Stories to remember,

Stories to remember,

Includes, in addition to thirty-three short stories and excerpts from novels, the following short novels in entirety. "The General's ring", by S. Lagerlof, "Portrait of Jennie", by R. Nathan, "Voice of Bugle Ann", by M. Kantor, "Bridge of San Luis Rey", b...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Costain, Thomas B. (Thomas Bertram), 1885-1965 (Editor), Beecroft, John (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1956.
Subjects:
Fiction > Collections.
Nouvelles et contes > Anthologies.
Fiction.
Collections.
Table of Contents:
  • v. 1. The general's ring / Selma Lagerlöf
  • Mowgli's brothers / Rudyard Kipling
  • The gift of the Magi / O. Henry
  • Lord Mountdrago / W. Somerset Maugham
  • The friendly persuasion. Music on the Muscatatuck ; The pacing goose / Jessamyn West
  • The birds / Daphne du Maurier
  • The queen's necklace. The man who lived four thousand years / Alexandre Dumas
  • The pope's mule / Alphonse Daudet
  • The story of the late Mr. Elvesham / H.G. Wells
  • The blue cross / G.K. Chesterton
  • Portrait of Jennie / Robert Nathan
  • La grande bretêche / Honoré de Balzac
  • Love's conundrum / Anthony Hope
  • The great stone face / Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Germelshausen / Friedrich Gerstäcker
  • David Copperfield. I am born / Charles Dickens
  • The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving
  • The age of miracles / Melville Davisson Post
  • The long rifle / Stewart Edward White
  • The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe
  • The voice of Bugle Ann / MacKinlay Kantor
  • v. 2. The bridge of San Luis Rey / Thornton Wilder
  • Basquerie / Eleanor Mercein Kelly
  • Judith / A.E. Coppard
  • A mother in Mannville / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  • Kerfol / Edith Wharton
  • The last leaf / O. Henry
  • The bloodhound / Arthur Train
  • What the old man does is always right / Hans Christian Andersen
  • The sea of grass / Conrad Richter
  • The Sire de Malétroit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The necklace / Guy de Maupassant
  • By the waters of Babylon / Stephen Vincent Benét
  • A.V. Laider / Max Beerbohm
  • The pillar of fire / Percival Wilde
  • The man with the broken ear. The strange will / Edmond About
  • Wuthering Heights. The hand at the window / Emily Brontë
  • National Velvet / Enid Bagnold.