This literary collection in 3 volumes offers over 70 of the greatest short stories ever written, featuring literature’s finest authors. CONTENTS HORATIO SPARKINS by Charles Dickens DAISY MILLER by Henry James THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND by H.G. Wells MISERY by Anton Chekhov THE SQUIRE’S STORY by Elizabeth Gaskell THE FALSE GEMS by Guy de Maupassant THE GREEN DOOR by O. Henry MASTER AND MAN by Leo Tolstoy BLUEBEARD’S GHOST by W.M. Thackeray THE HAPPY PRINCE by Oscar Wilde THE SUPERSTITIOUS MAN’S STORY by Thomas Hardy THE PRUSSIAN OFFICER by D.H. Lawrence THE GOLD-BUG by Edgar Allan Poe ARABY by James Joyce AMY FOSTER by Joseph Conrad THE HONEST THIEF by Fyodor Dostoyevsky TO BUILD A FIRE by Jack London THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG by Mark Twain A SOCIETY by Virginia Woolf METAMORPHOSIS by Franz Kafka IVAN MATVEYITCH by Anton Chekhov BABYLON REVISITED by F. Scott Fitzgerald
CONTENTS THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW by Washington Irving THE MONKEY’S PAW by W. W. Jacobs THE BLUE CROSS by G. K. Chesterton A TRAGEDY OF ERROR by Henry James AN OCCURENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE by Ambrose Bierce IMMENSEE by Theodor Storm THE COP AND THE ANTHEM by O. Henry THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING by Rudyard Kipling THE QUEEN OF SPADES by Alexander Pushkin PUBLIC LIFE OF MR. TULRUMBLE — ONCE MAYOR OF MUDFOG by Charles Dickens THE HOUSE OF COBWEBS by George Gissing LOTTA SCHMIDT by Anthony Trollope YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN by Nathaniel Hawthorne RAIN by W. Somerset Maugham THE UNKNOWN MASTERPIECE by Honoré de Balzac THE WIND BLOWS by Katherine Mansfield THE FLY by Katherine Mansfield THE CALL OF CTHULHU by H. P. Lovecraft THE OPEN BOAT by Stephen Crane THE SON’S VETO by Thomas Hardy THE DEAD by James Joyce
CONTENTS THE TELL-TALE HEART by Edgar Allan Poe THE ALTAR OF THE DEAD by Henry James RIP VAN WINKLE by Washington Irving THE BLOOMSBURY CHRISTENING by Charles Dickens THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY by Mark Twain A PASSION IN THE DESERT by Honoré de Balzac BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER by Herman Melville THE DISTRACTED PREACHER by Thomas Hardy THE RIDER ON THE WHITE HORSE by Theodor Storm OLALLA by Robert Louis Stevenson THE OPEN DOOR by Margaret Oliphant THE DIAMOND NECKLACE by Guy de Maupassant THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP by Bret Harte OH, WHISTLE AND I’LL COME TO YOU, MY LAD by M. R. James THE ROCKING-HORSE WINNER by D. H. Lawrence. THE COURTING OF DINAH SHADD by Rudyard Kipling THE LADY, OR THE TIGER? by Frank Stockton THE THREE STRANGERS by Thomas Hardy ALL GOLD CANYON by Jack London A SIMPLE SOUL by Gustave Flaubert LOVE AMONG THE HAYSTACKS by D. H. Lawrence THE DERELICT by William Hope Hodgson THE YELLOW WALLPAPER by Charlotte Perkins Gilman LAUTH by Frank Norris THE SECRET SHARER by Joseph Conrad THE UPPER BERTH by F. Marion Crawford I’M A FOOL by Sherwood Anderson THE DOOR IN THE WALL by H. G. Wells
