

MAX PEMBERTON

THE RISEN DEAD

GEO.B. McCUTCHEON

COWARDICE COURT

BURTON E. STEVENSON

THE CASE OF MRS. MAGNUS

JOSEPH ERNEST

THE EPISODE or THE BLACK CASQUETTE

MARJORIE L.C. PICKTHALL

CHEAP

Not Pretty, but Precious and Other Stories

Not Pretty, but Precious, Margret Field
The Victims of Dreams, Margaret Hosmer
The Cold Hand, Clara F. Guernsey
The Blood Seedling, John Hay
The Marquis, Chauncey Hickox
Under False Colors, Lucy Hamilton Hooper
The Hungry Heart, J.W. De Forrest
"How Mother Did It," J.R. Hadermann
The Red Fox, Clara F. Guernsey
Louie, Harriet Prescott Spofford
Old Sadler'S Resurrection, R.D. Minor

Quaint Courtships, edited by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden

MARGARET DELAND

AN ENCORE

NORMAN DUNCAN

A ROMANCE OF WHOOPING HARBOR

MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN

HYACINTHUS

SEWELL FORD

JANE'S GRAY EYES

HERMAN WHITAKER

A STIFF CONDITION

MAY HARRIS

IN THE INTERESTS OF CHRISTOPHER

FRANCIS WILLING WHARTON

THE WRONG DOOR

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

BRAYBRIDGE'S OFFER

ELIA W. PEATTIE

THE RUBAIYAT AND THE LINER

ANNIE HAMILTON DONNELL

THE MINISTER

Short Stories for English Courses, edited by Rosa Mikels

THE FIRST CHRISTMAS-TREE Henry van Dyke
A FRENCH TAR-BABY Joel Chandler Harris
SONNY'S CHRISTENIN' Ruth McEnery Stuart
CHRISTMAS NIGHT WITH SATAN John Fox, Jr.
A NEST-EGG James Whitcomb Riley
THE GOLD BUG Edgar Allan Poe
THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF O. Henry
THE FRESHMAN FULL-BACK Ralph D. Paine
GALLEGHER Richard Harding Davis
THE JUMPING FROG Mark Twain
THE LADY OR THE TIGER? Frank R. Stockton
THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT Francis Bret Harte
THE REVOLT OF MOTHER Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
MARSE CHAN Thomas Nelson Page
"POSSON JONE'" George W. Cable
OUR AROMATIC UNCLE Henry Cuyler Bunner
QUALITY John Galsworthy
THE TRIUMPH OF NIGHT Edith Wharton
A MESSENGER Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
MARKHEIM Robert Louis Stevenson.

Short Stories Old and New edited by C. Alphonso Smith, 1916

ESTHER, From the Old Testament

Stories Worth Rereading

THEIR WORD OF HONOR
MURIEL'S BRIGHT IDEA
THE STRENGTH OF CLINTON
THE DOCTOR'S COW
HONEY AT THE PHONE
ONE OF FATHER'S STORIES
WHAT RUM DOES
MY MOTHER'S RING
THE BRIDAL WINE-CUP
A MOTHER'S SORROW
THE REPRIMAND
AN EXAMPLE
FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT
TIGHTENING THE SADDLE-GIRTH
"HERRINGS FOR NOTHING"
THE POWER OF SONG
JACK'S FIDELITY
HONOR THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER
THE SLEIGH-RIDE
SAMUEL SMILES, THE AUTHOR OF "SELF-HELP"
DAVID LIVINGSTONE
A TRUE INCIDENT OF THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE
LITTLE CORNERS
IN THE HOME
GIANTS AND GRASSHOPPERS
AS GOOD AS HIS BOND
PLAIN BERNICE
HOW THE BOY WITHOUT A REFERENCE FOUND ONE
AN HOUR A DAY FOR A YEAR
"PLEASE, SIR, I WOULD RATHER NOT"
THE RIGHT WORD
THE SADDEST OF INDIA'S PICTURES (1912)
ONE LITTLE WIDOW
WHY THE MITE BOXES WERE FULL
TI-TO AND THE BOXERS
HOW NYANGANDI SWAM TO CHURCH
THE LITTLE PRINTER MISSIONARY
THE MISSIONARY'S DEFENSE
LIGHT AT LAST
THE BROWN TOWEL
ONLY A BOY
THE LITTLE PROTECTOR
MOFFAT AND AFRICANER
TWO TRIFLES
A SECOND TRIAL
THE SIN OF EXTRAVAGANCE
A LITTLE CHILD'S WORK
THE HANDY BOX
THE RESULT OF DISOBEDIENCE
LIVINGSTONE'S BODY-GUARD
SPARE MOMENTS
A GOLD MEDAL
A GIRL'S RAILWAY ACQUAINTANCE
HAROLD'S FOOTMAN
ELNATHAN'S GOLD
ONLY A JACK-KNIFE
A SPELLING-BEE
JACK'S QUEER WAYS
WHAT ONE BOY DID
HOW NICK LEARNED MANNERS
WITHOUT BALLAST
INFLUENCE OF A GOOD BOOK
"STRAIGHTENING OUT THE FURROWS"
A BOY WHO WAS WANTED
WANTED: AN EMPLOYER
HOW TO STOP SWEARING
THE CAROLS OF BETHLEHEM CENTER
STANDING BEAR'S SPEECH
MABEL ASHTON'S DREAM
A SAD BUT TRUE STORY
"THE MAN THAT DIED FOR ME"
OUR GRASS RUG AND--OTHER THINGS

Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship

ANGELA, An Inverted Love Story, by William Schwenk Gilbert
THE PARSON'S DAUGHTER OF OXNEY COLNE, by Anthony Trollope
ANTHONY GARSTIN'S COURTSHIP, by Hubert Crackanthorpe
A LITTLE GREY GLOVE, by George Egerton (Mary Chavelita [Dunne] Bright)
THE WOMAN BEATER, by Israel Zangwill

American Short Stories

Collections

Best American Humorous Short Stories

THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN AND HIS WATER LOTS (1839) by George Pope Morris

THE ANGEL OF THE ODD (1844) by Edgar Allan Poe

THE SCHOOLMASTER'S PROGRESS (1844) by Caroline M.S. Kirkland

THE WATKINSON EVENING (1846) by Eliza Leslie

TITBOTTOM'S SPECTACLES (1854) by George Willim Curtis

MY DOUBLE; AND HOW HE UNDID ME (1859) by Edward Everett Hale

A VISIT TO THE ASYLUM FOR AGED AND DECAYED PUNSTERS (1861) by Oliver Wendell Holmes

THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY (1865) by Mark Twain

ELDER BROWN'S BACKSLIDE (1885) by Harry Stillwell Edwards

THE HOTEL EXPERIENCE OF MR. PINK FLUKER (1886) by Richard Malcolm Johnston

THE NICE PEOPLE (1890) by Henry Cuyler Bunner

THE BULLER-PODINGTON COMPACT (1897) by Frank Richard Stockton

COLONEL STARBOTTLE FOR THE PLAINTIFF (1901) by Bret Harte

THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES (1902) by O. Henry

BARGAIN DAY AT TUTT HOUSE (1905) by George Randolph Chester

A CALL (1906) by Grace MacGowan Cooke

HOW THE WIDOW WON THE DEACON (1911) by William James Lampton

GIDEON (1914) by Wells Hastings

Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor edited by Thomas Masson, volume 4. Includes:

A Plea for Humor by Agnes Repplier
An Unmarried Female by Marietta Holley
Selections from a Brace of Boys by Fitzhugh Ludlow
Rheumatism Movement Cure by Robert Jones Burdette
An Aphorism and a Lecture by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Harp of a Thousand Strings by Joshua Morris
My First Visit to Portland by Seba Smith
Country Burial-places by John Carver
The Hoosier and the Salt-pile by Danforth Marble
One of Mr. Ward's Business Letters and On "Forts" by Charles F. Browne ("Artemus Ward")
Street Scenes in Washington by Louisa Mae Alcott
The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Mrs. Johnson by William Dean Howells

Southern Lights and Shadows edited by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden, 1917

Grace MacGowan Cooke

THE CAPTURE OF ANDY PROUDFOOT

Abby Meguire Roach

THE LEVEL OF FORTUNE

Alice MacGowan

PAP OVERHOLT

Mrs. B.F. Mayhew

IN THE PINY WOODS

William L. Sheppard

MY FIFTH IN MAMMY

Sarah Barnwell Elliott

AN INCIDENT

M.E.M. Davis

A SNIPE HUNT

J.J. Eakins

THE COURTSHIP OF COLONEL BILL

Maurice Thompson

THE BALANCE OF POWER

Stories by American Authors, volume 5

A LIGHT MAN. By Henry James.
YATIL. By F.D. Millet.
THE END OF NEW YORK. By Park Benjamin.
WHY THOMAS WAS DISCHARGED. By George Arnold.
THE TACHYPOMP. By E.P. Mitchell.

Stories by American Authors, volume 6

THE VILLAGE CONVICT. By C.H. WHITE.
THE DENVER EXPRESS. By A.A. HAYES.
THE MISFORTUNES OF BRO' THOMAS WHEATLEY. By LINA REDWOOD FAIRFAX.
THE HEARTBREAK CAMEO. By L.W. CHAMPNEY.
MISS EUNICE'S GLOVE. By ALBERT WEBSTER.
BROTHER SEBASTIAN'S FRIENDSHIP. By HAROLD FREDERIC.

Short Story Classics (American) volume 2, edited by William Patten

THE BRIGADE COMMANDER by J. W. DEFOREST
WHO WAS SHE? by BAYARD TAYLOR
MADEMOISELLE OLYMPE ZABRISKI by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
BROTHER SEBASTIAN'S FRIENDSHIP by HAROLD FREDERIC
A GOOD-FOR-NOTHING by HJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN
THE IDYL OF RED GULCH by BRET HARTE
CRUTCH, THE PAGE by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND ("GATH")
IN EACH OTHER'S SHOES by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP
THE DENVER EXPRESS by A. A. HAYES
JAUNE D'ANTIMOINE by THOMAS ALLIBONE JANVIER
OLE 'STRACTED by THOMAS NELSON PAGE
OUR CONSUL AT CARLSRUHE by F. J. STIMSON ("J. S. OF DALE")

The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras by Joaquin Miller and Other Stories [by other authors]

THE LITTLE GOLD MINERS OF THE SIERRAS. by Joaquin Miller
A MODERN HERO. by Marion Harland.
BENNY'S WIGWAM. by Mary Catherine Lee.
BENNY'S DISAPPEARANCE. by Mary Catherine Lee.
HOW TWO SCHOOLBOYS KILLED A BEAR. by H. F. Marsh.
PETE'S PRINTING PRESS. by Kate Gannett Wells.
AUNT ELIZABETH'S FENCE. by George H. Hebard.
THE BUTTON BOY. by A. M. Griffin.
DAN HARDY'S CRIPPY. by James Otis.
HIS THREE TRIALS. by Kate Gannett Wells.
IN THE SECOND DORMITORY. by John Preston True.
THE DOUGHNUT BAIT. by George Varney.
A REAL HAPPENING. by Mary B. Claflin.

Anonymous

No and Other Stories, compiled by Uncle Humphrey, 1851

No
Willy and the Beggar Girl
The Good Son
The Sick Mother
Cornelia's Prayer
Forgiveness
The Guilty Conscience
Acorn Hollow
Industry and Idleness
Envy

Andy Adams

Cattle Brands: a Collection of Western Camp Fire Stories

DRIFTING NORTH
SEIGERMAN'S PER CENT
"BAD MEDICINE"
A WINTER ROUND-UP
A COLLEGE VAGABOND
THE DOUBLE TRAIL
RANGERING
AT COMANCHE FORD
AROUND THE SPADE WAGON
THE RANSOM OF DON RAMON MORA
THE PASSING OF PEG-LEG
IN THE HANDS OF HIS FRIENDS
A QUESTION OF POSSESSION
THE STORY OF A POKER STEER

Louisa Mae Alcott

Marjorie's Three Gifts (short story)
Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories (AKA Proverb Stories)

KITTY'S CLASS DAY
AUNT KIPP
PSYCHE'S ART
A COUNTRY CHRISTMAS
ON PICKET DUTY
THE BARON'S GLOVES
MY RED CAP
WHAT THE BELLS SAW AND SAID

Sherwood Anderson

Winesburg, Ohio, 22 stories

THE BOOK OF THE GROTESQUE
HANDS, concerning Wing Biddlebaum
PAPER PILLS, concerning Doctor Reefy
MOTHER, concerning Elizabeth Willard
THE PHILOSOPHER, concerning Doctor Parcival
NOBODY KNOWS, concerning Louise Trunnion
GODLINESS, a Tale in Four Parts
I, concerning Jesse Bentley
II, also concerning Jesse Bentley
III Surrender, concerning Louise Bentley
IV Terror, concerning David Hardy
A MAN OF IDEAS, concerning Joe Welling
ADVENTURE, concerning Alice Hindman
RESPECTABILITY, concerning Wash Williams
THE THINKER, concerning Seth Richmond
TANDY, concerning Tandy Hard
THE STRENGTH OF GOD, concerning the Reverend Curtis Hartman
THE TEACHER, concerning Kate Swift
LONELINESS, concerning Enoch Robinson
AN AWAKENING, concerning Belle Carpenter
"QUEER," concerning Elmer Cowley
THE UNTOLD LIE, concerning Ray Pearson
DRINK, concerning Tom Foster
DEATH, concerning Doctor Reefy and Elizabeth Willard
SOPHISTICATION, concerning Helen White
DEPARTURE, concerning George Willard

T.S. Arthur

After a Shadow and Other Stories

AFTER A SHADOW.
IN THE WAY OF TEMPTATION.
ANDY LOVELL.
A MYSTERY EXPLAINED.
WHAT CAN I DO?
ON GUARD.
A VISIT WITH THE DOCTOR.
HADN'T TIME FOR TROUBLE.
A GOOD NAME.
LITTLE LIZZIE.
ALICE AND THE PIGEON.
DRESSED FOR A PARTY.
COFFEE VS. BRANDY.
AMY'S QUESTION.
AN ANGEL IN DISGUISE.
WHICH WAS MOST THE LADY?
OTHER PEOPLE'S EYES.

