Selections from the world's greatest short stories; illustrative of the history of short story writing;

Patient Griselda, from the "Decameron" of Boccaccio. Rewritten in English by the editor.--Aladdin, or The wonderful lamp, from "The Arabian nights".--Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving.--A passion in the desert, by Honoré de Balzac. Rewritten in English by the editor.--A child's dream of a star, by Charles Dickens.--A Christmas carol, by Charles Dickens.--A princess's tragedy, from "Barry Lyndon", by W.M. Thackeray.--The gold-bug, by Edgar Allan Poe.--The great stone face, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.--The necklace, and The string, by Guy de Maupassant. Rewritten in English by the editor.--The man who would be king, by Ruyard Kipling.--How Gavin Birse put it to Mag Lownie, from "A window in Thrums", by J.M. Barrie.--On the stairs, from "Tales of mean streets", by Arthur Morrison.

Best short stories /

Mode of access: Internet.

An introduction to the Hindustani language : comprising a grammar, and a vocabulary, English and Hindustani : also short stories and dialogues, short stories in Persian and Nagari characters ... and military words of command, Nagari and English /

Mode of access: Internet.

Commonplace, and other short stories.

Commonplace.--The lost Titian.--Nick.--Hero.--Vanna's twins.--A safe investment.--Pros and cons.--The waves of this troublesome world.

The Best British short stories.

Includes Yearbook of the British and Irish short story.

Prize stories ... The O. Henry awards ...

Stories for 1919-1927 were "chosen by the Society of Arts and Sciences."

The children's book; a collection of short stories and poems. A mormon book for Mormon Children.

Mode of access: Internet.

Six trees; short stories,

Mode of access: Internet.

Short stories,

Mode of access: Internet.

A selection from the world's greatest short stories, illustrative of the history of short story writing.

Mode of access: Internet.

Cathlamet on the Columbia; recollections of the Indian people and short stories of early pioneer days in the valley of the lower Columbia River,

Mode of access: Internet.

A chosen few; short stories,

A tale of negative gravity.--Asaph.--His wife's deceased sister.--The lady,or the tiger?--The remarkable wreck of the Thomas Hyke.--Old Pipes and the dryad.--The transferred ghost.--The philosophy of relative existences.--A piece of red calico.

In the morning glow; short stories

Grandfather.--Grandmother.--While Aunt Jane played.--Little sister.--Our yard.--The toy grenadier.--Father.--Mother.

The story-life of Napoleon; hundreds of short stories from the greatest variety of sources reconciled and fitted together in a complete and continuous biography,

Mode of access: Internet.

The American authors of the West.

Mode of access: Internet.