100 Great Short Stories: Selections from Poe, London, Twain, Melville, Kipling, Dickens, Joyce and Many More Paperback - 2015
by James Daley (Editor)
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This treasury of one hundred tales offers students and other readers of short fiction a splendid selection of stories by masters of the form. Contributors from around the world include Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, Anton Chekhov, Mark Twain, Saki, Luigi Pirandello, Kate Chopin, and Ring Lardner.
The stories, which are arranged chronologically, begin with tales by Daniel Defoe ("The Apparition of Mrs. Veal," 1705), Benjamin Franklin ("Alice Addertongue," 1732), and Washington Irving ("The Devil and Tom Walker," 1824). Highlights from the nineteenth century include Ivan Turgenev's "The District Doctor" (1852), Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron" (1886), Thomas Hardy's "Squire Petrick's Lady" (1891), and Rudyard Kipling's "Wee Willie Winkie" (1899). From the twentieth century come James Joyce's "Araby" (1914), Franz Kafka's "The Judgment" (1916), Virginia Woolf's "The Mark on the Wall" (1921), "The Broken Boot" (1923) by John Galsworthy, and many others.
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- Title 100 Great Short Stories: Selections from Poe, London, Twain, Melville, Kipling, Dickens, Joyce and Many More
- Author James Daley (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Paperback
- Pages 768
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dover Publications
- Date 2015-03
- ISBN 9780486790213 / 0486790215
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5 x 1.4 in (20.07 x 12.70 x 3.56 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Short stories, FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014034831
- Dewey Decimal Code 808.831
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