Home Scenes and Home Influence

TAKING COMFORT.
CHILDREN--A FAMILY SCENE.
LOSING ONE'S TEMPER.
TROUBLE WITH SERVANTS.
HAVEN'T THE CHANGE.
OLD MAIDS' CHILDREN.
THE MOTHER AND BOY.
THE CHRISTMAS PARTY.
IS SHE A LADY?
GOING INTO MOURNING.
IF THAT WERE MY CHILD.
I WILL!
A MOTHER'S INFLUENCE.
THE POWER OF PATIENCE.
AN OLD MAN'S RECOLLECTIONS.

Off-Hand Sketches

THE CIRCUIT-PREACHER
THE PROTEST
RETRENCHMENT; OR, WHAT A MAN SAVED BY STOPPING HIS NEWSPAPER
HUNTING UP A TESTIMONIAL
TRYING TO BE A GENTLEMAN
TAKING A PRESCRIPTION
THE YANKEE AND THE DUTCHMAN; OR, I'LL GIVE OR TAKE
A TIPSY PARSON
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING; OR, THE REASON WHY MRS. TODD DIDN'T SPEAK TO MRS. JONES
ALMOST A TRAGEDY
THAT JOHN MASON
A NEW WAY TO COLLECT AN OLD DEBT
A SHOCKING BAD MEMORY
DRIVING A HARD BARGAIN
OUT OF THE FRYING-PAN INTO THE FIRE; OR, THE LOVE OF A HOUSE
MARRYING A COUNT
JOB'S COMFORTERS; OR, THE LADY WITH NERVES
THE CODE OF HONOUR
TREATING A CASE ACTIVELY

Who Are Happiest? and Other Stories

WHO ARE HAPPIEST?
DICK LAWSON, AND THE YOUNG MOCKING-BIRD.
THE MEANS OF ENJOYMENT.
MAN'S JUDGMENT.
WHAT FIVE DOLLARS PAID.
LOOK AT T'OTHER SIDE
THIN SHOES.
THE UNRULY MEMBER.
THE RICH AND THE POOR.

Ambrose Bierce

Collected Works

Volume 1
ASHES OF THE BEACON
THE LAND BEYOND THE BLOW

THITHER
SONS OF THE FAIR STAR
AN INTERVIEW WITH GNARMAG-ZOTE
THE TAMTONIANS
MAROONED ON UG
THE DOG IN GANGEWAG
A CONFLAGRATION IN GHARGAROO
AN EXECUTION IN BATRUGIA
THE JUMJUM OF GOKEETLE-GUK
THE KINGDOM OF TORTIRRA
HITHER

FOR THE AHKOOND
JOHN SMITH, LIBERATOR
BITS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY

ON A MOUNTAIN
WHAT I SAW OF SHILOH
A LITTLE OF CHICKAMAUCA
THE CRIME AT PICKETT'S MILL
FOUR DAYS IN DIXIE
WHAT OCCURRED AT FRANKLIN
'WAY DOWN IN ALABAM'
WORKING FOR AN EMPRESS
ACROSS THE PLAINS
THE MIRAGE
A SOLE SURVIVOR

Volume 2

A HORSEMAN IN THE SKY
AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE
CHICKAMAUGA
A SON OF THE GODS
ONE OF THE MISSING
KILLED AT RESACA
THE AFFAIR AT COULTER'S NOTCH
THE COUP DE GRACE
PARKER ADDERSON, PHILOSOPHER
AN AFFAIR OF OUTPOSTS
THE STORY OF A CONSCIENCE
ONE KIND OF OFFICER
ONE OFFICER, ONE MAN
GEORGE THURSTON
THE MOCKING-BIRD
CIVILIANS

THE MAN OUT OF THE NOSE
AN ADVENTURE AT BROWNVILLE
THE FAMOUS GILSON BEQUEST
THE APPLICANT
A WATCHER BY THE DEAD
THE MAN AND THE SNAKE
A HOLY TERROR
THE SUITABLE SURROUNDINGS
THE BOARDED WINDOW
A LADY FROM RED HORSE
THE EYES OF THE PANTHER

Can Such Things Be?

The death of Halpin Frayser
The secret of Macarger's Gulch
One summer night
The moonlit road
A diagnosis of death
Moxon's master
A tough tussle
One of twins
The haunted valley
A jug of sirup
Staley Fleming's hallucination
A resumed identity
A baby tramp
The night-doings at "Deadman's": A story that is untrue
Beyond the wall
A psychological shipwreck
The middle toe of the right foot
John Mortonson's funeral
The realm of the unreal
John Bartine's watch: A story by a physician
The damned thing
Haita the shepherd
An inhabitant of Carcosa
The Stranger

Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
The Parenticide Club
Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories

The Ways of Ghosts
Present at a Hanging
A Cold Greeting
A Wireless Message
An Arrest
Soldier-Folk

A Man with Two Lives
Three and One are One
A Baffled Ambuscade
Two Military Executions

Some Haunted Houses

The Isle of Pines
A Fruitless Assignment
A Vine on a House
At Old Man Eckert's
The Spook House
The Other Lodgers
The Thing at Nolan

Mysterious Disappearances

The Difficulty of Crossing a Field
An Unfinished Race
Charles Ashmore's Trail
Science to the Front

A Son of the Gods and a Horseman in the Sky

B.M. Bower (= Bertha M. Sinclair = husband of Bertrand Sinclair)

The Lonesome Trail

THE LONESOME TRAIL
FIRST AID TO CUPID
WHEN THE COOK FELL ILL
THE LAMB
THE SPIRIT OF THE RANGE
THE REVELER
THE UNHEAVENLY TWINS

Alice Brown

Tiverton Tales

DOORYARDS
A MARCH WIND
THE MORTUARY CHEST
HORN-O'-THE-MOON
A STOLEN FESTIVAL
A LAST ASSEMBLING
THE WAY OF PEACE
THE EXPERIENCE OF HANNAH PRIME
HONEY AND MYRRH
A SECOND MARRIAGE
THE FLAT-IRON LOT
THE END OF ALL LIVING

Nicholas Carter

The Crime of the French Cafe and Other Stories

The Crime of the French Cafe
Nick Carter's Ghost Story
The Mystery of St. Agnes' Hospital

Kate Chopin

The Awakening and Selected Short Stories

The Awakening
Beyond the Bayou
Desiree's Baby
The Kiss
The Locket
Ma'ame Pelagie
A Pair of Stockings
A Reflection
A Respectable Woman

James Fenimore Cooper

The Lake Gun
New York

Charles Egbert Craddock

The Young Mountaineers

THE MYSTERY OF OLD DADDY'S WINDOW
'WAY DOWN IN POOR VALLEY
A MOUNTAIN STORM
BORROWING A HAMMER
THE CONSCRIPTS' HOLLOW
A WARNING
AMONG THE CLIFFS
IN THE "CHINKING"
ON A HIGHER LEVEL
CHRISTMAS DAY ON OLD WINDY MOUNTAIN

Stephen Crane

A Little Regiment
Men, Women, and Boats

F. Marion Crawford

The Upper Birth

James Oliver Curwood

Back to God's Country and Other Stories
Back to God's Country

The Yellow-Back
The Fiddling Man
L'ange
The Case of Beauvais
The Other Man's Wife
The Strength of Men
The Match
The Honor of Her People
Bucky Severn
His First Penitent
Peter God
The Mouse

Richard Harding Davis

Billy and the Big Stick
A Charmed Life
The Consul
Episodes in Van Bibber's Life
The Frame Up
The Log of the Jolly Polly
The Lost Road and Other Stories

Introduction
The Lost Road
The Miracle of Las Palmas
Evil to Him Who Evil Thinks
The Men of Zanzibar
The Long Arm
The God of Coincidence
The Buried Treasure of Cobre
The Boy Scout
Somewhere in France
The Deserter

The Make-Believe Man
The Man Who Could Not Lose
The Messengers
Miss Civilization
My Buried Treasure
The Nature Faker
Peace Maneuvers
A Question of Latitude
Somewhere in France

"SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE"
PLAYING DEAD
THE CARD-SHARP
BILLY AND THE BIG STICK
THE BOY SCOUT
THE FRAME-UP

The Spy
A Wasted Day

Francis A. Durivage

The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales

THE GOLDSMITH'S DAUGHTER.
PHILETUS POTTS.
THE GONDOLIER.
THE SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS.
THE THREE BRIDES.
CALIFORNIA SPECULATION.
THE FRENCH GUARDSMAN.
PERSONAL SATISFACTION.
THE CASTLE ON THE RHINE.
LOVE IN A COTTAGE.
THE CAREER OF AN ARTIST.
SOUVENIRS OF A RETIRED OYSTERMAN IN ILL HEALTH.
THE NEW YEAR'S STOCKINGS.
THE OBLIGING YOUNG MAN.
EULALIE LASALLE.
THE OLD CITY PUMP.
THE TWO PORTRAITS.
UNCLE OBED.
THE CASKET OF JEWELS.
ACTING CHARADES.
THE GREEN CHAMBER.
HE WASN'T A HORSE JOCKEY.
FUNERAL SHADOWS.
THE LATE ELIAS MUGGS.
THE SOLDIER'S WIFE.
A KISS ON DEMAND.
THE RIFLE SHOT.
THE WATER CURE.
THE COSSACK.
MARRIED FOR MONEY.
THE EMIGRANT SHIP.
THE LAST OF THE STAGE COACHES.
THE SEXTON OF ST. HUBERT'S.
JACK WITHERS.
THE SILVER HAMMER.
THE CHRIST CHURCH CHIMES.
THE POLISH SLAVE.
OBEYING ORDERS.
THE DEACON'S HORSE.
THE CONTRABANDISTA.
THE STAGE-STRUCK GENTLEMAN.
THE DIAMOND STAR.
THE GAME OF CHANCE.
THE SOLDIER'S SON.
TAKING CHARGE OF A LADY.
THE NEW YEAR'S BELLS.
THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tales of the Jazz Age

Introduction
My Last Flappers

The Jelly-Bean
The Camel's Back
May Day
Porcelain and Pink

Fantasies

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Tarquin of Cheapside
"O Russet Witch!"

Unclassified Masterpieces

The Lees of Happiness
Mr. Icky
Jemina

John Fox, Jr.

Christmas Eve on Lonesome and other Stories, 1911

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper

Anna Katharine Green

The Old Stone House and Other Stories

Zane Grey

The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories

The Redheaded Outfield
The Rube
The Rube's Pennant
The Rube's Honeymoon
The Rube's Waterloo
Breaking into Fast Company
The Knocker
The Winning Ball
False Colors
The Manager of Madden's Hill
Old Well-Well

Joel Chandler Harris

Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings

LEGENDS OF THE OLD PLANTATION

I. Uncle Remus initiates tbe Little Boy
II. The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story
III.Why Mr. Possum loves Peace
IV. How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox
V. The Story of the Deluge, and how it came about
VI. Mr. Rabbit grossly deceives Mr. Fox
VII. Mr. Fox is again victimized .
VIII. Mr. Fox is "outdone" by Mr. Buzzard
IX. Miss Cow falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit
X. Mr. Terrapin appears upon the Scene
XI. Mr. Wolf makes a Failure
XII. Mr. Fox tackles Old Man Tarrypin
XIII. The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf
XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs . .
XV. Mr. Fox goes a-hunting, but Mr. Rabbit bags the Game
XVl. Old Mr. Rabbit, he's a Good Fisherman
XVJI. Mr. Rabbit nibbles up the Butter
XVIII. Mr. Rabbit finds his Match at last
XIX. The Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow
XX. How Mr. Rabbit saved his Meat
XXI. Mr. Rabbit meets his Match again
XXII. A Story about the Little Rabbits
XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear .
XXIV. Mr. Bear catches Old Mr. Bull-Frog
XXV. How Mr. Rabbit lost his Fine Bushy Tail
XXVI. Mr. Terrapin shows his Strength.
XXVII Why Mr. Possum has no Hair on his Tail
XXVIII. The End of Mr. Bear .
XXIX. Mr. Fox gets into Serious Business
XXX. How Mr. Rabbit succeeded in raising a Dust.
XXXI. A Plantation Witch
XXXII. "Jacky-my- Lanteern"
XXXIII. Why the Negro is Black
XXXIV.-The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox

Bret Harte

The Bell-Ringer of Angel's

The Bell-Ringer of Angel's
Johnnyboy
Young Robin Gray
The Sheriff of Sisk You
A Rose of Glenbogie
The Mystery of the Hacienda
Chu Chu
My First Book

Colonel Starbottle's Client

Colonel Starbottle's Client
The Postmistress of Laurel Run
A Night at "Hays"
Johnson's "Old Woman"
The New Assistant at Pine Clearing School
In a Pioneer Restaurant
A Treasure of the Galleon
Out of a Pioneer's Trunk

A Drift from Redwood Camp
Drift from Two Shores

The Man on the Beach
Two Saints of the Foot-Hills
"Jinny"
Roger Catron's Friend
"Who Was My Quiet Friend?"
A Ghost of the Sierras
The Hoodlum Band
The Man Whose Yoke Was Not Easy
My Friend, the Tramp
The Man from Solano
The Office Seeker
A Sleeping-Car Experience
Morning on the Avenue
With the Entrees

Flip: a California Romance
Found at Blazing Star
From Sand Hill to Pine

A Niece of Snapshot Harry's
A Treasure of the Redwoods
A Belle of Canada City
What Happened at the Fonda
A Jack and Jill of the Sierras
Mr. Bilson's Housekeeper

Frontier Stories

FLIP: A CALIFORNIA ROMANCE
FOUND AT BLAZING STAR
IN THE CARQUINEZ WOODS
AT THE MISSION OF SAN CARMEL
A BLUE-GRASS PENELOPE
LEFT OUT ON LONE STAR MOUNTAIN
A SHIP OF '49

The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Stories

The Heritage of Dedlow March
A Knight-Errant of the Foot-Hills
A Secret of Telegraph Hill
Captain Jim's Friend

Legends and Tales

The Legend of Monte Del Diablo
The Adventure of Padre Vicentio
The Legend of Devil's Point
The Devil and the Broker
The Ogress of Silver Land
The Ruins of San Francisco
At Night at Wingdam

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales

Publisher's Note
Author's Introduction
The Luck of Roaring Camp
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Miggles
Tennessee's Partner
The Idyl of Bed Gulch
Brown of Calaveras
Condensed Novels:

