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Sad, funny, chilling, mysterious, romantic and always intriguing, these small masterpieces from teh pens not only of literary legends but also of accomplished lesser-known writers of the past are guaranteed to capture the imagination, engage the emotions, linger in the memory and whet the appetite for more.

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Language
English
Pages
320

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Cover of: Romance
Romance: short stories by great writers
2012, Worth Pocket Companions
Paperback in English
Cover of: Romance
Romance: a novel
1920, Doubleday Page
in English

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Table of Contents

Love in the night / F. Scott Fitzgerald
An inverted love story / W.S. Gilbert
The long run / Edith Wharton
Olalla / Robert Louis Stevenson
The box-office girl / Arnold Bennett
A dill pickle / Katherine Mansfield
The Eskimo Maiden's romance / Mark Twain
The assignation / Edgar Allan Poe
The kiss / Kate Chopin
The open window / Saki (H.H. Munro)
Amy foster / Joseph Conrad
The bronckburst divorce case / Rudyard Kipling
The lost blend / O. Henry
Mr Lismore and the widow / Wilkie Collins
The amethyst comb / Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
The boarding house / James Joyce
The scrupulous father / George Gissing
The lovely lady / D.H. Lawrence.

Edition Notes

Published in
Cambridge
Series
Worth pocket companions
Copyright Date
2012

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.08508

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
320 pages
Number of pages
320

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31882168M
Internet Archive
romanceshortstor0000gray
ISBN 10
184931070X
ISBN 13
9781849310703
OCLC/WorldCat
820531334, 864812025, 1245777374
Goodreads
59346762

Work Description

Love in the night / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
An inverted love story / W.S. Gilbert --
The long run / Edith Wharton --
Olalla / Robert Louis Stevenson --
The box-office girl / Arnold Bennett --
A dill pickle / Katherine Mansfield --
The Eskimo Maiden's romance / Mark Twain --
Assignation / Edgar Allan Poe --
The kiss / Kate Chopin --
The open window / Saki (H.H. Munro) --
Amy foster / Joseph Conrad --
The bronckburst divorce case / Rudyard Kipling --
The lost blend / O. Henry --
Mr Lismore and the widow / Wilkie Collins --
The amethyst comb / Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman --
The boarding house / James Joyce --
The scrupulous father / George Gissing --
The lovely lady / D.H. Lawrence.

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