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Modern masterpieces of short prose fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Waite, Alice Vinton
Other Authors: Taylor, Edith Mendall, 1874-, Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883, Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897, Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937, Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920, Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908, Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850, Mérimée, Prosper, 1803-1870, Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864, Hale, Edward Everett, Sr., 1822-1909, Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910, Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893, Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894, James, Henry, 1843-1916, Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936, Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : D. Appleton, 1911.
Subjects:
Short stories.
Table of Contents:
  • A living relic, by I. Turgenev
  • The death of the Dauphin, by A. Daudet
  • Leeby and Jamie, by J. Barrie
  • The hunter, by Olive Schreiner
  • Uncle Remus. His songs and his sayings, by J. C. Harris
  • An episode under the terror, by H. de Balzac
  • The Venus of Ille, by P. Mérimée
  • The purloined letter, by E. A. Poe
  • Rappaccini's daughter, by N. Hawthorne
  • The man without a country, by E. E. Hale
  • Master and man, by L. Tolstoi
  • The piece of string, by G. de Maupassant
  • The merry men, by R. L. Stevenson
  • Brooksmith, by H. James
  • The man who would be king, by R. Kipling
  • The doll's house, by H. Ibsen.