Russian Short Stories; American Short Stories; English Short Stories [Three Volumes in Splicase]

London: Folio Society, 1997. First thus. Three quarto volumes in slipcase: xviii, 386 pages; [two others about same] illustrations; 24 cm About fine to fine(-), with extremely faint soiling to spines, in a near fine(-) to vg(+) gently rubbed slip case. See photos. Weighs 7lb before packing. Hardcover.

Contents of Russian Short Stories: Introduction. The Queen of Spades / Alexander Puskin. The Overcoat / Nikolai Gogol. Taman / Mikhail Lermontov. The Song of Triumphant Love / Ivan Turgenev. The Honest Thief / Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Wild Squire / N. Shchedrin. The Raid / Leo Tolstoy. Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District / Nikolai Leskov. The Murmuring Forest / Vladimir Korolenko. The Red Flower / Vsevolod Garshin. The Kiss / Anton Chekhov. Twenty-Six Men and a Girl / Maxim Gorky. The Gentleman from San Francisco / Ivan Bunin. The Death of Romelink / Alexander Grin. The Cave / Yevgeny Zamyaatin. Aerial Ways / Boris Pasternak. The Murderer / Mikhail Bulgakov. How It Was Done in Odessa / Isaac Babel. Lyalka Fifty / Mikhail Zoshchenko. A Russian Beauty / Vladimir Nabokov. Matryona’s Home / Alexander Solzhenitsyn. || Content of American Short Stories: Introduction / Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving. Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Pit and the Pendulum / Edgar Allan Poe. Bartleby the Scrivener / Herman Melville. The Man Without a Country / Edward Everett Hale. The 1,000,000 Bank-Note / Mark Twain. The Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte. A Horseman in the Sky / Ambrose Bierce. The Beast in the Jungle / Henry James. Marsh Rosemary / Sarah Orne Jewett. Desiree’s Baby / Kate Chopin. A New England Nun / Mary E. Wilkins. The Wife of His Youth / Charles Chestnutt. The Yellow Wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Other Two / Edith Wharton. A Municipal Report / O. Henry. The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky / Stephan Crane. The Enchanted Bluff / Willa Cather. Hands / Sherwood Anderson. Batard / Jack London. The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown / Damon Runyon. Some Like Them Cold / Ring Lardner. Glory in the Daytime / Dorothy Parker. A Ride with Olymphy / James Thurber. An Alcoholic Case / F. Scott Fitzgerald. Barn Burning / William Faulkner. The Killers / Ernest Hemingway. The Snake / John Steinbeck. || Contents of English: Introduction / David Hughes. The Manchester Marriage / Mrs Gaskell. The Tuggses at Ramsgate / Charles Dickens. The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box / Anthony Trollope. The Lady of Glenwith Grange / Wilkie Collins. The Case of General Ople and Lady Camper / George Meredith. The Man with the Cough / Mrs Molesworth. The Three Stranges / Thomas Hardy. Markheim / R.L. Stevenson. The Foolish Virgin / George Gissing. The Secret Sharer / Joseph Conrad. How the Brigadier Slew the Fox / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad / M.R. James. Bill’s Paper Chase / W.W. Jacobs. Beyond the Pale / Rudyard Kipling. Gentleman and Players / E.W. Hornung. His Worship the Goosedriver / Arnold Bennett. The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh / ‘Saki’. The Custody of the Pumpkin / P.G. Wodehouse. The Border Line / P.G. Wodehouse. A Pair of Duelling Pistols / Sylvia Townsend Warner. Eleven O’Clock / V.S. Pritchett. Fresh Air Friend / Angus Wilson. A Member of the Family / Muriel Spark.If you like, I can now merge the entire thing into one clean paragraph with proper punctuation for you. Would you like me to do that?// **Somewhat heavy item. 7lbs + packing. Additional shipping fees may be needed for expedited or international orders. Please inquire**