| Edition |
[1st ed.] |
| Description |
884 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
The split second / Daphne du Maurier -- The theft of the Mona Lisa / Karl Decker -- The soldiers' peaches / Stuart Cloete -- A night to remember (an extract) / Walter Lord -- Aerial football / George Bernard Shaw -- Courtship of my cousin Doone / Walter D. Edmonds -- Hotel room (from the book) / Cornell Woolrich -- Two soldiers / William Faulker -- How we kept mother's day / Stephen Leacock -- The witness for the prosecution / Agatha Cristie -- The incredible journey / Sheila Burnford -- The catbird seat / James Thurber -- Act One (an extract) / Moss Hart -- The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Gigi / Colette -- The little minister (an extract) / Sir James M. Barrie -- The alien corn / W. Somerset Maugham -- A profile in courage (from the book) / John F. Kennedy -- The company of the marjolaine / John Buchan -- First day finish (from The Friendly Persuasion) / Jessamyn West -- The adventure of the priory school / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- A christmas memory / Truman Capote -- Death and Professor Raikes / Alice Duer Miller -- Leningen versus the ants / Carl Stephenson -- Mrs. 'Arris goes to Paris / Paul Gallico -- They / Rudyard Kipling -- Son of a tinker / Maurice Walsh -- History lesson / Arthur C. Clarke -- The truth about the flood / Werner Keller -- A candle for St. Jude / Rumer Godden. |
| Subject |
Fiction -- Collections.
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Fiction. |
| Genre/Form |
Collections.
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Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Costain, Thomas B. (Thomas Bertram), 1885-1965.
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Beecroft, John.
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| Added Title |
Thirty stories to remember |
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