Great short stories of the world; a collection of complete short stories chosen from the literatures of all periods and countries, by Barrett H. Clark and Maxim Lieber.
Great Britain. That brute Simmons / Arthur Morrison. Setna & the magic book / Anonymous -- Ancient Greece. Eumæus' tale / Homer -- The country mouse & the town mouse / Æsop -- King Rhampsinitus & the thief / Herodotus -- Phineus & the Harpies / Apollonius of Rhodes -- The robbers of Egypt / Heliodorus -- Ancient Rome. Horatius at the bridge / Livy -- Orpheus & Eurydice / Ovid -- The shipwreck of Simonides / Phaedrus -- The matron of Ephesus / Petronius -- The haunted house / Pliny the Younger -- The dream / Apuleius -- Biblical literature. The book of Ruth (Old Testament) -- The history of Susanna (the Apocrypha) -- The prodigal son ; The raising of Lazarus (New Testament) -- Rabbi Akiva ; The Jewish mother (the Talmud) -- Ancient India. The ass in the lion's skin (Jataka) -- The dove and the crow (Panchatantra) -- The story of Devadatta / Somadeva -- The jackal (Hitopadesa) -- Persia. Jamshid & Zuhak / Firdawsí -- The sailor & the pearl merchant / Anonymous -- Arabia. Khaled & Djaida / Al-Asma'I -- Abou Hassan the wag (Thousand and one nights) -- Great Britain. Grendel's raid (Beowulf) -- Esyllt and Sabrina / Geoffrey of Monmouth -- The humbling of Jovinian (Gesta Romanorum) -- Lludd & Llevelys (The Mabinogion) -- Launcelot's tourney / Sir Thomas Malory -- Roberto's tale / Robert Greene -- True relation of the apparition of one Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe -- The story of an heir / Joseph Addison -- The disabled soldier / Oliver Goldsmith -- The bridal of Janet Dalrymple / Sir Walter Scott -- The white trout / Samuel Lover -- The queer client / Charles Dickens -- A terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins -- Squire Petrick's lady / Thomas Hardy -- Thrawn Janet / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The selfish giant / Oscar Wilde -- Julia Cahill's curse / George Moore -- That brute Simmons / Arthur Morrison. Italy. Two miracles / Grazia Deledda. Siegfried and Kriemhild (The lay of the Nibelungs) -- The coming of Gandin / Gottfried von Strassburg -- Bruin the bear and Reynard the fox (Reynard the fox) -- Eulenspiegel and the merchant (Eulenspiegel) -- Doctor Faust and the usurer (The history of Dr. J. Faust) -- The sick wife / Christian Gellert -- Little Briar-Rose / the Brothers Grimm -- The story of Serapion / E.T.A. Hoffmann -- A legend of the dance / Gottfried Keller -- The fury / Paul Heyse -- The triple warning / Arthur Schnitzler -- A New-year's Eve confession / Hermann Sudermann -- France. The divided horsecloth / Bernier -- The priest and the mulberries / Anonymous -- The lay of the two lovers / Marie de France -- The pious lady and the gray friar / Marguerite de Navarre -- He who married a dumb wife ; The roast-meat seller / François Rabelais -- Little red riding-hood / Charles Perrault -- The four friends / Jean de Lafontaine -- Memnon the philosopher / Voltaire -- Lausus and Lydia / J.F. Marmontel -- The mysterious mansion / Honoré de Balzac -- Mateo Falcone / Prosper Mérimée -- The mummy's foot / Théophile Gautier -- The torture of hope / Villiers de L'Isle Adam -- The last lesson / Alphonse Daudet -- The fairy Amoureuse / Émile Zola -- The substitute / François Coppée -- Our lady's juggler / Anatole France -- The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- Italy. The bell of Atri (The hundred ancient tales) -- The falcon / Giovanni Boccaccio -- Galgano / Ser Giovanni -- The two ambassadors / Franco Sacchetti -- The Cavalier of Toledo / Masuccio (Guardato) -- Belphagor / Niccolo Macchiavelli -- A king in disguise / Matteo Bandello -- The friar of Novara / Agnolo Firenzuola -- The Greek merchant / Giovanbattista Giraldi Cinthio -- The Venetian silk-mercer / Carlo Gozzi -- Cavalleria rusticana -- Giovanni Verga -- The peasant's will / Antonio Fogazarro -- Mendicant melody / Edmondo de Amicis -- Lulu's triumph / Matilde