Research Catalog

Title

Tellers of tales : 100 short stories from the United States, England, France, Russia and Germany / selected and with an introduction by W. Somerset Maugham.

Publication

• New York : Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1939.
• Garden City, N.Y. : Printed at The Country Life Press

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Details

Additional Authors

• Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965
• Doubleday, Doran & Company, publisher.
• Country Life Press, printer.

Description

xxxix pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 1526 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Anthology of classic literary short stories from authors including; Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Balzac, Hardy, Stevenson, Maupassant, Wilde, Kipling, Romanof, Hemingway, Huxley, and more.

Subject

• Short stories
• short stories
• Short stories

Genre/Form

• Short stories.
• short stories.
• Short stories
• Nouvelles.

Note

• "First edition."

Contents

• The two drovers / Sir Walter Scott -- Rip Van Winkle ; The stout gentleman / Washington Irving -- La grande Bretêche / Honoré de Balzac -- The gray champion / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The crimson curtain / Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly -- The gold-bug / Edgar Allan Poe -- A simple heart / Gustave Flaubert -- Krambambuli / Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach -- The outcasts of Poker Flat / Francis Bret Harte -- Olympe and Henriette / Villiers de l'Isle Adam -- The three strangers / Thomas Hardy -- The jolly corner / Henry James -- The procurator of Judæa / Anatole France -- Youth / Karl Emil Franzos -- Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The necklace ; The legacy / Guy de Maupassant -- Useless mouths / Octave Mirbeau -- The happy prince / Oscar Wilde -- The adventure of the Bruce-Partington plans / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Typhoon / Joseph Conrad -- The fate of the baron / Arthur Schnitzler.
• The whirligig of life / O. Henry -- Without visible means / Arthur Morrison -- The stricken doe / Pierre Mille -- The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs -- The coach / Violet Hunt -- The last visit / Tristan Bernard -- The man who would be king ; Without benefit of clergy / Rudyard Kipling -- Papago wedding / Mary Austin -- Uncle Franz / Ludwig Thoma -- The door in the wall / H.G. Wells -- An experiment in misery / Stephen Crane -- Tobermory / Saki -- To build a fire / Jack London -- The death of Iván Ilých / Leo Tolstoy -- The toupee artist / Nicolai Lyeskov -- Mouzhiks / Anton Chekhov -- Twenty-six and one / Maxim Gorky -- Sunstroke / Ivan Bunin -- Captain Ribnikov / Alexander Kuprin -- Hydromel / Vassili Iretsky -- Without cherry blossom / Pantaleimon Romanof -- In the town of Berdichev / Vassili Grossman -- Hunger / Alexander Neweroff -- Romance / Vera Inber -- Earth on the hands / Boris Pilnjak.
• A letter / Isaac Babel -- The child / Vsevolod Ivanov -- The customer / Georgy Peskov -- The knives / Valentine Katayev -- Pippo Spano / Heinrich Mann -- Old Rogaum and his Theresa / Theodore Dreiser -- A.V. Laider / Max Beerbohm -- The amulet / Jacob Wassermann -- Cavalry patrol / Hugo von Hofmannsthal -- Seeds ; The other woman / Sherwood Anderson -- Early sorrow / Thomas Mann -- Mr. and Mrs. Abbey's difficulties / E.M. Forster -- The invisible collection / Stefan Zweig -- Uncle Fred flits by / P.G. Wodehouse -- In the last coach / Leonhard Frank -- Counterparts / James Joyce -- The tragedy of Goupil / Louis Pergaud -- Odour of chrysanthemums / D.H. Lawrence -- The chink / Alexandre Arnoux -- Haircut ; Champion / Ring Lardner -- A balaam / Arnold Zweig -- Old Man Minick / Edna Ferber -- The golden beetle / Bruno Frank -- The Catalan night / Paul Morand.
• Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken -- The lovely day / Jacques de Lacretelle -- On the farm / Hans Friedrich Blunck -- The killers / Ernest Hemingway -- The stranger / Katherine Mansfield -- The house of mourning / Franz Werfel -- A start in life / Ruth Suckow -- The desert islander / Stella Benson -- Big blonde / Dorothy Parker -- Orphant Annie / Thyra Samter Winslow -- Nuns at luncheon / Aldous Huxley -- The rich boy / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The imposition / L.A.G. Strong -- Turn about / William Faulkner -- The doll / J. Kessel -- Reduced / Elizabeth Bowen -- María Concepción / Katherine Anne Porter -- The cherry feast / Ernst Glaeser -- No more trouble for Jedwick / Louis Paul -- If you can't be good, be cautious / T.O. Beachcroft -- The ball / Irène Némirovsky -- Kneel to the rising sun / Erskine Caldwell -- The Nowaks / Christopher Isherwood -- Convalescence / Kay Boyle -- The station / H.E. Bates -- Oklahoma race riot / Frances W. Prentice.

LCCN

39020438

OCLC

• ocm00296782
• 296782
• SCSB-2110127

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library