Muck-A-Muck: A Modern Indian Novel
Selina Sedilia
The Ninety-Nine Guardsmen
Miss Mix
Mr. Midshipman Breezy: A Naval Officer
Guy Heavystone; Or, "Entire:" A Muscular Novel
John Jenkins; Or, The Smoker Reformed
Fantine. After The French Of Victor Hugo
"La Femme." After The French Of M. Michelet
The Dweller Of The Threshold
N. N.: Being A Novel In The French Paragraphic Style
No Title
Handsome Is As Handsome Does
Lothaw; Or, The Adventures Of A Young Gentleman In Search Of A Religion
The Haunted Man: A Christmas Story
Terence Denville
Mary Mcgillup
The Hoodlum Band; Or, The Boy Chief, The Infant Politician, And The Pirate Prodigy

Earlier Sketches

M'liss: An Idyl Of Red Mountain
A Lonely Ride
The Man Of No Account
Notes By Flood And Field
Waiting For The Ship: A Fort Point Idyl
A Night At Wingdam

Spanish and American Legends

The Legend Of Monte Del Diablo
The Right Eye Of The Commander
The Legend Of Devil's Point
The Adventure Of Padre Vicentio: A Legend Of San Francisco
The Devil And The Broker: A Medieval Legend
The Ogress Of Silver Land; Or, The Diverting History

The Christmas Gift That Came To Rupert: A Story For Little Soldiers

Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands

Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands
How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar
The Princess Bob and Her Friends
The Iliad of Sandy Bar
Mr. Thompson's Prodigal
The Romance of Madrono Hollow
The Poet of Sierra Flat
The Christmas Gift that Came to Rupert

New Burlesques

Rupert the Resembler, after Rupert of Hentzau and Prisoner of Zenda
The Stolen Cigar Case by A. Co__n D__le [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
Golly and the Christian, or the Minx and the Manxman by H__ll C__ne
The Adventures of John Longbowe, Yeoman, Being a Modern-Antique Realistic Romance
Dan'l Borem by E. N__s W__t__t
Stories Three by R_dy__d K_pl__g [Rudyard Kipling]
"Zut-ski" the Problem of a Wicked Feme Sole by M__r__e C__r__lli

Openings in the Old Trail

A Mercury of the Foot-Hills
Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff
The Landlord of the Big Flume Hotel
A Buckeye Hollow Inheritance
The Reincarnation of Smith
Lanty Foster's Mistake
An Ali Baba of the Sierras
Miss Peggy's Proteges
The Goddess of Excelsior

The Queen of the Pirate Isle
Sally Dows

Sally Dows
The Conspiracy of Mrs. Bunker
The Transformation of Buckeye Camp
Their Uncle from California

Stories in Light and Shadow

"Unser Karl"
Uncle Jim and Uncle Billy
See Yup
The Desborough Connections
Salomy Jane's Kiss
The Man and the Mountain
The Passing of Enriquez

Tales of Trail and Town

The ancestors of Peter Atherly
Two Americans
The Judgment of Bolinas Plain
The Strange Experience of Alkali Dick
A Night on the Divide
The Youngest Prospector in Calaveras
A Tale of Three Truants

Trent's Trust and Other Stories

Trent's Trust
Mr. MacGlowrie's Widow
A Ward of Colonel Starbottle
Prosper's "Old Mother"
The Convalescence of Jack Hamlin
A Pupil of Chestnut Ridge
Dick Boyle's Business Card

Urban Sketches

A Venerable Impostor
From a Balcony
Melons
Surprising Adventures of Master Charles Summerton
Sidewalkings
A Boy's Dog
Charitable Reminiscences
"Seeing the Steamer Off"
Neighborhoods I Have Moved From
My Suburban Residence
On a Vulgar Little Boy

Julian Hawthorne (see also Lock and Key Library, under Anthologies)

David Poindexter's Disappearance and Other Tales

David Poindexter's Disappearance
Ken's Mystery
"When Half-Gods Go, the Gods Arrive"
"Set Not Thy Foot on Graves"
My Friend Paton

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Dolliver Romance and Other Pieces

A Book of Autographs
Browne's Folly
Dr. Bullivant
Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man
An Old Woman's Tale
Other Tales and Sketches

My Visit To Niagara
The Antique Ring
Graves And Goblins

Sketches from Memory

The Inland Port.
Rochester .
A Night Scene

Time's Portraiture

From Mosses from an Old Manse

The Birthmark
Young Goodman Brown
Rappaccini's Daughter
Mrs. Bullfrog
The Celestial Railroad
The Procession of Life
Feathertop: A Moralized Legend
Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent
Drowne's Wooden Image
Roger Malvin's Burial
The Artist of the Beautiful

The Great Stone Face

Introduction
The Great Stone Face
The Ambitious Guest
The Great Carbuncle
Sketches from Memory

The Snow Image

The Snow Image: A Childish Miracle
The Great Stone Face
Ethan Brand
The Canterbury Pilgrims
The Devil in Manuscript
My Kinsman, Major Molineux

Twice-Told Tales

The Gray Champion
The Wedding Knell
The Minister's Black Veil
The May-Pole of Merry Mount
The Gentle Boy
Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe
Wakefield
The Great Carbuncle
David Swan
The Hollow of the Three Hills
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
Legends of the Province House
The Ambitious Guest
Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure
The Shaker Bridal
Endicott and the Red Cross

Twice-Told Tales, edition of 1889

THE GRAY CHAMPION
SUNDAY AT HOME
THE WEDDING-KNELL
THE MINISTER'S BLACK VEIL
THE MAYPOLE OF MERRY MOUNT
THE GENTLE BOY
MR. HIGGINBOTHAM'S CATASTROPHE
LITTLE ANNIE'S RAMBLE
WAKEFIELD
A RILL FROM THE TOWN PUMP
THE GREAT CARBUNCLE
THE PROPHETIC PICTURES
DAVID SWAN
SIGHTS FROM A STEEPLE
THE HOLLOW OF THE THREE HILLS
THE TOLL-GATHERER'S DAY
THE VISION OF THE FOUNTAIN
FANCY'S SHOW-BOX
DR. HEIDEGGER'S EXPERIMENT
LEGENDS OF THE PROVINCE HOUSE:

I.--HOWE'S MASQUERADE
II.--EDWARD RANDOLPH'S PORTRAIT
III.--LADY ELEANORE'S MANTLE
IV.--OLD ESTHER DUDLEY

THE HAUNTED MIND
THE VILLAGE UNCLE
THE AMBITIOUS GUEST
THE SISTER-YEARS
SNOWFLAKES
THE SEVEN VAGABONDS
THE WHITE OLD MAID
PETER GOLDTHWAITE'S TREASURE
CHIPPINGS WITH A CHISEL
THE SHAKER BRIDAL
NIGHT-SKETCHES
ENDICOTT AND THE RED CROSS
THE LILY'S QUEST
FOOTPRINTS ON THE SEASHORE
EDWARD FANE'S ROSEBUD
THE THREEFOLD DESTINY

A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys

The Gorgon's Head
The Miraculous Pitcher
The Paradise of Children
The Three Golden Apples

O. Henry

Cabbages and Kings

The Proem
"Fox-in-the-Morning"
The Lotus and the Bottle
Smith
Caught
Cupid's Exile Number Two
The Phonograph and the Graft
Money Maze
The Admiral
The Flag Paramount
The Shamrock and the Palm
The Remnants of the Code
Shoes
Ships
Masters of Arts
Dickey
Rouge et Noir
Two Recalls
The Vitagraphoscope

The Four Million

Tobin's Palm
The Gift of the Magi
A Cosmopolite in a Cafe
Between Rounds
The Skylight Room
A Service of Love
The Coming-Out of Maggie
Man about Town
The Cop and the Anthem
An Adjustment of Nature
Memoirs of a Yellow Dog
The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein
Mammon and the Archer
Springtime a la Carte
The Green Door
From the Cabby's Seat
An Unfinished Story
The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock
Sisters of the Golden Circle
The Romance of a Busy Broker
After Twenty Years
Lost on Dress Parade
By Courier
The Furnished Room
The Brief Debut of Tildy

The Gentle Grafter

The Octopus Marooned
Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet
Modern Rural Sports
The Chair of Philanthromathematics
The Hand That Riles the World
The Exact Science of Matrimony
A Midsummer Masquerade
Shearing the Wolf
Innocents of Broadway
Conscience in Art
The Man Higher Up
A Tempered Wind
Hostages to Momus
The Ethics of Pig

Heart of the West

Hearts and Crosses
The Ransom of Mack
Telemachus, Friend
The Handbook of Hymen
The Pimienta Pancakes
Seats of the Haughty
Hygeia at the Solito
An Afternoon Miracle
The Higher Abdication
Cupid a la Carte
The Caballero's Way
The Sphinx Apple
The Missing Chord
A Call Loan
The Princess and the Puma
The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnson
Christmas by Injunction
A Chaparral Prince
The Reformation of Calliope

Options

"The Rose of Dixie"
The Third Ingredient
The Hiding of Black Bill
Schools and Schools
Thimble, Thimble
Buried Treasure
To Him Who Waits
He Also Serves
The Moment of Victory
The Head-Hunter
No Story
The Higher Pragmatism
Best-Seller
Rus in Urbe
A Poor Rule

Roads of Destiny

Roads of Destiny
The Guardian of the Accolade
The Discounters of Money
The Enchanted Profile
"Next to Reading Matter"
Art and the Bronco
Phoebe
A Double-dyed Deceiver
The Passing of Black Eagle
A Retrieved Reformation
Cherchez la Femme
Friends in San Rosario
The Fourth in Salvador
The Emancipation of Billy
The Enchanted Kiss
A Departmental Case
The Renaissance at Charleroi
On Behalf of the Management
Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking
The Halberdier of the Little Rheinschloss
Two Renegades
The Lonesome Road

Sixes and Sevens

The Last of the Troubadours
The Sleuths
Witches' Loaves
The Pride of the Cities
Holding up a Train
Ulysses and the Dogman
The Champion of the Weather
Makes the Whole World Kin
At Arms with Morpheus
The Ghost of a Chance
Jimmy Hayes and Muriel
The Door of Unrest
The Duplicity of Hargraves
Let me Feel your Pulse
October and June
The Church with an Overshot Wheel
New York by Campfire Light
The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes
The Lady Higher Up
The Greater Coney
Law and Order
Transformation of Martin Burney
The Caliph and the Cad
The Diamond of Kali
The Day We Celebrate

Strictly Business

Strictly Business
The Gold that Glittered
Babes in the Jungle
The Day Resurgent
The Fifth Wheel
The Poet and the Peasant
The Robe of Peace
The Girl and the Graft
The Call of the Tame
The Unknown Quantity
The Thing's the Play
A Ramble in Aphasia
A Municipal Report
Psyche and the Pskyscraper
A Bird of Bagdad
Compliments of the Season
A Night in New Arabia
The Girl and the Habit
Proof of the Pudding
Past One at Rodney's
The Venturers
The Duel
"What You Want"

The Trimmed Lamp

The Trimmed Lamp
A Madison Square Arabian Night
The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball
The Pendulum
Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen
The Assessor of Success
The Buyer from Cactus City
The Badge of Policeman O'Room
Brickdust Row
The Making of a New Yorker
Vanity and Some Sables
The Social Triangle
The Purple Dress
The Foreign Policy of Company 99
The Lost Blend
A Harlem Tragedy
"The Guilty Party" -- an East Side Tragedy
According to Their Lights
A Midsummer Knight's Dream
The Last Leaf
The Count and the Wedding Guest
The Country of Elusion
The Ferry of Unfulfilment
The Tale of a Tainted Tenner
Elsie in New York

The Voice of the City

The Voice of the City
The Complete Life of Johns Hopkins
A Lickpenny Lover
Dougherty' Eye-Opener
Little Speck in Garnered Fruit
The Harbinger
While the Auto Waits
Comedy in Rubber
One Thousand Dollars
Defeat of the City
Shocks of Doom
Plutonian Fire
Nemesis and the Candyman
Squaring the Circle
Roses, Ruses, and Romance
Four Roses
City of Dreadful Night
Easter of the Soul
Fool-Killer
Transients in Arcadia
Rathskeller and the Rose
Clarion Call
Extradited from Bohemia
Philistine in Bohemia
From Each According to His Ability
Memento

Waifs and Strays

The Red Roses of Tonia
Round The Circle
The Rubber Plant's Story
Out of Nazareth
Confessions of a Humorist
The Sparrows in Madison Square
Hearts and Hands
The Cactus
The Detective Detector
The Dog and the Playlet
A Little Talk About Mobs
The Snow Man

Whirligigs

The World and the Door
The Theory and the Hound
Hypotheses of Failure
Calloway's Code
A Matter of Mean Elevation
"Girl"
Sociology in Serge and Straw
The Ransom of Red Chief
Two Deperate Men
The Marry Month of May
A Technical Error
Suite Homes and their Romance
The Whirligig of Life
A Sacrifice Hit
The Roads We Take
A Blackjack Bargainer
The Song and the Sergeant
One Dollar's Worth
A Newspaper Story
Tommy's Burglar
A Chaparral Christmas Gift
A Little Local Color
Georgia's Ruling
Blind Man's Holiday
Madame Bo-Peep of the Ranches

Washington Irving

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Little Britain
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon

Preface
The Author's Account of Himself
The Voyage
Roscoe
The Wife
Rip Van Winkle
English Writers on America
Rural Life in England
The Broken Heart
The Art of Book-making
A Royal Poet
The Country Church
The Widow and her Son
A Sunday in London
The Boar's Head Tavern
The Mutability of Literature
Rural Funerals
The Inn Kitchen
The Spectre Bridegroom
Westminster Abbey
Christmas
The Stage-Coach
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day
The Christmas Dinner
London Antiques
Little Britain
Statford-on-Avon
Traits of Indian Character
Philip of Pokanoket

Helen Hunt Jackson

Saxe Holm's Stories, 1873

Draxy Miller's Dowry
The Elder's Wife
Whose Wife Was She?
The One-Legged Dancers
How One Woman Kept Her Husband
Esther Wynn's Love-Letters

Sarah Orne Jewett

Deephaven and Selected Stories and Sketches

DEEPHAVEN
AN AUTUMN HOLIDAY (1881)
FROM A MOURNFUL VILLAGER (1881)
AN OCTOBER RIDE (1881)
TOM'S HUSBAND (1884)
MISS DEBBY'S NEIGHBORS (1884)

Henry James

The Altar of the Dead
The Author of Beltraffio
The Beast in the Jungle
The Beldonald Holbein
A Bundle of Letters
The Chaperone
The Coxon Fund
Daisy Miller
The Death of the Lion
Eugene Pickering
The Figure in the Carpet
Glasses
Greville Fane
The Jolly Corner
The Madonna of the Future
The Marriages
Nona Vincent
Pandora
The Patagonia
The Pension Beaurepas
The Point of View
The Pupil
The Real Thing
Sir Dominick Ferrand
Some Short Stories