Serao -- The hero / Gabriele d'Annunzio -- Two miracles / Grazia Deledda. Poland. Forebodings / Stefan Żeromski. The son and his friends / Juan Manuel -- How Lazaro served a bulero / Diego Hurtado de Mendoza -- Guzman and my lord Cardinal / Mateo Alemán -- Rinconete and Cortadillo / Miguel Cervantes -- The tall woman / Pedro Antonio de Alarcón -- Maese Perez, the organist / Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer -- Adios, Cordera! / Leopoldo Alas -- China. The story of Ming-Y ; A fickle widow (Marvelous tales) -- The virtuous daughter-in-law / P'u Sung-Ling -- Japan. The forty-seven rônins / Anonymous -- The pier / Mori Ogwai -- A domestic animal / Shimazaki Toson -- Holland. The higher the flight the lower the fall / Jacob Cats -- The story of Saïdjah / Eduard Douwes Dekker -- Grandfather's birthday present / Herman Heijermans -- Hungary. The invisible wound / Karoly Kisfaludi -- A ball / Maurus Jokai -- The green fly / Kalman Mikszath -- The silver hilt / Ferenc Molnar -- Russia. The snow storm / Alexander Pushkin -- St. John's Eve / Nikolai Gogol -- The district doctor / Ivan Turgenev -- The Christmas tree and the wedding / Feodor Dostoievsky -- The long exile / Leo Tolstoy -- The old bell-ringer / Vladimir Korolenko -- The signal / Vsevolod Garshin -- The bet / Anton Chekhov -- One autumn night / Maxim Gorky -- Silence / Leonid Andreyev -- Poland. The lighthouse keeper of Aspinwall / Henryk Sienkiewicz -- The human telegraph / Boleslav Prus -- Forebodings / Stefan Żeromski. Nicaragua. The deaf satyr / Rubén Darío. The Passover guest / Sholom Aleichem -- A picnic / S. Libin -- The Kaddish / Abraham Raisin -- Abandoned / Sholom Asch -- In the storm / David Pinski -- The Scandinavian countries. Iceland. Baldr's bale / Snorri Sturluson -- Regin's tale (Volsunga saga) -- Denmark. The shepherdess and the sweep / Hans Christian Andersen -- Henrik and Rosalie / Meyer Aron Goldschmidt -- Two worlds / Jens Peter Jacobsen -- Norway. The smith who could not get into hell / Peter Christen Asbjörnsen and Jörgen Moe -- The father / Björnstjerne Björnson -- Skobelef / Johan Bojer -- Sweden. Love & bread / August Strindberg -- The eclipse / Selma Lagerlöf -- The falcon / Per Hallström -- Belgium. The mysterious picture / Charles de Coster -- The massacre of the innocents / Maurice Maeterlinck -- The soul of Veere / Camille Lemonnier -- One night / Emile Verhaeren -- Jugoslavia. Croatian. The neighbor / Antun Gustav Matoš -- Slovenian. Children and old folk / Ivan Cankar -- Serbian. At the well / Laza K. Lazarevich -- Czechoslovakia. The vampire / Jan Neruda -- Foltýn's drum / Svatopluk Čech -- Modern Greece. The priest's tale / Demetrios Bikelas -- Roumania. The Easter torch / I.L. Caragiale -- What Vasile saw / Marie, Queen of Roumania -- Bulgaria. The commissioner's Christmas / Dimitr Ivanov -- South America. Costa Rica. Chivalry / Ricardo Fernández-García -- Brazil. The attendant's confession / J.M. Machado de Assis -- Peru. The legend of Pygmalion / Ventura García-Calderón -- Venezuela. Creole democracy / Rufíno Blanco-Fombóna -- Nicaragua. The deaf satyr / Rubén Darío. United States. A brown woman / James Branch Cabell. Mrs. Bullfrog / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Journalism in Tennessee / Mark Twain -- The man and the snake / Ambrose Bierce -- The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte -- The story in it / Henry James -- King Solomon of Kentucky / James Lane Allen -- Miss Tempy's watchers / Sarah Orne Jewett -- A letter and a paragraph / Henry Cuyler Bunner -- Supply and demand / O. Henry -- A dark-brown dog / Stephen Crane -- The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser -- Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson -- A Wagner matinée / Willa Cather -- A brown woman / James Branch Cabell.
Summary:
177 short stories.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1414884
Locations:
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
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