CLASSIC SHORT STORIES (3 VOLUMES) ENGLISH, RUSSIAN & AMERICAN
Written by Alexander Pushkin, Washington Irving, Mrs. Gaskell, et al
Illustrated by Rod Waters, Paul Gulla, Roman Pisarev
Published by Folio Society
in 1997
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CLASSIC SHORT STORIES (3 VOLUMES) ENGLISH, RUSSIAN & AMERICAN
Written by Alexander Pushkin, Washington Irving, Mrs. Gaskell, et al.
Illustrated by Rod Waters, Paul Gulla, Roman Pisarev.
Stock no. 1208978
1997.
Hardback.
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.
Front cover
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