Brooksmith
The Real Thing
The Story of It
Flickerbridge
Mrs. Medwin

Florence Finch Kelly

Emerson's Wie and Other Western Stories

EMERSON'S WIFE
COLONEL KATE'S PROTEGEE
THE KID OF APACHE TEJU
A BLAZE ON PARD HUFF
HOW COLONEL KATE WON HER SPURS
HOLLYHOCKS
THE RISE, FALL, AND REDEMPTION OF JOHNSON SIDES
A PIECE OF WRECKAGE
THE STORY OF A CHINEE KID
OUT OF SYMPATHY
AN OLD ROMAN OF MARIPOSA
OUT OF THE MOUTH OF BABES
POSEY
A CASE OF THE INNER IMPERATIVE

Joseph Lincoln

Cape Cod Stories

Two Pairs of Shoes
The Count and the Manager
The South Shore Weather Bureau
The Dog Star
The Mare and the Motor
The Mark on the Door
The Love of Lobelia 'ankins
The Meanness of Rosy
The Antiquers
His Native Heath
Jonesy

Jack London

Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories chosen by Franklin Mathiews

BROWN WOLF
THAT SPOT
TRUST
ALL GOLD CANYON
THE STORY OF KEESH
NAM-BOK THE UNVERACIOUS
YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF
MAKE WESTING
THE HEATHEN
THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY
"JUST MEAT"
A NOSE FOR THE KING

DUTCH COURAGE

DUTCH COURAGE
TYPHOON OFF THE COAST OF JAPAN
THE LOST POACHER
THE BANKS OF THE SACRAMENTO
CHRIS FARRINGTON: ABLE SEAMAN
TO REPEL BOARDERS
AN ADVENTURE IN THE UPPER SEA
BALD-FACE
IN YEDDO BAY
WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE

The Faith of Men

A Relic of the Pliocene
A Hyperborean Brew
The Faith of Men
Too Much Gold
The One Thousand Dozen
The Marriage of Lit-lit
Batard
The Story of Jees Uck

The Game
The House of Pride and Other Tales from Hawaii

The House of Pride
Koolau the Leper
Good-bye, Jack
Aloha Oe
Chun Ah Chun
The Sheriff of Kona
Jack London by Himself

The Human Drift

The Human Drift
Small-Boat Sailing
Four Horses and a Sailor
Nothing that Ever Came to Anything
That Dead Men Rise up Never

Lost Face

Lost Face
Trust
To Build a Fire
That Spot
Flush of Gold
The Passing of Marcus O'Brien
The Wit of Porportuk

Moon-Face and Other Stories

Moon-Face
The Leopard Man's Story
Local Color
Amateur Night
The Minions of Midas
The Shadow and the Flash
All Gold Canyon
Planchette

The Night-Born

The Night-Born
The Madness of John Harned
When the World Was Young
The Benefit of the Doubt
Winged Blackmail
Bunches of Knuckles
War
Under the Deck Awnings
To Kill a Man
The Mexican

On the Makaloa Mat: Island Tales

On the Makaloa Mat
The Bones of Kahekili
When Alice Told her Soul
Shin-Bones
The Water Baby
The Tears of Ah Kim
The Kanaka Surf

The Road

CONFESSION
HOLDING HER DOWN
PICTURES
"PINCHED"
THE PEN
HOBOES THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT
ROAD-KIDS AND GAY-CATS
TWO THOUSAND STIFFS
BULLS

South Sea Tales

The House of Mapuhi
The Whale Tooth
Mauki
"Yah! Yah! Yah!"
The Heathen
The Terrible Solomons
The Inevitable White Man
The Seed of McCoy

Stories of Ships and the Sea

Chris Farrington: Able Seaman
Typhoon Off the Coast of Japan
The Lost Poacher
The Banks of the Sacramento
In Yeddo Bay

The Strength of the Strong

The Strength of the Strong
South of the Slot
The Unparalleled Invasion
The Enemy of All the World
The Dream of Debs
The Sea-Farmer
Samuel

Tales of the Fish Patrol

White and Yellow
King of the Greeks
A Raid on the Oyster Pirates
Siege of the "Lancashire" Queen
Charley's Coup
Demetrios Contos
The Yellow Handkerchief

Tales of the Klondyke

The God of His Fathers
The Great Interrogation
Which Make Men Remember
Siwash
The Man with the Gash
Jan, the Unrepentant
Grit of Women
Where the Trail Forks
A Daughter of the Aurora
At the Rainbow's End
The Scorn of Women

When God Laughs and Other Stories

When God Laughs
The Apostate
A Wicked Woman
Just Meat
Created He Them
The Chinago
Make Westing
Semper Idem
A Nose for the King
The "Francis Spaight"
A Curious Fragment
A Piece of Steak

Herman Melville

Bartleby, the Scrivener
I and My Chimney
Piazza Tales

THE PIAZZA
BARTLEBY
BENITO CERENO
THE LIGHTNING-ROD MAN
THE ENCANTADAS; OR, ENCHANTED ISLANDS
THE BELL-TOWER

John Ames Mitchell (1845-1918)

The Last American

Frank Norris

A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories

A Deal in Wheat
The Wife of Chino
A Bargain with Peg-Leg
The Passing of Cock-Eye Blacklock
A Memorandum of Sudden Death
Two Hearts That Beat as One
The Dual Personality of Slick Dick Nickerson
The Ship That Saw a Ghost
The Ghost in the Crosstrees
The Riding of Felipe

J.H. Pearce

Drolls from Shadowland

Edgar Allan Poe

Volume 1 of the Raven Edition of his works

Edgar Allan Poe, An Appreciation
Life of Poe, by James Russell Lowell
Death of Poe, by N. P. Willis
The Unparalled Adventures of One Hans Pfall
The Gold Bug
Four Beasts in One
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Roget
The Balloon Hoax
MS. Found in a Bottle
The Oval Portrait

Volume 2

The Purloined Letter
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade
A Descent into the Maelström
Von Kempelen and his Discovery
Mesmeric Revelation
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Black Cat
The Fall of the House of Usher
Silence -- a Fable
The Masque of the Red Death
The Cask of Amontillado
The Imp of the Perverse
The Island of the Fay
The Assignation
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Premature Burial
The Domain of Arnheim
Landor's Cottage
William Wilson
The Tell-Tale Heart
Berenice
Eleonora

Volume 3

Narrative of A. Gordon Pym
Ligeia
Morella
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
The Spectacles
King Pest
Three Sundays in a Week

Volume 4

The Devil in the Belfry
Lionizing
X-ing a Paragrab
Metzengerstein
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
How to Write a Blackwood article
A Predicament
Mystification
Diddling
The Angel of the Odd
Mellonta Tauta
The Duc de l'Omelette
The Oblong Box
Loss of Breath
The Man That Was Used Up
The Business Man
The Landscape Garden
Maelzel's Chess-Player
The Power of Words
The Colloquy of Monas and Una
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
Shadow.--A Parable

Volume 5

Philosophy of Furniture
A Tale of Jerusalem
The Sphinx
Hop Frog
The Man of the Crowd
Never Bet the Devil Your Head
Thou Art the Man
Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling
Bon-Bon
Some words with a Mummy

Eleanor Porter

Tangled Threads

A DELAYED HERITAGE
THE FOLLY OF WISDOM
CRUMBS
A FOUR-FOOTED FAITH AND A TWO
A MATTER OF SYSTEM
ANGELUS
THE APPLE OF HER EYE
A MUSHROOM OF COLLINGSVILLE
THAT ANGEL BOY
THE LADY IN BLACK
THE SAVING OF DAD
MILLIONAIRE MIKE'S THANKSGIVING
WHEN MOTHER FELL ILL
THE GLORY AND THE SACRIFICE
THE DALTONS AND THE LEGACY
THE LETTER
THE INDIVISIBLE FIVE
THE ELEPHANT'S BOARD AND KEEP
A PATRON OF ART
WHEN POLLY ANN PLAYED SANTA CLAUS

Eugenia Potts

Idle Hour Stories

A THRILLING EXPERIENCE
A CLUSTER OF RIPE FRUIT
THE GHOST AT CRESTDALE
HER CHRISTMAS GIFT
IN A PULLMAN CAR
IN OLD KENTUCKY
HIS GRATITUDE
THE SINGER'S CHRISTMAS
TURNING THE TABLES
HOW SHE HELPED HIM
THE IRON BOX
THE GIRL FARMERS
PROVING A HEART
HEZEKIAH'S WOOING
A SUMMER DAISY
TREESA
MY FIRST JURY CASE
THREE VISITS
IN EASTER DAWN
IN THE MAMMOTH CAVE

Lemuel Ely Quigg

Tin-Type Taken in the Streets of New York

Charles Roberts

Earth's Enigmas

Do Seek their Meat from God
The Perdu
"The Young Ravens that Call upon Him"
Within Sound of the Saws
The Butt of the Camp
In the Accident Ward
The Romance of an Ox-Team
A Tragedy of the Tides
At the Rough-and-Tumble Landing
An Experience of Jabez Batterpole
The Stone Dog
The Barn on the Marsh
Captain Joe and Jamie
Strayed
The Eye of Gluskap

Ernest Thompson Seton

Johnny Bear and Other Stories, from Lives of the Hunted

JOHNNY BEAR

His Whole Appearance Suggested Dyspepsia
But Johnny Wanted to See
A Syrup-tin Kept Him Happy for a Long Time

TITO: THE STORY OF THE COYOTE THAT LEARNED HOW

Coyotito, the Captive
They Considered Themselves Acquainted
Their Evening Song
Tito and her Brood
Tito's Race for Life

WHY THE CHICKADEE GOES CRAZY ONCE A YEAR

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Queer Little Folks

Hen that Hatched Ducks
The Nutcrackers of Nutcracker Lodge
The History of Tip-Top
Miss Katy-Did and Miss Cricket
Mother Magpie's Mischief
The Squirrels that live in a House
Hum, the Son of Buz
Our Country Neighbours
The Diverting History of Little Whiskey

Oldtown Fireside Stories

THE GHOST IN THE MILL
THE SULLIVAN LOOKING-GLASS.
THE MINISTER'S HOUSEKEEPER.
THE WIDOW'S BANDBOX.
CAPTAIN KIDD'S MONEY.
"MIS' ELDERKIN'S PITCHER."
THE GHOST IN THE CAP'N BROWNHOUSE.

Ruth McInery Stuart

Moriah's Mourning and Other Stories

MORIAH'S MOURNING
AN OPTICAL DILEMMA
THE SECOND MRS. SLIMM
APOLLO BELVEDERE. A CHRISTMAS EPISODE OF THE PLANTATION
NEAREST OF KIN (ON THE PLANTATION)
THE DEACON'S MEDICINE
TWO GENTLEMEN OF LEISURE
THE REV. JORDAN WHITE'S THREE GLANCES
LADY. A MONOLOGUE OF THE COW-PEN
A PULPIT ORATOR
AN EASTER SYMBOL. A MONOLOGUE OF THE PLANTATION
CHRISTMAS AT THE TRIMBLES'
A MINOR CHORD

Mark Twain

1601 or Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories

The $30,000 Bequest
A Dog's Tale
Was It Heaven? Or Hell?
A Cure for the Blues
The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant
The Californian's Tale
A Helpless Situation
A Telephonic Conversation
Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale
The Five Boons of Life
The First Writing-machines
Italian without a Master
Italian with Grammar
A Burlesque Biography
How to Tell a Story
General Washington's Negro Body-servant
Wit Inspirations of the "Two-year-olds"
An Entertaining Article
A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury
Amended Obituaries
A Monument to Adam
A Humane Word from Satan
Introduction to "The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English"
Advice to Little Girls
Post-mortem Poetry
The Danger of Lying in Bed
Portrait of King William III
Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?
Extracts from Adam's Diary
Eve's Diary

Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories

The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton
On the Decay of the Art of Lying
About Magnanimous-Incident Literature
Punch, Brothers, Punch
The Great Revolution in Pitcairn
The Canvasser's Tale
An Encounter with an Interviewer
Paris Notes
Legend of Sagenfeld, in Germany
Speech on the Babies
Speech on the Weather
Concerning the American Language
Rogers

The Carnival of Crime in Connecticut
The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches

The Curious Republic of Gondour
A Memory
Introductory to "Memoranda"
About Smells
A Couple of Sad Experiences
Dan Murphy
The "Tournament" in A.D. 1870
Curious Relic for Sale
A Reminiscence fo the Back Settlements
A Royal Compliment
The Approaching Epidemic
The Tone-Imparting Committee
Our Precious Lunatic
The European Wars
The Wild Man Interviewed
Last Words of Great Men

A Dog's Tale
A Double Barrelled Detective
Extracts from Adam's Diary
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again
A Horse's Tale
How to Tell a Story and Others

How to Tell a Story
The Wounded Soldier
The Golden Arm
Mental Telegraphy Again
The Invalid's Story

The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg

The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
My First Lie, and How I Got Out of IT
The Esquimaux Maiden's Romance
Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy
Is He Living or Is He Dead?
My Debut as a Literary Person
At the Appetite-Cure
Concerning the Jews
From the 'London Times' of 1904
About Play-Acting
Travelling with a Reformer
Diplomatic Pay and Clothes
Luck
The Captain's Story
Stirring Times in Austria
My Military Campaign
Meisterschaft
My Boyhood Dreams
To the Above Old People
In Memoriam -- Olivia Susan Clemens

The Mysterious Stranger

The Mysterious Stranger
A Fable
Hunting the Deceitful Turkey
The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm

Rambling Idle Excursion
The Stolen White Elephant
Those Extraordinary Twins
Tom Sawyer Abroad
Tom Sawyer, Detective

M.T.W.

