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Last edited by mheiman
November 27, 2022 | History

A COLLECTION FOR USE IN HIGH SCHOOLS, COM- PILED AND EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, AND BIOGRAPHIES OF THE AUTHORS

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
291

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Cover of: A Book of Short Stories
A Book of Short Stories
1919, D. Appleton and Company
Hardcover in English

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Table of Contents

Legend of the Moor's legacy / Washington Irving
The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe
Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte
The last lesson / Alphonse Daudet
The Sire de Male troit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson
The necklace / Guy de Maupassant
A gala dress / Mary Wilkins Freeman
Under the lion's paw / Hamlin Garland
On the stairs / Arthur Morrison
A blackjack bargainer / "O. Henry" (William Sydney Porter)
The well / William Wydmark Jacobs
The comforter / Elizabeth Jordan
"Molly McGuire, fourteen" / Frederick Stuart Greene.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographies.
Frontispiece, photographic plates facing p. 96, 131, 179 and 202, and illustrations on p. 51, 147 and 193, some signed by Jack Flanagan.

Published in
New York, London
Copyright Date
1918

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ1.W67 B

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xiii, [1], 291, [5] p. (first 2 p. and last 5 p. blank), [5] leaves of plates :
Number of pages
291

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6611267M
Internet Archive
bookofshortstori00flan
LCCN
18019726
OCLC/WorldCat
1533723
Goodreads
58855854

Work Description

Legend of the Moor's legacy / Washington Irving
Cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe
Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte
The last lesson / Alphonse Daudet
The Sire de Male troit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson
The necklace / Guy de Maupassant
A gala dress / Mary Wilkins Freeman
Under the lion's paw / Hamlin Garland
On the stairs / Arthur Morrison
A blackjack bargainer / "O. Henry" (William Sydney Porter)
The well / William Wydmark Jacobs
The comforter / Elizabeth Jordan
"Molly McGuire, fourteen" / Frederick Stuart Greene.

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November 27, 2022 Edited by mheiman merge authors
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