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

Mode of access: Internet.

The Best short stories of ... and the yearbook of the American short story.

Published: New York : Dodd, Mead, 1926-1932.

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.

Cattle brands : a collection of western camp-fire stories /

"Published March 1906"--Verso of t.p.

A forest orchid and other stories /

A forest orchid.--'Mandy's organ.--The Lord's prayer drinkin' glass.--Euphemy.--The pity of it.--Belindy's one beau.--Mis' Bunnels's funeral.--A passion-flower of the West.--The Arnspiker chickens.--The light that came to Abraham.

From the land of the snow pearls; tales from Puget Sound ...

"First published under the title of 'The flower that grew in the sand.' To the present ediiton two stories have been added."

Waldo Trench, and others; stories of Americans in Italy,

"Several of the stories composing this volume have appeared in Scribner's magazine."--Note.

The stories of H. C. Bunner.

Love in old cloathes.--A letter and a paragraph.--"As one having authority."--Crazy wife's ship.--French for a fortnight.--The red silk handkerchief.--Our aromatic uncle.--The Zadoc Pine labor union.--Natural selection.--Casperl.--A second-hand story.--Mrs. Tom's spree.--Squire Five-Fathom.

A black prince, and other stories /

Miss B-- -- Burnt fingers -- Sergeant Spelter -- "Who was Mrs. Dubersome?" -- A night in an old fort -- The jungle fee -- Mr. Magnus -- The rishi and the sacred diamond -- A black prince -- Shameful behaviour -- Our station -- How we jubilated at Sandriri.

Starlight ranch, and other stories of army life on the frontier.

Starlight ranch.--Well won; or, From the plains to "The Point."--From "The Point" to the plains.--The worst man in the troop.--Van.

The reputation of George Saxon : and other stories.

The reputation of George Saxon.--The artist.--The bronze caster.--Exlex.--A noble German.--The troubles of Johann Eckert.--The plot of his story.--On Bear Creek.--The captain's wife.--Sam Jackson's snake.--Francke and party.

A gray dream, and other stories of New England life,

Reprinted in part from various periodicals.

Brothers all; more stories of Dutch peasant life

Printed in Great Britain.

The white hecatomb, and other stories /

The white hecatomb -- The vengeance of the Dogolwana -- Gquma, or, The white waif -- The tramp's tragedy -- The seed of the church -- Little Tobè -- The Imishologu -- The madness of Gweva -- The love charm -- Derelicts -- The return of Sobèdè -- The quick and the dead -- Aiala.

Captain Dreams : and other stories /;

Captain Dreams, by Capt. C. King.--The ebb-tide, by Lieut. A.H. Sydenham.--White lilies, by A.K. Hamilton.--A strange wound, by Lieut. W.H. Hamilton.--The story of Alcatraz, by Lieut. A.H. Sydenham.--The other fellow, by R. Monckton-Dene.--Buttons, by Captain J.G. Leefe.