Connor Magan's Luck

Connor Magan's Luck
Why Mammy Delphy's Baby Was Named Grief
Sammy Sealskin's Enemy
Nannette's Live Baby
Brothers For Sale
A Story of a Clock
Naughty Zay
The Legend of the Salt Sea
The Man with the Straw Hat
Ruffles and Puffs
Sugar River
A Pioneer "Wide Awake"
Surprised
April Fools and Other Fools

Edith Wharton

The Choice
The Descent of Man and Other Stories

The Descent of Man
The Other Two
Expiation
The Lady's Maid's Bell
The Mission of Jane
The Reckoning
The Letter
The Dilettante
The Quicksand
A Venetian Night's Entertainment

Early Short Fiction (first two of ten volumes)

Volume One:

Kerfol (1916)
Mrs. Manstey's View (1891)
The Bolted Door (1909)
The Dilettante (1903)
The House of the Dead Hand (1904)

Volume Two:

Afterward (1910)
The Fulness of Life (1893)
A Venetian Night's Entertainment (1903)
Xingu (1911)
The Verdict (1908)
The Reckoning (1902)

John Greenleaf Whittier

The Boy Captives: An Incident of the Indian War of 1695
Yankee Gypsies

Mary E. Wilkins

Young Lucretia and Other Stories

YOUNG LUCRETIA
HOW FIDELIA WENT TO THE STORE
ANN MARY; HER TWO THANKSGIVINGS
ANN LIZY'S PATCHWORK
THE LITTLE PERSIAN PRINCESS
WHERE THE CHRISTMAS-TREE GREW
WHERE SARAH JANE'S DOLL WENT
SEVENTOES' GHOST
LITTLE MIRANDY, AND HOW SHE EARNED HER SHOES
A PARSNIP STEW
THE DICKEY BOY
A SWEET-GRASS BASKET
MEHITABLE LAMB

Owen Wister

Mother
Padre Ignacio
Philosophy 4: a Story of Harvard University

Arabic

Richard Burton (translator)

Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights, complete), 169 stories told over the course of 1001 nights

Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5
Volume 6
Volume 7
Volume 8
Volume 9
Volume 10
Supplement Volume1
Supplement Volume 2
Supplement Volume 3
Supplement Volume 4
Supplement Volume 5
Supplement Volume 6

Australian

Henry Lawson

Over the Slip Rails, stories including:

The Shanty-Keeper's Wife
A Gentleman Sharper and Steelman Sharper
An Incident at Stiffner's
The Hero of Redclay
The Darling River
A Case for the Oracle
A Daughter of Maoriland
New Year's Night
Black Joe
They Wait on the Wharf in Black
Seeing the Last of You
Two Boys at Grinder Brothers'
The Selector's Daughter
Mitchell on the "Sex" and Other "Problems"
The Master's Mistake
The Story of the Oracle
Glossary

Andrew Barton `Banjo' Paterson

Three Elephant Power and Other Stories

Three Elephant Power
The Oracle
The Cast-iron Canvasser
The Merino Sheep
The Bullock
White-when-he's-wanted
The Downfall of Mulligan's
The Amateur Gardener
Thirsty Island
Dan Fitzgerald Explains
The Cat
Sitting in Judgment
The Dog
The Dog -- as a Sportsman
Concerning a Steeplechase Rider
Victor Second
Concerning a Dog-fight
His Masterpiece
Done for the Double

Belgian

Camille Lemonier

Saint Nicholas Eve

Maurice Maeterlink

The Massacre of the Innocent

British, Welsh, and Scottish

Collections

Best British Short Stories of 1922 edited by Edward O'Brien and John Connors

WHERE WAS WYCH STREET? By Stacy Aumonier
THE LOOKING-GLASS. By J.D. Beresford
THE OLIVE. By Algernon Blackwood
ONCE A HERO. By Harold Brighouse
"THE PENSIONER." By William Caine
BROADSHEET BALLAD. By A.E. Coppard
THE CHRISTMAS PRESENT. By Richmal Crompton
SEATON'S AUNT. By Walter de la Mare
THE REAPER. By Dorothy Easton
THE SONG. By May Edginton
A HEDONIST. By John Galsworthy
THE BAT AND BELFRY INN. By Alan Graham
THE LIE. By Holloway Horn
A GIRL IN IT. By Rowland Kenney
THE BACKSTAIRS OF THE MIND. By Rosamond Langbridge
THE BIRTH OF A MASTERPIECE. By Lucas Malet
"GENIUS." By Elinor Mordaunt
THE DEVIL TO PAY. By Max Pemberton
EMPTY ARMS. By Roland Pertwee
LENA WRACE. By May Sinclair
THE DICE THROWER. By Sidney Southgate
THE STRANGER WOMAN. By G.B. Stern
THE WOMAN WHO SAT STILL. By Parry Truscott
MAJOR WILBRAHAM. By Hugh Walpole

The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1, 1910

APPARITION OF MRS. VEAL. By Daniel Defoe (1661-1731)
THE MYSTERIOUS BRIDE. By James Hogg (1770-1835)
THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER. By Washington Irving (1783-1859)
DR. HEIDEGGER'S EXPERIMENT. By Nathaniel Hawthorne (1807-1864)
THE PURLOINED LETTER. By Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
RAB AND HIS FRIENDS. By Dr. John Brown (1810-1882)
THE BOOTS AT THE HOLLY-TREE INN. By Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
A STORY OF SEVEN DEVILS. By Frank R. Stockton. (1834-1902)
A DOG'S TALE. By Mark Twain (1835)
THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT. By Bret Harte (1839-1902)
THE THREE STRANGERS. By Thomas Hardy (1840)
JULIA BRIDE. By Henry James (1843)
A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT. By Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Scottish Ghost Stories by Elliott O'Donnell

THE DEATH BOGLE OF THE CROSS ROADS, AND THE

THE TOP ATTIC IN PRINGLE'S MANSION, EDINBURGH

THE BOUNDING FIGURE OF "---- HOUSE," NEAR BUCKINGHAM TERRACE, EDINBURGH
JANE OF GEORGE STREET, EDINBURGH
THE SALLOW-FACED WOMAN OF NO. -- FORREST ROAD, EDINBURGH
THE PHANTOM REGIMENT OF KILLIECRANKIE
"PEARLIN' JEAN" OF ALLANBANK
THE DRUMMER OF CORTACHY
THE ROOM BEYOND. AN ACCOUNT OF THE HAUNTINGS OF HENNERSLEY, NEAR AYR

THE CHOKING GHOST OF "---- HOUSE," NEAR SANDYFORD PLACE, GLASGOW
THE GREY PIPER AND THE HEAVY COACH OF DONALDGOWERIE HOUSE, PERTH
THE FLOATING HEAD OF THE BENRACHETT INN, NEAR THE PERTH ROAD, DUNDEE
THE HAUNTINGS OF "---- HOUSE," IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF THE GREAT WESTERN ROAD, ABERDEEN
THE WHITE LADY OF ROWNAM AVENUE, NEAR STIRLING
THE GHOST OF THE HINDOO CHILD, OR THE HAUNTINGS OF THE WHITE DOVE HOTEL, NEAR ST. SWITHIN'S STREET,

GLAMIS CASTLE

Stories by English Authors: the Sea

The Extraodinary Adventure of a Chief Mate by W. Clark Russell
Quarantine Island by Sir Walter Besant
The Rock Scorpions by Anonymous
The Master of the "Chrysolite by G.B. O'Halloran
"Petrel" and "The Black Swan" by Anonymous
Melissa's Tour by Grant Allen
Vanderdecken's Message Home by Anonymous

Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, volume 23

THE LAWYER'S TALES (_Alexander Leighton_)--LORD KAMES'S PUZZLE.

Anonymous

The Old Castle and Other Stories

THE OLD CASTLE,
GEORGE AND ALICK,
THE SIXPENNY CALICO,
A WESTMORELAND STORY,

Robert Barr (Luke Sharp)

In a Steamer Chair and Other Ship-Board Stories

IN A STEAMER CHAIR
MRS TREMAIN
SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE
AN INTERNATIONAL BOW
A LADIES' MAN
A SOCIETY FOR THE REFORMATION OF POKER PLAYERS
THE MAN WHO WAS NOT ON THE PASSENGER LIST
THE TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE OF PLODKINS
A CASE OF FEVER
HOW THE CAPTAIN GOT HIS STEAMER OUT
MY STOWAWAY
THE PURSER'S STORY
MISS MCMILLAN

Arthur Christopher Benson

Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories

PAUL THE MINSTREL
THE ISLES OF SUNSET
THE WAVING OF THE SWORD
RENATUS
THE SLYPE HOUSE
OUT OF THE SEA
THE TROTH OF THE SWORD
THE HILL OF TROUBLE
THE GRAY CAT
THE RED CAMP
THE LIGHT OF THE BODY
THE SNAKE, THE LEPER, AND THE GREY FROST
BROTHER ROBERT
THE CLOSED WINDOW
THE BROTHERS
THE TEMPLE OF DEATH
THE TOMB OF HEIRI
CERDA
LINUS

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

The Haunted and the Haunters
The Incantation
The Lady of Lyons

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories

Little Saint Elizabeth
The Story of Prince Fairyfoot
The Proud Little Grain of Wheat
Behind the White Brick

Geoffrey Chaucer

Canterbury Tales

The General Prologue
The Knight's Tale
The Miller's Tale
The Reeve's Tale
The Cook's Tale
The Man of Law's Tale
The Wife of Bath's Tale
The Friar's Tale
The Sompnour's Tale
The Clerk's Tale
The Merchant's Tale
The Squire's Tale
The Franklin's Tale
The Doctor's Tale
The Pardoner's Tale
The Shipman's Tale
The Prioress's Tale
Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas
Chaucer's Tale of Meliboeus
The Monk's Tale
The Nun's Priest's Tale
The Second Nun's Tale
The Canon's Yeoman's Tale
The Manciple's Tale
The Parson's Tale

Wilkie Collins

Fair Penitent
Miss Bertha and the Yankee
Miss Mina and the Groom
Mr. Lepel and the Housekeeper

Mrs. Colman

The Pearl Story Book

THE TURTLE-DOVES OF CARMEL
THE DYING CHILD
FRIGHTENED BY A COW
THE RED SHOES.
NAUGHTY MARIAN
MORNING HOUR
THE CHIMNEY-SWEEP
PLEASANT AMUSEMENTS
THE CAGED BIRD
THE YOUNG GLEANER
PERSEVERANCE

Joseph Conrad

Amy Foster
Secret Sharer
Tomorrow
Youth

Mrs. Crosland

The Young Lord and Other Tales

Daniel Defoe

Dickory Cronke

Charles Dickens

Dr. Marigold
George Silverman's Explanation
Going into Society
Holiday Romance
The Holly-Tree
Hunted Down
The Lamplighter
Message from the Sea
Mrs. Liripper's Legacy
Mrs. Liripper's Lodgings
Seven Poor Travellers
Sunday Under Three Heads
Three Ghost Stories

The Signal-Man
The Haunted-House
The Trial For Murder

To Be Read at Dusk
Tom Tiddler's Ground
The Wreck of the Golden Mary

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
Adventure of the Cardboard Box
Adventure of the Devil's Foot
Adventure of the Dying Detective
The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
The Adventure of the Red Circle
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

A Scandal in Bohemia
The Red-headed League
A Case of Identity
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
The Five Orange Pips
The Man with the Twisted Lip
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

Danger! and other Stories, 1918
His Last Bow
Mystery of Sassa Valley
The Parasite
The Stark Munro Letters

Maria Edgeworth

Tales and Novels

Volume 1, Moral Tales

FORESTER
THE PRUSSIAN VASE
THE GOOD AUNT
ANGELINA; OR, L'AMIE INCONNUE
THE GOOD FRENCH GOVERNESS
MADEMOISELLE PANACHE
THE KNAPSACK

Volume 2, Popular Tales

LAME JERVAS
THE WILL
THE LIMERICK GLOVES
OUT OF DEBT OUT OF DANGER
THE LOTTERY
ROSANNA
MURAD THE UNLUCKY
THE MANUFACTURERS
THE CONTRAST
THE GRATEFUL NEGRO
TO-MORROW

Caradoc Evans

My Neighbors: Stories of the Welsh People

LOVE AND HATE 11
ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN 31
THE TWO APOSTLES 59
EARTHBRED 81
FOR BETTER 99
TREASURE AND TROUBLE 117
SAINT DAVID AND THE PROPHETS 131
JOSEPH'S HOUSE 155
LIKE BROTHERS 173
A WIDOW WOMAN 187
UNANSWERED PRAYERS 199
LOST TREASURE 215
PROFIT AND GLORY 231

G.M Fenn

Brave and True, Short Stories for Children, 9 stories

John Galsworthy

Five Tales

THE FIRST AND LAST
A STOIC
THE APPLE TREE
THE JURYMAN
INDIAN SUMMER OF A FORSYTE

Works of John Galsworthy, volume 4, Villa Rubein and Other Stories

Villa Rubein
A Man of Devon
A Knight
Salvation of a Forsyte
The Silence

H. Rider Haggard

Long Odds

Thomas Hardy

Life's Little Ironies

The Son's Veto
For Conscience' Sake
A Tragedy of Two Ambitions
On the Western Circuit
To Please his Wife
The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion
A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four
A Few Crusted Characters

Maurice Hewlett (1861-1923)

Little Novels of Italy

MADONNA OF THE PEACH-TREE
IPPOLITA IN THE HILLS
THE DUCHESS OF NONA
MESSER CINO AND THE LIVE COAL
THE JUDGMENT OF BORSO

John C. Hutcheson

Tom Finch's Monkey, and How He Dined with the Admiral and other Yarns, 5 stories

Montague Rhodes James

A Thin Ghost and Others

THE RESIDENCE AT WHITMINSTER
THE DIARY OF MR. POYNTER
AN EPISODE OF CATHEDRAL HISTORY
THE STORY OF A DISAPPEARANCE AND AN APPEARANCE
TWO DOCTORS

Jerome K. Jerome

Clocks
The Cost of Kindliness
Dreams
Evergreens
The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl
The Soul of Nicholas Snyder

Christopher Jervis

John Thorndyke's Cases

THE MAN WITH THE NAILED SHOES
THE STRANGER'S LATCHKEY
THE ANTHROPOLOGIST AT LARGE
THE BLUE SEQUIN
THE MOABITE CIPHER
THE MANDARIN'S PEARL
THE ALUMINIUM DAGGER
A MESSAGE FROM THE DEEP SEA

William H.G. Kingston

The Ferryman of Brill and Other Stories, 8 stories

Rudyard Kipling

Indian Tales

The Jungle Book

Just So Stories

Life's Handicap, being Stories of Mine Own People

The Man Who Would Be King

Plain Tales from the Hills

The Second Jungle Book

Soldiers Three

part 1

part 2

Andrew Lang

The Man in the Iron Mask
Saint-Germain the Deathless
In the Wrong Paradise and Other Stories

