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Selected English Short Stories (First Series) (1914)

by Hugh Walker (Editor), Humphrey Milford (Editor)

Other authors: John Brown (Contributor), Mary Coleridge (Contributor), Hubert Crackenthorpe (Contributor), Charles Dickens (Contributor), Benjamin Disraeli (Contributor)14 more, Richard Garnett (Contributor), Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (Contributor), George Gissing (Contributor), Bret Harte (Contributor), Nathaniel Hawthorne (Contributor), Washington Irving (Contributor), Charles Lamb (Contributor), George Meredith (Contributor), William Morris (Contributor), Edgar Allen Poe (Contributor), Walter Scott (Contributor), Robert Louis Stevenson (Contributor), Anthony Trollope (Contributor), William Hale White (Contributor)

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Publisher: [London]: H. Milford, Oxford university press Publication date: 1914 Subjects: Short stories, English Short stories, American Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.… (more)
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Walker, HughEditorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Milford, HumphreyEditormain authorall editionsconfirmed
Brown, JohnContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Coleridge, MaryContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Crackenthorpe, HubertContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Dickens, CharlesContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Disraeli, BenjaminContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Garnett, RichardContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Gaskell, Elizabeth CleghornContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Gissing, GeorgeContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Harte, BretContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Hawthorne, NathanielContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Irving, WashingtonContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Lamb, CharlesContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Meredith, GeorgeContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Morris, WilliamContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Poe, Edgar AllenContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Scott, WalterContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Stevenson, Robert LouisContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Trollope, AnthonyContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
White, William HaleContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed

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Publisher: [London]: H. Milford, Oxford university press Publication date: 1914 Subjects: Short stories, English Short stories, American Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

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Contents; The two drovers / Sir Walter Scott -- Wandering Willie's tale / Sir Walter Scott -- The witch aunt / Charles Lamb -- Rip van Winkle / Washington Irving -- The snow-image / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The threefold destiny / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Dr Heidegger's experiment / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Howe's masquerade / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Ixion in Heaven / Benjamin Disraeli -- The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- The pit and the pendulum / Edgar Allan Poe -- Eleonora / Edgar Allan Poe -- The squire's story / Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell -- Rab and his friends / John Brown -- The seven poor travellers / Charles Dickens -- Malachi's cove / Anthony Trollope -- The punishment of Shahpesh, the Persian, on Khipil, the builder / George Meredith -- Mr Whittaker's retirement / William Hale White -- The story of the unknown church / William Morris -- The dumb oracle / Richard Garnett -- Miggles / Francis Bret Harte -- Tennessee's partner / Francis Bret Harte -- The Iliad of Sandy Bar / Francis Bret Harte -- Mliss / Francis Bret Harte -- Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Thrawn Janet / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Providence and the guitar / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Christopherson / George Gissing -- The king is dead, long live the king / Mary Coleridge -- Saint-Pé / Hubert Crackanthorpe
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