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CLASSIC SHORT STORIES (3 VOLUMES) ENGLISH, RUSSIAN & AMERICAN

by Alexander Pushkin; Washington Irving; Mrs. Gaskell; et al

Illustrated by Rod Waters; Paul Gulla; Roman Pisarev

Published by Folio Society. 1997

Very good condition. Three volume set, each volume bound in different colour cloth. B/w illustrations.

Second printing. English Short Stories has slightly faded spine and light bleaching to spine (not immediately obvious). Else a lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase with some shelf-scuffing.

Stock no. 1208978

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Contents

  • ENGLISH SHORT STORIES
  • Mrs Gaskell (1810-65) The Manchester Marriage
  • Charles Dickens (1812-70) Tuggses at Ramsgate
  • Anthony Trollope (1815-82) The Man Who Kept his Money in a Box
  • Wilkie Collins (1824-89) The Lady of Glenwith Grange
  • George |Meredith (1828-1909) The Case of General Ople and Lady Camper
  • Mrs Molesworth (1839-1921) The Man with the Cough
  • Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) The Three Strangers
  • R. L. Stevenson (1850-94) Markheim
  • George Gissing (1857 -1903) The Foolish Virgin
  • Joseph Conrad (1857- 1924) The Secret Sharer
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1359-1930) How the Brigadier Slew the Fox
  • M. R. James (1862-1936) 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll com to You, My Lad'
  • W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943) Bill's Paper Chase
  • Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Beyond the Pale
  • E. W. Hornung (1866-1921) Gentlemen and Players
  • Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) His Worship the Goosedriver
  • 'Saki' (1870-1916) The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh
  • P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1930) The Border Line
  • D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
  • Sylvain Townsend Warner (1893-1978) A Pair of Duelling Pistols
  • V. S. Pritchett (1900-97) Eleven o'clock
  • Angus Wilson (1913-91) Fresh Air Fiend
  • Muriel Spark (1918- ) A Member of the Family
  • RUSSION SHORT STORIES
  • Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) The Queen of Spades (Translated by Gillon R. Aitken)
  • Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) The Overcoat (Translated by Ronald Wilks)
  • Mikhail Lermontov (1814-41) Taman (Translated by Paul Foote)
  • Ivan Turgenev (1818-83) The Song of Triumphant Love (Translated by Richard freeborn)
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81) The Honest Thief (Translated by David Magarshack)
  • N. Shchedrin (Mikhail Saltykov) (1826-89) The Wild Squire (Translated by Vera Volkhovsky)
  • Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) The Raid (Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude)
  • Nikolai Leskov (1831-95) Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Translated by David Magarshack)
  • Vladimir Korolenko (1853-1921) The Murmuring Forest (Translated by R. S. Townsend)
  • Vsevolod Garshin (1855-88) The Red Flower (Translated by Liv Tudge)
  • Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) The Kiss (Translated by Ronald Wilks)
  • Maxim Gorky (1868-1904) Twenty-six Men and a Girl (Translated by Emily Jakowleff and Dora B. Montefiore)
  • Ivan Bunin (1870-1953) The Gentleman from San Francisco (Translated by David Richards)
  • Alexander Grin (1880-1932) The Death of Romelink (Translated by Nicholas Luker)
  • Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937) The Cave (Translated by Mirra Ginsburg)
  • Boris Pasternak (1890-1940) The Murderer (Translated by Michael Glenny)
  • Isaac Babel (1894-?1941) How It Was Done in Odessa (Translated by Avrahm Yarmolinsky)
  • Mikhail Zoshchencko (1895-1958) Lyalka Fifty (Translated by Maria Gordon and Hugh McLean)
  • Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) A Russian Beauty (Translated by Simon Karlinsky)
  • Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918- ) Matryona's Home (Translated by H. T. Willetts)
  • AMERICAN SHORT STORIES
  • Washington Irving (1783-1859) Rip Van Winkle
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) Young Goodman Brown
  • Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) The Pit and the Pendulum
  • Herman Melville (1819-91) Bartleby the Scrivener
  • Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) The Man Without a Country
  • Mark Twain (1835-1910) The £1,000,000 Bank-Note
  • Bret Harte (1836-1902) The Outcasts of Poker Flat
  • Ambrose Bierce (1842-?1914) A Horseman in the Sky
  • Henry James (1843-1916) The Beast in the Jungle
  • Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) Marsh Rosemary
  • Kate Chopin (1851-1904) Desiree's Baby
  • Mary E Wilkins (1852-1930) A New England Nun
  • Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932) The Wife of his Youth
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) The Yellow Wallpaper
  • Edith Wharton (1862-1937) The Other Two
  • O. Henry (1862-1910) A Municipal Report
  • Stephen Crane (1871-1900) The Bride Comes to yellow Sky
  • Willa Cather (1876-1941) Hands
  • Jack London (1876-1916) Batard
  • Damon Runyon (1884-1946) The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown
  • Ring Lardner (1885-1933) Some Like Them Cold
  • Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) Glory in the Daytime
  • James Thurber (1894-1961) A Ride with Olympy
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) An Alcoholic Case
  • William Faulkner (1897-1962) Barn Burning
  • Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) The Killers
  • John Steinbeck (1902-1968) The Snake

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