The End of Phaeacia
In the Wrong Paradise
A Cheap Nigger
The Romance of the First Radical
A Duchess's Secret
The House of Strange Stories
In Castle Perilous
The Great Gladstone Myth
My Friend the Beach-Comber

D.H. Lawrence

The Prussian Officer
Wintry Peacock

George MacDonald

The Portent and Other Stories

THE PORTENT
THE CRUEL PAINTER
THE CASTLE
THE WOW O' RIVVEN
THE BROKEN SWORDS
THE GRAY WOLF
UNCLE CORNELIUS HIS STORY

Talbot Baines Reed

Boycotted and Other Stories, 15 stories
Parkhurst Boys, 37 stories

Saki (H.H. Munro)

Beasts and Superbeasts

The She-Wolf
Laura
The Boar-Pig
The Brogue
The Hen
The Open Window
The Treasure-Ship
The Cobweb
The Lull
The Unkindest Blow
The Romancers
The Schartz-Meterklume Method
The Seventh Pullet
The Blind Spot
Dusk
A Touch of Realism
Cousin Teresa
The Yarkand Manner
The Byzantine Omelette
The Feast of Nemesis
The Dreamer
The Quince Tree
The Forbidden Buzzards
The Stake
Clovis on Parental Responsibiliteis
A Holiday Task
The Stalled Ox
The Story-Teller
A Defensive Diamond
The Elk
"Down Pens"
The Name-Day
The Lumber Room
Fur
The Phlandthropist and the Happy Cat
On Approval

Chronicles of Clovis

Introduction
Esme
The Match-Maker
Tobermory
Mrs. Packletide's Tiger
The Stampeding of Lady Bastable
The Background
Hermann the Irascilbe -- a Story of the Great Weep
The Unrest-Cure
The Jesting of Arlington Stringham
Sredni Vashtar
Adrian
The Chaplet
The Quest
Wratislav
The Easter Egg
Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse that Helped
The Music on the Hill
The Story of St. Vespaluus
The Way to the Dairy
The Peace Offering
The Peace of Mowsle Barton
The Talking-Out of Tarrington
The Hounds of Fate
The Recessional
A Matter of Sentiment
The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope
"Ministers of Grace"
The Remoulding of Groby Lington
Acknowledgment

Reginald

Reginald
Reginald on Christmas Presents
Reginald on the Academy
Reginald at the Theatre
Reginald's Peace Poem
Reginald's Choir Treat
Reginald on Worries
Reginald on House-Parties
Reginald at the Carlton
Reginald on Besetting Sins
Reginald's Drama
Reginald on Tariffs
Reginald's Christmas Revel
Reginald's Rubaiyat
The Innocence of Reginald

Reginald in Russia

Reginald in Russia
The Reticence of Lady Anne
The Lost Sanjak
The Sex that Doesn't Shop
The Blood-Feud of Toad-Water
A Young Turkish Catastrophe
Judkin of the Parcels
Gabriel-Ernest
The Saint and The Goblim
The Soul of Laploshka
The Bag
The Strategist
Cross Currents
The Baker's Dozen
The Mouse

The Toys of Peace

The Toys of Peace
Louise
Tea
The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh
The Wolves of Cernogratz
Louis
The Guests
The Penance
The Phantom Luncheon
A Bread and Butter Miss
Bertie's Christmas Eve
Forewarned
The Interlopers
Quail Seed
Canossa
The Threat
Excepting Mrs. Pentherby
Mark
The Hedgehog
The Mappined Life
Fate
The Bull
Morlvera
Shock Tactics
The Seven Cream Jugs
The Occasional Garden
The Sheep
The Oversight
Hyacinth
The Image of the Lost Soul
The Purple of the Balkan Kings
The Cupboard of the Yesterdays
For the Duration of the War

Sir Walter Scott

Death of the Laird's Jock
My Aunt Margaret's Mirror
The Tapestried Chamber
Wandering Willie's Tale

Robert Louis Stevenson

Father Damien
Lodging for the Night
Markheim
St. Ives
Thrawn Janet
Underwoods

William Makepeace Thackeray

John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character
A Little Dinner at the Timmins's
Little Travels and Roadside Sketches (writing as Michael Angelo Titmarsh)
The Notch on the Ax
On Being Found Out

Anthony Trollope

Aaron Trow
Chateau of Prince Polignac
Courtship of Susan Bell
George Walker at Suez
House of Heine Brothers
John Bull on the Guadalquivir
La Mer Bauche
The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box
Miss Sarah Jack
Mistletoe Bough
Mrs. General Talboys
The O'Conors of Castle Conor
The Parson's Daughter
The Relics of General Chasse
Returning Home
Ride Across Palestine
Unprotected Woman

Horace Walpole

Hieroglyphic Tales

Amy Walton

The Kitchen Cat and Other Stories

Canadian

Harriet S. Caswell

The Path of Duty and Other Stories

CLARA ROSCOM OR THE PATH OF DUTY
TERRY DOLAN
THE FAITHFUL WIFE
EMMA ASHTON
THOUGHTS ON AUTUMN
WANDERING DAVY
LOOKING ON THE DARK SIDE
EDWARD BARTON
THE WEARY AT REST
THE RAINY AFTERNOON
THE STUDENT'S DREAM
UNCLE EPHRAIM
STORY OF A LOG CABIN
HAZEL-BROOK FARM
OLD RUFUS
THE DIAMOND RING
THE UNFORTUNATE MAN
THE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE
ARTHUR SINCLAIR
THE SNOW STORM
THE NEW YEAR
EARNEST HARWOOD; OR, THE ADOPTED SON

F. Clifford Smith

A Lover in Homespun and Other Stories

A Lover in Homespun
The Faith that Removes Mountains
A Pair of Boots
A Prairie Episode
A Daughter of the Church
A Perilous Encounter
Le Loup-Garou
A Christmas Adventure
Narcisse's Friend
A Strange Presentiment
A Memorable Dinner

Edward William Thomson

Old Man Savarin and Other Stories

OLD MAN SAVARIN
THE PRIVILEGE OF THE LIMITS
MCGRATH'S BAD NIGHT
GREAT GODFREY'S LAMENT
THE RED-HEADED WINDEGO
THE SHINING CROSS OF RIGAUD
LITTLE BAPTISTE
THE RIDE BY NIGHT
DRAFTED
A TURKEY APIECE
GRANDPAPA'S WOLF STORY
THE WATERLOO VETERAN
JOHN BEDELL
VERBITZSKY'S STRATAGEM

Danish

Hans Christian Andersen

Fairy Tales

The Emperor's New Clothes
The Swineherd
The Real Princess
The Shoes of Fortune
The Fir Tree
The Snow Queen
The Leap-Frog
The Elderbush
The Bell
The Old House
The Happy Family
The Story of a Mother
The False Collar
The Shadow
The Little Match Girl
The Dream of Little Tuk
The Naughty Boy
The Red Shoes

Jens Peter Jacobsen

Mogens and Other Stories

Introduction
Mogens
The Plague at Bergamo
There Should Have Been Roses
Mrs. Fonss

Egyptian

Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, editd by Flinders Petrie, 1899

first series, 4th to 12th dynasty

TALES OF THE MAGICIANS
KHAFRA'S TALE
BAUFRA'S TALE
HORDEDEF'S TALE
THE PEASANT AND THE WORKMAN
THE SHIPWRECKED SAILOR
THE ADVENTURES OF SANEHAT

second series, 18th to 19th dynasty

THE TAKING OF JOPPA
THE DOOMED PRINCE
ANPU AND BATA
SETNA AND THE MAGIC BOOK

French

Collections

One Hundred Merrie and Delightsome Stories (15th Century), translated to English by Robert Douglas
International Short Stories: French, in English translation, compiled by Francis J. Reynolds, 1910

A PIECE OF BREAD By Francois Coppee
THE ELIXIR OF LIFE By Honore de Balzac
THE AGE FOR LOVE By Paul Bourget
MATEO FALCONE By Prosper Merimee
THE MIRROR By Catulle Mendes
MY NEPHEW JOSEPH By Ludovic Halevy
A FOREST BETROTHAL By Erckmann-Chatrian
ZADIG THE BABYLONIAN By Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
ABANDONED By Guy de Maupassant
THE GUILTY SECRET By Paul de Kock
JEAN MONETTE By Eugene Francois Vidocq
SOLANGE By Alexandre Dumas
THE BIRDS IN THE LETTER-BOX By Rene Bazin
JEAN GOURDON'S FOUR DAYS By Emile Zola
BARON DE TRENCK By Clemence Robert
THE PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA By Henry Murger
THE WOMAN AND THE CAT By Marcel Prevost
GIL BLAS AND DR. SANGRADO By Alain Rene Le Sage
A FIGHT WITH A CANNON By Victor Hugo
TONTON By A. Cheneviere
THE LAST LESSON By Alphonse Daudet
CROISILLES By Alfred de Musset
THE VASE OF CLAY By Jean Aicard

Contes Francais, edited with notes and vocabulary by Douglas Buffum

MERIMEE

L'ENLEVEMENT DE LA REDOUTE
LE COUP DE PISTOLET

MAUPASSANT

LA MAIN
UNE VENDETTA
L'AVENTURE DE WALTER SCHNAFFS
TOMBOUCTOU
EN MER
LES PRISONNIERS
LE BAPTEME
TOINE
LE PERE MILON

DAUDET

LE CURE DE CUCUGNAN
LE SOUS-PREFET AUX CHAMPS
LE PAPE EST MORT
UN REVEILLON DANS LE MARAIS
LA VISION DU JUGE DE COLMAR

ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN

LA MONTRE DU DOYEN

COPPEE

LE LOUIS D'OR
L'ENFANT PERDU

GAUTIER

LA MILLE ET DEUXIEME NUIT

BALZAC

UN DRAME AU BORD DE LA MER.

MUSSET

CROISILLES

Honore de Balzac

Adieu, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

Another Study of Woman, translated to English by Ellen Marriage

The Atheist's Mass, translated to English by Clara Bell

Christ in Flanders, translated to English by Ellen Marriage

The Deserted Woman, translated to English by Ellen Marriage

Domestic Peace, translated to English by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell

A Drama on the Seashore, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

Droll Stories, in English

Volume 1

Translator's Preface

Prologue

The Fair Imperia

The Venial Sin

The King's Sweetheart

The Devil's Heir

The Merrie Jests of King Louis XI

The High Constable's Wife

The Maid of Thilouse

The Brother-in-Arms

The Vicar of Azay-Le-Rideau

The Reproach

Volume 2

Prologue

The Three Clerks of Saint Nicholas

The Continence of King Francis I

The Merry Tattle of the Nuns of Poissy

How the Chateau d'Azay Came to be Built

The False Courtesan

The Danger of Being Too Innocent

The Dear Night of Love

The Sermon of the Merry Vicar of Meudon

The Succubus

Despair in Love

Epilogue

Volume 3

Prologue

Perseverance in Love

Concerning a Provost Who Did Not Recognise Things

About the Monk Amador, who was a Glorious Abbot of Turpenay

Bertha the Penitent

How the Pretty Maid of Portillon Convinced Her Judge

In Which It Is Demonstrated that Fortune Is Always Feminine

Odd Sayings of Three Pilgrims

Innocence

El Verdugo, translated to English by Katharine Prescot Wormeley

The Elixir of Life, translated to English by Clara Bell and James Waring

An Episode under the Terror, translated to English by Clara Bell

The Exiles, translated to English by Clara Bell and James Waring

Facino Cane, translated to English by Clara Bell

Farewell, in English

Gaudissart II, translated to English by Clara Bell

The Hidden Masterpiece, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

The Illustrious Gaudissart, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

La Grande Breteche (sequel to Another Study of Woman), translated to English by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell

La Grenadiere, translated to English by Ellen Marriage

Madame Firmiani, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

A Man of Business, translated to English by Clara Bell

The Message, translated to English by Ellen Marriage

A Passion in the Desert, translated to English by Ernest Dawson

Pierre Grassou, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

A Prince of Bohemia, translated to English by Clara Bell

The Purse, translated to English by Clara Bell

The Recruit, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

The Red Inn, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

Sarrasine, translated to English by Clara Bell

Study of a Woman, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

Z. Marcas, translated to English by Clara Bell

Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian

The Man-Wolf and Other Tales

The Man-Wolf
Myrtle
Uncle Christian's Inheritance
The Bear-Baiting
The Scapegoat
A Night In The Woods

Francois Coppee

Ten Tales

THE CAPTAIN'S VICES
TWO CLOWNS
A VOLUNTARY DEATH
A DRAMATIC FUNERAL
THE SUBSTITUTE
AT TABLE
AN ACCIDENT
THE SABOTS OF LITTLE WOLFF
THE FOSTER SISTER
MY FRIEND MEURTRIER

Gustave Flaubert

Herodias
A Simple Soul
Three Short Works

The Dance of Death
The Legend of Saint-Julian the Hospitaller
A Simple Soul

Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant

Complete Short Stories -- 13 volumes, 180 stories, translated to English by Albert McNaster, A.E. Henderson, Madame Quesada et al.

