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Tellers of tales: 100 short stories from the United States, England, France, Russia and Germany
Publisher
Doubleday, Doran & company, inc
Publication Date
1939
Language
English
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From the Book
Introduction / W. Somerset Maugham
The two drovers / Sir Walter Scott
Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving
The stout gentleman / Washington Irving
La grande breteche / Honore de Balzac
The gray champion / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The crimson curtain / Jules Barbey dʼAurevilly
The gold-bug / Edgar Allen Poe
A simple heart / Gustave Flaubert
Krambambuli / Marie von Ebner-Eichenbach
The outcasts of poker flat / Francis Bret Harte
Olympe and Henriette / Villiers dʼlʼIsle Adam
The three strangers / Thomas Hardy
The jolly corner / Henry James
The procurator of Judea / Anatole France
Youth / Karl Emil Franzos Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson
The necklace / Guy de Maupassant
The legacy / Guy de Maupassant
Useless Mouths / Octave Mirbeau
The happy prince / Oscar Wilde
The adventure of the Bruce-Partington plans / A. Conan Doyle Typhoon / Joseph Conrad
The fate of the baron / Arthur Schnitzler
The whirligig of life / O. Henry
Without visible means / Arthur Morrison
The stricken doe / Pierre Mille
The monkeyʼs paw / W.W. Jacobs
The coach / Violet Hunt
The last visit / Tristan Bernard
The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling
Without benefit of clergy / Rudyard Kipling
Papago wedding / Mary Austin
Uncle Franz / Ludwig Thoma
The door in the wall / H.G. Wells
An experiment in misery / Stephen Crane Tobermorey / Saki
To build a fire / Jack London
The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy
The toupee artist / Nicolai Lyeskov Mouzhiks / Anton Chekhov
Twenty six and one / Maxim Gorky Sunstroke / Ivan Bonin
Captain Ribnikov / Alexander Kuprin.
Hydromel / Vassili Iretsky
Without cherry blossom / Pantaleimon Romanof
In the town of Berdichev / Vassili Grossman
Hunger / Alexander Neweroff
Romance / Vera Inber
Earth on the hands / Boris Pilnjak
A letter / Isaac Babel
The child / Vsevolod Ivanov
The customer / Georgy Peskov
The knives / Valentine Katayev
Pippo Spano / Heinrich Mann
Old Rogaum and his Theresa / Theodore Dreiser
A.V. Lajder / Max Beerbohm
The amulet / Jacob Wasermann
Cavelry patrol / Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Seeds / Sherwood Anderson
The other woman / Sherwood Anderson
Early sorrow / Thomas Mann
Mr. and Mrs. Abbeyʼs difficulties / E. M. Forster
The invisible collection / Stefan Zweig
Uncle Fred flits by / P. G. Wodehouse
In the last coach / Leonhard Frank
Counterparts / James Joyce
The tragedy of Goupil / Louis Pergaud
Odour of chrysanthemums / D. H. Lawrence
The chink / Alexandre Arnoux
Haircut / Ring Lardner
Champion / Ring Lardner
A Balaam / Arnold Zweig
Old man Minick / Edna Ferber
The golden Beetle / Bruno Frank
The Catalan night / Paul Morand
Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken
The lovely day / Jacques de Lacretelle
On the farm / Hans Friedrich Blunck
The killers / Ernest Hemingway
The stranger / Katherine Mansfield
The house of mourning / Franz Werfel
A start in life / Ruth Suckow
The desert islander / Stella Benson
Big blonde / Dorothy Parker
Orphant Annie / Thyra Samter Winslow
Nuns at luncheon / Aldous Huxley
The rich boy / F. Scott Fitzgerald
The imposition / L.A.G. Strong
Turn about / William Faulkner
The doll / J. Kessel
Reduced / Elizabeth Bowen
Maria Concepcion / Katherine Anne Porter
The cherry feast / Ernst Glaeser
No more trouble forJedwick / Louis Paul
If you canʼt be good, be cautious / T.O. Beachcroft
The ball / Irene Nemirovsky
Kneel to the rising sun / Erskine Caldwell
The Nowaks / Christopher Isherwood
Convalescence / Kay Boyle
The station / H. E. Bates
Oklahoma race riot / Frances W. Prentice.
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