| Description |
xxii, 1233 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"First printing." |
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"Biographical notes": p. [1203]-1233. |
| Contents |
The Pardoner's Tale / Geoffrey Chaucer -- The marvellous Adventureof the sword / Sir Thomas Malory -- Tha apparition of Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe -- The vision of Mirza / Joseph Addison -- Asem , an eastern tale / Oliver Goldsmith -- The Two Drovers / Sir Walter Scott--The iron shroud / William Mudford -- The gridiron / Samuel Lover -- The house and the brain / E. Bulwer-Lytton -- Con Cregan's legacy / Charles Lever -- Rab and His Friends / John Brown -- The half-brothers / Elizabeth c. Gaskell -- Sultan stork / William Makepeace Thackeray |
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A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens -- Malachi's Cove / Anthony Trollope -- The punishment of Shahpesh, the Persian, on Khipil, the builder / George Meredith -- The Three Strangers / Thomas Hardy --The story of Piebald Horse / W. H. Hudson -- Sire de Maletroit's Door / Robert Louis Stevenson -- A lodging for the night / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The story of Dr. Maclure / John Watson (Ian Maclaren) -- Faith / R. Cunningame Grahm -- The clerk's quest / George Moore -- The birthday of the infanta / Oscar Wilde -- Youth / Joseph Conrad -- The Captain of the "Ulls-water" / Morley Roberts |
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The adventure of the speckled band / A. Conan Doyle -- The Courting of T'nowhead's bell / Sir James Matthew Barbie -- The Babus of Nayanjore / Sir Rabindranath Tagore -- Philippa's fox-hunt / E. Somerville and Martin Ross -- The Mezzotint / Montague Rhodes James -- "Hey diddle diddle, the cat..." / Eden Phillpotts --the Adventure of the kind Mr. Smith / William J. Locke -- The roll-call on the reef / Sir Arthur T. Quillercouch -- That Brute Simmons / Arthur Morrison -- The Monkey's Paw / W. W. Jacobs -- The doll in the pink dress / Leonard Merrick--The drums of the fore and aft / Rudyard Kipling -- The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling |
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Red Hanrahan / William Butler Yeats -- The country of the blind / H. G. Wells -- Mary with the high hand / Arnold Bennett -- The apple-tree / John Galsworthy -- Action / C. E. Montague -- The valley of the beasts / Algernon Blackwood -- Mrs. Pacletide's tiger / Saki -- The happy hypocrite / Max Beerbohm -- The derelict / H. M. Tomlinson--Red / W. Somerset Maugham -- The hammer of God / G. K. Chesterton -- The kings of Orion / John Buchan -- The stranger in the village / Sir Philip Gibbs |
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The Higgler / A. E. Coppard -- The Western Islands / John Masefield -- The Sword of Welleran / John Masefield -- The celestial omnibus / E. M. Forster -- The Log of the "Evening Star" / Alfred Noyes -- Jeeves and the Song of Songs/ P. G. Wodehouse -- Three lovers who lost / James Stephens -- the dead / James Joyce -- Purple and fine linen / May Edginton -- Mr. Oddy / Sir Hugh Walpole -- A Busman's Holiday / Francis Brett Young -- A sleeping draft / Weston Martyr-- The Prussian officer / D. H. Lawrence |
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Fish are such liars / Roland Pertwee -- A source of irritation / Stacy Aumonier -- The Chink and the child / Thomas Burke -- Life of Ma Parker / Katherine Mansfield -- A day in a woman's life / Sheila Kaye-Smith -- Rivers of Damascus / Donn Byrne -- The Gioconda smile / Aldous Huxley -- The cavalier fo the streets / Michael Arlen -- The old hunter / Liam O'Flaherty --The white cottage / L. A. G. Strong -- The trapper's mates / Henry Williamson -- The forty-third division / Ralph Bates --The eyes / Thomas Owen Beachcroft -- The betting Scotchman -- Bella Fleace gave a party / Evelyn Waugh |
| Subject |
Short stories, English.
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Short stories, English. |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories, English.
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Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Moriarty, Henry C. (Henry Curran)
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Cerf, Bennett, 1898-1971. Bedside book of famous British stories. New York, Random House [c1940] (OCoLC)592230895 |
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