Volume 1

Guy de Maupassant -- a Study by Pol. Neveux
Boule de Suif
Two Friends
The Lancer's Wife
The Prisoners
Two Little Soldiers
Father Milon
A Coup d'Etat
Lieutenant Lare's Marriage
The Horrible
Madame Parisse
Mademoiselle Fifi
A Duel

Volume 2

The Colonel's Ideas
Mother Sauvage
Epiphany
The Mustache
Madame Baptiste
The Question of Latin
A Meeting
The Blind Man
Indiscretion
A Family Affair
Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse

Volume 3

Miss Harriet
Little Louise Roque
The Donkey
Moiron
The Dispenser of Holy Water
The Parricide
Bertha
The Patron
The Door
A Sale
The Impolite Sex
A Wedding Gift
The Relic

Volume 4

The Moribund
The Gamekeeper
The Story of a Farm Girl
The Wreck
Theodule Sabot's Confession
The Wrong House
The Diamond Necklace
The Marquis de Fumerol
The Trip of the Horla
Farewell
The Wolf
The Inn

Volume 5

Monsieur Parent
Queen Hortense
Timbuctoo
Tombstones
Mademoiselle Pearl
The Thief
Claire de Lune
Waiter, a "Bock"
After
Forgiveness
In the Spring
A Queer Night in Paris

Volume 6

That Costly Ride
Useless Beauty
The Father
My Uncle Sosthenes
The Baroness
Mother and Son
The Hand
A Tress of Hair
On the River
The Cripple
A Stroll
Alexandre
The Log
Julie Romain
The Rondoli Sisters

Volume 7

The False Gems
Fascination
Yvette Samoris
A Vendetta
My Twenty-Five Days
"The Terror"
Legend of Mont St. Michel
A New Year's Gift
Friend Patience
Abandoned
The Maison Tellier
Denis
My Wife
The Unknown
The Apparition

Volume 8

Clochette
The Kiss
The Legion of Honor
The Test
Found on a Drowned Man
The Orphan
The Beggar
The Rabbit
His Avenger
My Uncle Jules
The Model
A Vagabond
The Fishing Hole
The Spasm
In the Wood
Martine
All Over
The Parrot
A Piece of String

Volume 9

Toine
Madame Husson's Roster
The Adopted Son
A Coward
Old Mongilet
Moonlight
The First Snowfall
Sundays of a Bourgeois
A Recollection
Our Letters
The Love of Long Ago
Friend Joseph
The Effeminates
Old Amable

Volume 10

The Christening
The Farmer's Wife
The Devil
The Snipe
The Will
Walter Schnaff's Adventure
At Sea
Minuet
The Son
That Pig of a Morin
Saint Anthony
Lasting Love
Pierrot
A Normandy Joke
Father Matthew

Volume 11

The Umbrella
Belhomme's Beast
Discovery
The Accursed Bread
The Dowry
The Diary of a Mad Man
The Mask
The Penguins' Rock
A Family
Suicides
An Artifice
Dreams
Simon's Papa

Volume 12

The Child
A Country Excursion
Rose
Rosalie Prudent
Regret
A Sister's Confession
Coco
A Dead Woman's Secret
A Humble Drama
Mademoiselle Cocotte
The Corsican Bandit
The Grave

Volume 13

Old Judas
The Little Cask
Boitelle
A Widow
The Englishmen of Etretat
Magnetism
A Father's Confession
A Mother of Monsters
An Uncomfortable Bed
A Portrait
The Drunkard
The Wardrobe
The Mountain Pool
A Cremation
Misti
Madame Hermet
The Magic Couch

Boule de Suif and Other Stories, in French

Boule de Suif
L'Epave
Decouverte
Un Parricide
Le Rendez-vous
Bombard
Le Pain Maudit
Les Sabots
La Buche
Magnetisme
Divorce
Une Soiree

A Comedy of Marriage: Musotte, the Lancer's Wife and Other Stories, in English

LA PAIX DU MENAGE
MUSOTTE
ADDENDA
THE LANCER'S WIFE
HAUTOT SENIOR AND HAUTOT JUNIOR
NO QUARTER
THE ORPHAN
A LIVELY FRIEND
THE BLIND MAN
THE IMPOLITE SEX
THE CAKE
THE CORSICAN BANDIT
THE DUEL

Contes du Jour et de la Nuit, in French

DES VERS.
LA MAISON TELLIER.
MADEMOISELLE FIFI.
UNE VIE.
LES CONTES DE LA BÉCASSE.
CLAIR DE LUNE.
AU SOLEIL.
MISS HARRIETT.
LES SOEURS RONDOLI.
YVETTE.

Le Horla and Other Stories, in French

LE HORLA
AMOUR
LE TROU
SAUVEE
CLOCHETTE
LE MARQUIS DE FUMEROL
LE SIGNE
LE DIABLE
LES ROIS
AU BOIS
UNE FAMILLE
JOSEPH
L'AUBERGE
LE VAGABOND

Works of Guy de Maupassant, volume 1, in English

Boule de Suif
Miss Harriet
Francesca and Carlotta Rondoli
Chali
The Umbrella
My Uncle Sosthenes
He?
A Philosopher
Always Lock the Door!
A Meeting
The Little Cask
How He Got the Legion of Honor
The Accursed Bread
What Was Really the Matter with Andrew
My Landlady
The Horla, or Modern Ghosts
Love. Three Pages from a Sportsman's Book
The Hole
Saved
Bellflower
The Marquis de Fumerol
The Signal
The Devil
Epiphany
In the Wood
A Family
Joseph
The Inn
Ugly

Works of Guy de Maupassant, volume 2, in English

Monsier Parent
The Father
a Vagabond
Useless Beauty
Fly
The Mad Woman
That Pig of a Morin
The Wooden Shoes
A Normandy Joke
A Cock Crowed
Julot's Opinion
Mademoiselle
The Mountebanks
The Sequel to a Divorce
The man with the Dogs
The Clown
Babette
Sympahy
The Debt
An Artist
Mademoiselle Fifi
The Story of a Farm Girl
Mamma Stirling
Lilie Lala
Madame Tellier's Establishment
The Bandmaster's Sister
False Alram
Wife and Mistress
Mad
An Unfortunate Likeness
The New Sensation

Works of Guy de Maupassant, volume 3, in English

The Viaticum
The Relics
The Thief
A Rupture
A Useful House
The Accent
Ghosts
Crash
An Honest Ideal
Stable Perfume
The Ill-Omened Groom
an Exotic Prince
Virtue in the Ballet
In His Sweetheart's Livery
Delila
A Mesalliance
Bertha
Abandoned
A Night in Whitechapel
Contess Satan
Kind Girls
Profitable Business
Violated
Jeroboam
The Log
Margot's Tapers
Caught in the Very Act
The Confession
Was It a Dream
The Last Step
The Will
A Country Excursion
The Lancer's Wife
The Colonel's Ideas
One Evening
The Hermaphrodite
Marroca
An Artifice
The Assignation
An Adventure
The Double Pins
Under the Yoke
The Real One and the Other
The Upstart
The Carter's Wench
The Marquis
The Bed
An Adventure in Paris
Madame Baptiste
Happiness

Works of Guy de Maupassant volume 4

The Old Maid
The Awakening
In the Spring
The Jennet
Rust
The Substitute
The Relic
The Man with the blue Eyes
Allouma
A Family Affair
The Odalisque of Senichou
A Good Match
A Fashionable Woman
The Carnival of Love
A Deer Park in the Provinces
The White Lady
Caught
Christmas Eve
Words of Love
A Divorce Case
Who Knows?
Simon's Papa
Paul's Mistress
The Rabbit
The Twenty-Five Frances of the Mother Superior
The Venus of Branza
La Morillonne
Water, a "Bock"
Regret
The Port
The Hermit
The Orderly
Duchoux
Old Amable
Magnetism

Prosper Merimee

Quatre Contes, in French, edited with notes and vocabulary by F.C.L. van Steenderen

Marguerite Valois, Queen of Navarre

The Heptameron (72 stories)

volume 1
volume 2
volume 3
volume 4
volume 5

Emile Zola

Captain Burle
Contes a Ninon, in French

A NINON
SIMPLICE
LE CARNET DE DANSE
CELLE QUI M'AIME
LA FÉE AMOUREUSE
LE SANG
LES VOLEURS ET L'ÂNE
SOEUR-DES-PAUVRES
AVENTURES DU GRAND SIDOINE ET DU PETIT MÉDÉRIC

Nouveaux Contes a Ninon

Un bain
Les fraises
Le grand Michu
Le jeûne
Les épaules de la marquise
Mon voisin Jacques
Le paradis des chats
Lili
La légende du Petit-Manteau bleu de l'amour
Le forgeron
Le chômage
Le petit village

The Death of Olivier Becaille
The Flood
The Miller's Daughter

German

Collections

German Stories volume 1

The Fury by Paul Heyse
The Philosopher's Pendulum by Rudolph Lindau
The Bookbinder of Hort by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The Egyptian Fire-Eater by Rudolph Baumbach
Adventures of a New Year's Eve by Heinrich Zschokke

German Stories volume 2

Christian Gellert's Last Christmas by Berthold Auerbach
A Ghetto Violet by Leopold Kompert
The Severed Hand by Wilhelm Hauff
Peter Schlemihl by Adelbert von Chamisso

Wilhelm Hauff

The Severed Hand

E.T.A. Hoffmann

The Cremona Violin
Kleines Zaches Genannt Zinnober, in German

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Fabeln und Erzahlungen

Das Geheimnis
Das Kruzifix
Das Muster der Ehen
Der über uns
Der Adler und die Eule
Der Eremit
Der Hirsch und der Fuchs
Der Löwe und die Mücke
Der Sperling und die Feldmaus
Der Tanzbär
Der Wunsch zu sterben
Die Bäre
Die Brille
Die Nuß und die Katze
Die Sonne
Die Teilung
Die eheliche Liebe
Die kranke Pulcheria
Faustin
Morydan
Nix Bodenstrom

Theodore Storm

Immensee, translated by C.W. Bell

Ancient Greek

Lucian of Samosata

Works

Volume 1 of 4

Preface
Introduction
The Vision
A Literary Prometheus
Nigrinus
Trial in the Court of Vowels
Timon the Misanthrope
Prometheus on Caucasus
Dialogues of the Gods
Dialogues of the Sea-Gods
Dialogues of the Dead
Menippus
Charon
Of Sacrifice
Sale of Creeds
The Fisher
Voyage to the Lower World

Volume 2 of 4

The Dependent Scholar
Apology for 'The Dependent Scholar"
A Slip of the Tongue in Salutation
Hermotimus or the Rival Philosophies
Herodotus and Aetioin
Zeuxis and Antiochus
Harmonides
The Scythian
The Way to Write History
The True History
The Tyrannicide
The Disinherited
Phalaris I
Phalaris II
Alexander the Oracle Monger
Of Pantomime
Lexiphanes

Volume 3 of 4

Life of Demonax
A Portrait-Study
Defence of the 'Portrait Study'
Toxaris: a Dialogue of Friendship
Zeus Cross-Examined
Zeus Tragoedus
The Cock
Icaromenippus, an Aerial Expedition
The Double Indictment
The Parasite, a Demonstration that Sponging is a Profession
Anacharsis, a Discussion of Physical Training
Of Mourning
The Rhetorician's Vade Mecum
The Liar
Dionysis, an Introductory Lecture
Heracles, an Introductory Lecture
Swans and Amber
The Fly, an Appreciation
Remarks Addressed to an Illiterate Book-Fancier

Indian

Collections

Vikram and the Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales edited by Isabel Burton

THE VAMPIRE'S FIRST STORY. In which a Man deceives a Woman
THE VAMPIRE'S SECOND STORY. Of the Relative Villany of Men and Woman
THE VAMPIRE'S THIRD STORY. Of a High-minded Family
THE VAMPIRE'S FOURTH STORY. Of a Woman who told the Truth
THE VAMPIRE'S FIFTH STORY. Of the Thief who Laughed and Wept
THE VAMPIRE'S SIXTH STORY. In which Three Men dispute about a Woman
THE VAMPIRE'S SEVENTH STORY. Showng the exceeding Folly of many wise Fools
THE VAMPIRE'S EIGHTH STORY. Of the Use and Misuse of Magic Pills
THE VAMPIRE'S NINTH STORY. Showing that a Man's Wife belongs not to his body but to his Head
THE VAMPIRE'S TENTH STORY. Of the Marvellous Delicacy of Three Queens
THE VAMPIRE'S ELEVENTH STORY. Which puzzles Raja Vikram

S.B. Bannerjea

Tales of Bengal

The Pride of Kadampur
The Rival Markets
A Foul Conspiracy
The Biter Bitten
All's Well That Ends Well
An Outrageous Swindle
The Virtue of Economy
A Peacemaker
A Brahman's Curse
A Roland for His Oliver
Ramda
A Rift in the Lute
Debenbra Babu in Trouble
True to His Salt
A Tame Rabbit
Gobardhan's Triumph
Patience is a Virtue

Rabindranath Tagore

The Hungry Stones and Other Stories

The Hungry Stones
The Victory
Once There Was A King
The Home-coming
My Lord, The Baby
The Kingdom Of Cards
The Devotee
Vision
The Babus Of Nayanjore
Living Or Dead?
"We Crown Thee King"
The Renunciation
The Cabuliwallah [The Fruitseller from Cabul]

Irish

Stories by English Authors: Ireland

The Gridiron by Samuel Lover
The Emergency Men by George Jessop
A Lost Recruit by Jane Barlow
The Rival Dreamers by John Banim
Neal Malone by William Carleton
The Banshee by Anonymous

Seumas O'Kelly (1881-1918)

Waysiders: Stories of Connacht
The Can with the Diamond Notch

Both Sides of the Pond
The White Goat
The Sick Call
The Shoemaker
The Rector
The Home-Coming
A Wayside Burial
The Gray Lake
The Building

Italian

Collections

Italian Stories

A Great Day by Edmondo de Amicis, translated by Edith Wharton
College Friends by Edmondo de Amicis, translated by Edith Wharton
Pereat Rochus by Antonio Fogazzaro, translated by A. L. Frothingham, Jr.
San Pantaleone by Gabriele d'Annunzio, translated by George McLean Harper
It Snows by Enrico Castelnuovo, translated by Edith Wharton

Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron, translated by J. M. Rigg, 100 stories (10 per day for 10 days)

Volume 1
Volume 2

Japan

Tales of Old Japan by Lord Redesdale

THE FORTY-SEVEN RONINS
THE LOVES OF GOMPACHI AND KOMURASAKI
KAZUMA'S REVENGE
A STORY OF THE OTOKODATE OF YEDO
THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF FUNAKOSHI JIUYEMON
THE ETA MAIDEN AND THE HATAMOTO
FAIRY TALES

THE TONGUE-CUT SPARROW
THE ACCOMPLISHED AND LUCKY TEA-KETTLE
THE CRACKLING MOUNTAIN
THE STORY OF THE OLD MAN WHO MADE WITHERED TREES TO BLOSSOM
THE BATTLE OF THE APE AND THE CRAB
THE ADVENTURES OF LITTLE PEACHLING
THE FOXES' WEDDING
THE HISTORY OF SAKATA KINTOKI
THE ELVES AND THE ENVIOUS NEIGHBOUR

THE GHOST OF SAKURA
HOW TAJIMA SHUME WAS TORMENTED BY A DEVIL OF HIS OWN CREATION
CONCERNING CERTAIN SUPERSTITIONS

THE VAMPIRE CAT OF NABESHIMA
THE STORY OF THE FAITHFUL CAT
HOW A MAN WAS BEWITCHED AND HAD HIS HEAD SHAVED BY THE FOXES
THE GRATEFUL FOXES
THE BADGER'S MONEY
THE PRINCE AND THE BADGER

JAPANESE SERMONS
THE SERMONS OF KIU-O, VOL. I. SERMON I.
" " SERMON II.
" " SERMON III.

