Representative Modern Short Stories

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited). Quarto in dark grey-green cloth; xiii pages, 1 leaf, 950p: frontispiece (facsimile); 24 cm. "List of representative modern short stories": pages 859-936 Very good(-); binding tight, leaves clean save for one small stain. Personal owner signature. Hardcover.

Contents: Rip Van Winkle /; Washington Irving --; Wandering Willie's tale /; Sir Walter Scott --; La grenadière /; Honoré de Balzac --; The ambitious guest /; Nathaniel Hawthorne --; The Venus of Ille /; Prosper Mérimée --; The overcoat /; Nicolai Vassilievitch Gogol --; The masque of the red death --; The purloined letter /; Edgar Allan Poe --; Arria Marcella /; Théophile Gautier --; The diamond lens /; Fitz-James O'Brien --; A struggle for life.; Thomas Bailey Aldrich --; A lear of the steppes /; Ivan Turgenev --; The madonna of the future /; Henry James --; The last class /; Alphonse Daudet --; The Sire de Malétroit's door /; Robert Louis Stevenson --; The star in the valley /; Charles Egbert Craddock --; The lady, or the tiger? /; Frank Richard Stockton --; The three strangers /; Thomas Hardy --; Happiness /; Guy de Maupassant --; The man who would be king /; Rudyard Kipling --; The two churches of 'Quawket /; Henry Cuyler Bunner.; By the morning boat /; Sarah Orne Jewett --; An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge /; Ambrose Bierce --; A New England nun /; Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman --; The red-headed league /; A. Conan Doyle --; The procurator of Judea /; Anatole France --; Désirée's baby /; Kate Chopin --; Under the knife /; Herbert George Wells --; Clavis /; Annie Trumbull Slosson --; The man and the mountain /; Bret Harte --; The little angel /; Leonid Nikolaevich Andreyev --; Comrades /; Maxim Gorky --; Spy rock /; Henry van Dyke --; The darling /; Anton Pavlovich Chekhov --; The furnished room /; O. Henry --; The case of Mr. Helmer /; Robert William Chambers --; The seed of McCoy /; Jack London --; Afterward /; Edith Wharton --; The great legend /; Melville Davisson Post --; The knight's move /; Katharine Fullerton Gerould --; The open window /; Charles Caldwell Dobie --; Fear /; Will Levington Comfort --; Fouled anchor /; Wilbur Daniel Steele --; Marriage á la mode /; Katherine Mansfield --; The last tenth /; Margaret Prescott Montague;Nouvelles. short stories. Short stories Short stories Short stories. Nouvelles.