International Short Stories is a three-volume anthology of outstanding English, American, and French short stories and novellae of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries.[1] It was published by P.F. Collier & Son in 1910. The first volume features celebrated short fiction from the United States, the second volume of England, and the third of France (translated into English).[2] The three-volume series was compiled by Frances J. Reynolds, and edited by William Patten.
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Editor | William Patten |
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Language | English |
Series | International Short Stories |
Genre | historical fiction, melodrama, philosophical fiction, picaresque, sea story, tragedy, detective fiction, mystery fiction, horror fiction, science fiction, et al. |
Publisher | P.F. Collier & Son |
Publication date | 1910 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | |
Pages | 1,146 |
OCLC | 1187763 |
LC Class | PZ1.P277 I |
Contents
Volume I: American
- "The Prophetic Pictures" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving
- "The Gold-Bug" by Edgar Allan Poe
- "Corporal Flint's Murder" by James Fenimore Cooper
- "Uncle Jim and Uncle Billy" by Bret Harte
- "The Notary of Perigueux" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- "The Widow's Cruise" by Frank R. Stockton
- "The Count and the Wedding Guest" by O. Henry
- "Miss Tooker's Wedding Gift" by John Kendrick Bangs
- "The Fable of the Two Mandolin Players and the Willing Performer" by George Ade
- "The Fable of the Preacher Who Flew His Kite, But Not Because He Wished to Do So" by George Ade
- "The Shadows on the Wall" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- "Major Perdue's Bargain" by Joel Chandler Harris
- "A Kentucky Cinderella" by Francis Hopkinson Smith
- "By the Waters of Paradise" by Francis Marion Crawford
- "A Memorable Night" by Anna Katharine Green
- "The Man from Red Dog" by Alfred Henry Lewis
- "Jean Michaud's Little Ship" by Charles G.D. Roberts
- "Those Old Lunes!" by William Gilmore Simms
- "The Chiropodist" by Bayard Taylor
- "Mr. Dooley on Corporal Punishment" by Finley Peter Dunne
- "Over a Wood Fire" by Ik Marvel
Volume II: English
- "The Two Drovers" by Sir Walter Scott
- "Mr. Deuceace" by William Makepeace Thackeray
- "The Brothers" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- "Doctor Manette's Manuscript" by Charles Dickens
- "The Caldron of Oil" by Wilkie Collins
- "The Burial of the Tithe" by Samuel Lover
- "The Knightsbridge Mystery" by Charles Reade
- "The Courting of Dinah Shadd" by Rudyard Kipling
- "The Sire de Maletroit's Door" by Robert Louis Stevenson
- "The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange" by Arthur Conan Doyle
- "A Change of Treatment" by W. W. Jacobs
- "The Stickit Minister" by Samuel Rutherford Crockett
- "The Lammas Preaching" by Samuel Rutherford Crockett
- "An Undergraduate's Aunt" by F. Anstey
- "The Silhouettes" by Arthur Quiller-Couch
- "My Brother Henry" by J. M. Barrie
- "Gilray's Flower Pot" by J. M. Barrie
- "Mr. O'Leary's Second Love" by Charles Lever
- "The Indifference of the Miller of Hofbau" by Anthony Hope Hawkins
- "The Stolen Body" by H. G. Wells
- "The Lazarette of the 'Huntress'" by William Clark Russell
- "The Great Triangular Duel" by Frederick Marryat
- "Three Thimbles and a Pea" by George Borrow
Volume III: French
- "A Piece of Bread" by François Coppée
- "The Elixir of Life" by Honoré de Balzac
- "The Age for Love" by Paul Bourget
- "Mateo Falcone" by Prosper Mérimée
- "The Mirror" by Catulle Mendès
- "My Nephew Joseph" by Ludovic Halévy
- "A Forest Betrothal" by Erckmann-Chatrian
- Zadig the Babylonian by Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
- "Abandoned" by Guy de Maupassant
- "The Guilty Secret" by Charles Paul de Kock
- "Jean Monette" by Eugène François Vidocq
- "Solange" by Alexandre Dumas
- "The Birds in the Letter-box" by René Bazin
- "Jean Gourdon's Four Days" by Émile Zola
- "Baron de Trenck" by Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert
- "The Passage of the Red Sea" by Henry Murger
- "The Woman and the Cat" by Marcel Prévost
- "Gil Blas and Dr. Sangrado" by Alain-René Lesage
- "A Fight with a Cannon" by Victor Hugo
- "Tonton" by Adolphe Chenevière
- "The Last Lesson" by Alphonse Daudet
- "Croisilles" by Alfred de Musset
- "The Vase of Clay" by Jean Aicard
See also
References
Further reading
- Jessup, Alexander, ed. (1923). Representative American Short Stories. Boston: Allyn & Bacon. p. xxii. OCLC 46875395.
External links
Project Gutenberg
Internet Archive
- International Short Stories, Volume I: American at the Internet Archive
- International Short Stories, Volume II: English at the Internet Archive
- International Short Stories, Volume III: French at the Internet Archive
WorldCat
- International Short Stories, Volume I: American in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- International Short Stories, Volume II: English in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- International Short Stories, Volume III: French in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Others
International Short Stories public domain audiobook at LibriVox (all 3 volumes)
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