Norwegian
Alexander Kielland

Tales of Two Countries

PHARAOH
THE PARSONAGE
THE PEAT MOOR
"HOPE'S CLAD IN APRIL GREEN"
AT THE FAIR
TWO FRIENDS
A GOOD CONSCIENCE
ROMANCE AND REALITY
WITHERED LEAVES
THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO

Polish

Selected Polish Tales, translated by Else C.M. Benecke and Marie Busch

THE OUTPOST. By BOLESLAW PRUS
A PINCH or SALT. By ADAM SZYMANSKI
KOWALSKI THE CARPENTER. By ADAM SZYMANSKI
FOREBODINGS. By STEFAN ZERKOMSKI
A POLISH SCENE. By WLADYSLAW ST. REYMONT
DEATH. By WLADYSLAW ST. REYMONT
THE SENTENCE. By J. KADEN-BANDROWSKI
'P.P.C.' By MME KYCIER-NALKOWSKA

Henryk Sienkiewicz

The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall

Roman

Lucius Apuleius

The Golden Ass, translated to English by William Adlington

Russian

Collections

Best Russian Short Stories, edited by Thomas Seltzer

THE QUEEN OF SPADES _A.S. Pushkin
THE CLOAK _N.V. Gogol
THE DISTRICT DOCTOR _I.S. Turgenev
THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDING _F.M. Dostoyevsky
GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS _L.N. Tolstoy
HOW A MUZHIK FED TWO OFFICIALS _M.Y. Saltykov
THE SHADES, A PHANTASY _V.G. Korolenko
THE SIGNAL _V.N. Garshin
THE DARLING _A.P. Chekhov
THE BET _A.P. Chekhov
VANKA _A.P. Chekhov
HIDE AND SEEK _F.K. Sologub
DETHRONED _I.N. Potapenko
THE SERVANT _S.T. Semyonov
ONE AUTUMN NIGHT _M. Gorky
HER LOVER _M. Gorky
LAZARUS _L.N. Andreyev
THE REVOLUTIONIST _M.P. Artzybashev
THE OUTRAGE _A.I. Kuprin

The Shield, edited by Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, and Fyodor Sologub, 1917

MAXIM GORKY, Russia and the Jews
LEONID ANDREYEV, The First Step
VLADIMIR KOROLENKO, Mr. Jackson's Opinion on the Jewish Question
PAUL MILYUKOV, The Jewish Question in Russia
M. BERNATZKY, The Jews and Russian Economic Life
PRINCE PAUL DOLGORUKOV, The War and the Status of the Jew
MAXIM KOVALEVSKY, Jewish Rights and Their Enemies
DMITRY MEREZHKOVSKY, The Jewish Question as a Russian Question
VYACHESLAV IVANOV, Concerning the Ideology of the Jewish Question
MAXIM GORKY, The Little Boy, a Story
FYODOR SOLOGUB, The Fatherland for All
VLADIMIR SOLOVYOV, On Nationalism
COUNT IVAN TOLSTOY, Concerning the Legal Status of the Jews
LEONID ANDREYEV, The Wounded Soldier, a Story
CATHERINE KUSKOVA, How to Help?
S. YELPATYEVSKY, The Homeless Ones
MICHAEL ARTZIBASHEF, The Jew, a Story

Leonid Andreyev

The Crushed Flower and Other Stories

The Crushed Flower
A Story Which Will Never Be Finished
On the Day of the Crucifixion
The Serpent's Story
Love, Faith and Hope
The Ocean
Judas Iscariot and Others
"The Man Who Found the Truth"

Anton Chekhov

The Slanderer translated by Herman Bernstein

Tales of Chekhov

Volume 1, The Darling and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnet

THE DARLING

ARIADNE

POLINKA

ANYUTA

THE TWO VOLODYAS

THE TROUSSEAU

THE HELPMATE

TALENT

AN ARTIST'S STORY

THREE YEARS

Volume 3, The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories

THE LADY WITH THE DOG

A DOCTOR'S VISIT

AN UPHEAVAL

IONITCH

THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY

THE BLACK MONK

VOLODYA

AN ANONYMOUS STORY

THE HUSBAND

Volume 4, The Party and Other Stories

THE PARTY

TERROR

A WOMAN'S KINGDOM

A PROBLEM

THE KISS

'ANNA ON THE NECK'

THE TEACHER OF LITERATURE

NOT WANTED

TYPHUS

A MISFORTUNE

A TRIFLE FROM LIFE

Volume 7, The Bishop and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett

THE BISHOP

THE LETTER

EASTER EVE

A NIGHTMARE

THE MURDER

UPROOTED

THE STEPPE

Volume 8, The Chorus Girl and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett

THE CHORUS GIRL

VEROTCHKA

MY LIFE

AT A COUNTRY HOUSE

A FATHER

ON THE ROAD

ROTHSCHILD'S FIDDLE

IVAN MATVEYITCH

ZINOTCHKA

BAD WEATHER

A GENTLEMAN FRIEND

A TRIVIAL INCIDENT

Volume 10, Horse Stealers and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett

THE HORSE-STEALERS

WARD NO. 6

THE PETCHENYEG

A DEAD BODY

A HAPPY ENDING

THE LOOKING-GLASS

OLD AGE

DARKNESS

THE BEGGAR

A STORY WITHOUT A TITLE

IN TROUBLE

FROST

A SLANDER

MINDS IN FERMENT

GONE ASTRAY

AN AVENGER

THE JEUNE PREMIER

A DEFENCELESS CREATURE

AN ENIGMATIC NATURE

A HAPPY MAN

A TROUBLESOME VISITOR

AN ACTOR'S END

Volume 11, The Schoolmaster and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett

THE SCHOOLMASTER

ENEMIES

THE EXAMINING MAGISTRATE

BETROTHED

FROM THE DIARY OF A VIOLENT-TEMPERED MAN

IN THE DARK

A PLAY

A MYSTERY

STRONG IMPRESSIONS

DRUNK

THE MARSHAL'S WIDOW

A BAD BUSINESS

IN THE COURT

BOOTS

JOY

LADIES

A PECULIAR MAN

AT THE BARBER'S

AN INADVERTENCE

THE ALBUM

OH! THE PUBLIC

A TRIPPING TONGUE

OVERDOING IT

THE ORATOR

MALINGERERS

IN THE GRAVEYARD

HUSH!

IN AN HOTEL

IN A STRANGE LAND

Volume 12, The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett

THE COOK'S WEDDING

SLEEPY

CHILDREN

THE RUNAWAY

GRISHA

OYSTERS

HOME

A CLASSICAL STUDENT

VANKA

AN INCIDENT

A DAY IN THE COUNTRY

BOYS

SHROVE TUESDAY

THE OLD HOUSE

IN PASSION WEEK

WHITEBROW

KASHTANKA

A CHAMELEON

THE DEPENDENTS

WHO WAS TO BLAME?

THE BIRD MARKET

AN ADVENTURE

THE FISH

ART

THE SWEDISH MATCH

Love and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett

LOVE

LIGHTS

A STORY WITHOUT AN END

MARI D'ELLE

A LIVING CHATTEL

THE DOCTOR

TOO EARLY!

THE COSSACK

ABORIGINES

AN INQUIRY

MARTYRS

THE LION AND THE SUN

A DAUGHTER OF ALBION

CHORISTERS

NERVES

A WORK OF ART

A JOKE

A COUNTRY COTTAGE

A BLUNDER

FAT AND THIN

THE DEATH OF A GOVERNMENT CLERK

A PINK STOCKING

AT A SUMMER VILLA

The Duel and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett

THE DUEL

EXCELLENT PEOPLE

MIRE

NEIGHBOURS

AT HOME

EXPENSIVE LESSONS

THE PRINCESS

THE CHEMIST'S WIFE

The Schoolmistress and Other Stories, English translation

The School Mistress
A Nervous Breakdown
Misery
Champagne
After the Theatre
A Lady's Story
In Exile
The Cattle-Dealers
Sorrow
On Official Duty
The First-Class Passenger
A Tragic Actor
A Transgression
Small Fry
The Requiem
In the Coach-House
Panic Fears
The Bet
The Head-Gardener's Story
The Beauties
The Shoemaker and the Devil

The Wife and Other Stories, translated to English by Constance Garnett

The Wife
Difficult People
The Grasshopper
A Dreary Story
The Privy Councillor
The Man in a Case
Gooseberries
About Love
The Lottery Ticket

The Witch and Other Stories

The Witch
Peasant Wives
The Post
The New Villa
Dreams
The Pipe
Agafya
At Christmas Time
GUSEV
The Student
In the Ravine
The Huntsman
Happiness
A Malefactor
Peasants

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov, translated by S.S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf

Nikolai Gogol

Taras Bulba and Other Stories

Introduction by John Cournos
Taras Bulba
St. John's Eve
The Cloak
How the Two Ivans Quarrelled
The Mysterious Portrait
The Calash

Maxim Gorky

Twenty-Six and One and Other Stories

Twenty-Six and One
Tchelkache
Malva

Boris Pilnyak ( = Boris Andreyevich Vogau)

Tales of the Wilderness

THE SNOW
A YEAR OF THEIR LIVES
A THOUSAND YEARS
OVER THE RAVINE
ALWAYS ON DETACHMENT
THE SNOW WIND
THE FOREST MANOR
THE BIELOKONSKY ESTATE
DEATH
THE HEIRS
THE CROSSWAYS

Alexander Pushkin

The Queen of Spades translated by H. Twitchell
The Shot

Leo Tolstoy

Father Sergius
The Forged Coupon and Other Stories

Introduction
The Forged Coupon
After the Dance
Alyosha the Pot
My Dream
There Are No Guilty People
The Young Tsar

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

Translator's Preface
The Kreutzer Sonata
Ivan the Fool
A Lost Opportunity
Polikushka
The Candle

Master and Man, translated to English by Louise and Aylmer Maude
An Old Acquaintance

Ivan Turgenev

A Desperate Character and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett

Pyetushkov, 1847
The Brigadier, 1867
A Strange Story, 1869
Punin and Baburin, 1874
Old Portraits, 1881
A Desperate Character, 1881

Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett

THE DIARY OF A SUPERFLUOUS MAN
A TOUR IN THE FOREST
YAKOV PASINKOV
ANDREI KOLOSOV
A CORRESPONDENCE

Dream Tales and Prose Poems, translated by Constance Garnett

CLARA MILITCH
PHANTOMS
THE SONG OF TRIUMPHANT LOVE
THE DREAM
POEMS IN PROSE

The Jew and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett

THE JEW
AN UNHAPPY GIRL
THE DUELLIST
THREE PORTRAITS
ENOUGH

A Sportsman's Sketches

Volume 1

HOR AND KALINITCH
YERMOLAI AND THE MILLER'S WIFE
RASPBERRY SPRING
THE DISTRICT DOCTOR
MY NEIGHBOUR RADILOV
THE PEASANT PROPRIETOR OVSYANIKOV
LGOV
BYEZHIN PRAIRIE
KASSYAN OF FAIR SPRINGS
THE AGENT
THE COUNTING-HOUSE
BIRYUK
TWO COUNTRY GENTLEMEN
LEBEDYAN

Volume 2

TATYANA BORISSOVNA AND HER NEPHEW
DEATH
THE SINGERS
PIOTR PETROVITCH KARATAEV
THE TRYST
THE HAMLET OF THE SHTCHIGRI DISTRICT
TCHERTOP-HANOV AND NEDOPYUSKIN
THE END OF TCHERTOP-HANOV
A LIVING RELIC
THE RATTLING OF WHEELS
EPILOGUE: THE FOREST AND THE STEPPE

South African

Frederick Carruthers Cornell

A Rip Van Windle of the Kalahari and other Tales of South-West Africa

Arthur Shearly Cripps

Cinderella in the South, South African Tales, 1918

Perceval Gibbon

Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases, 17 Short Stories

UNTO THE THIRD GENERATION
THE DREAM-FACE
THE AVENGER OF BLOOD
THE HANDS OF THE PITIFUL WOMAN
PIET NAUDE'S TREK
LIKE UNTO LIKE
COUNTING THE COLORS
THE KING OF THE BABOONS
MORDER DRIFT
A GOOD END
VASCO'S SWEETHEART
THE PERUVIAN
TAGALASH
THE HOME KRAAL
THE SACRIFICE
THE COWARD
HER OWN STORY

The Second-Class Passenger

THE SECOND-CLASS PASSENGER
THE SENSE OF CLIMAX
THE TRADER OF LAST NOTCH
THE MURDERER
THE VICTIM
BETWEEN THE LIGHTS
THE MASTER
"PARISIENNE"
LOLA
THE POOR IN HEART
THE MAN WHO KNEW
THE HIDDEN WAY
THE STRANGE PATIENT
THE CAPTAIN'S ARM
THE WIDOWER

Those Who Smiled and Eleven Other Stories

THOSE WHO SMILED
THE DAGO
WOOD-LADIES
A MAN BEFORE THE MAST
THE GIRL
THE BREADWINNER
"PLAIN GERMAN"
ALMS AND THE MAN
THE DARKENED PATH
MISS PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
THE CONNOISSEUR
THE DAY OF OMENS

Cynthia Stockley

Blue Aloes, Stories of South Africa, 1919

Spanish

Stories by Foreign Authors -- Spanish

THE TALL WOMAN .. .. .. .. .. .. by Pedro Antonio De Alarcon
THE WHITE BUTTERFLY. .. .. .. .. by Jose Selgas
THE ORGANIST.. .. .. .. .. .. .. by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
MOORS AND CHRISTIANS .. .. .. .. by Pedro Antonio De Alarcon
BREAD CAST UPON THE WATERS .. .. by Fernan Caballero

Miguel Cervantes

Exemplary Novels

THE LADY CORNELIA
RINCONETE AND CORTADILLO; OR, PETER OF THE CORNER AND THE LITTLE CUTTER
THE LICENTIATE VIDRIERA; OR, DOCTOR GLASS-CASE
THE DECEITFUL MARRIAGE
DIALOGUE BETWEEN SCIPIO AND BERGANZA, DOGS OF THE HOSPITAL OF THE RESURRECTION IN THE CITY OF VALLADOLID,

THE LITTLE GIPSY GIRL
THE GENEROUS LOVER
THE SPANISH-ENGLISH LADY
THE FORCE OF BLOOD
THE JEALOUS ESTRAMADURAN
THE ILLUSTRIOUS SCULLERY-MAID
THE TWO DAMSELS

Swedish

August Strindberg

In Midsummer Days and other Tales

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