International Short Stories
Vol. I–III
EditorWilliam Patten
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesInternational Short Stories
Genrehistorical fiction, melodrama, philosophical fiction, picaresque, sea story, tragedy, detective fiction, mystery fiction, horror fiction, science fiction, et al.
PublisherP.F. Collier & Son
Publication date
1910
Media typePrint
Pages1,146
OCLC1187763
LC ClassPZ1.P277 I

International Short Stories is a three-volume anthology of outstanding English, American, and French short stories and novellae of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries.[1] It was published by P.F. Collier & Son in 1910. The first volume features celebrated short fiction from the United States, the second volume of England, and the third of France (translated into English).[2] The three-volume series was compiled by Frances J. Reynolds, and edited by William Patten.

Contents

Volume I: American

  1. "The Prophetic Pictures" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  2. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving
  3. "The Gold-Bug" by Edgar Allan Poe
  4. "Corporal Flint's Murder" by James Fenimore Cooper
  5. "Uncle Jim and Uncle Billy" by Bret Harte
  6. "The Notary of Perigueux" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  7. "The Widow's Cruise" by Frank R. Stockton
  8. "The Count and the Wedding Guest" by O. Henry
  9. "Miss Tooker's Wedding Gift" by John Kendrick Bangs
  10. "The Fable of the Two Mandolin Players and the Willing Performer" by George Ade
  11. "The Fable of the Preacher Who Flew His Kite, But Not Because He Wished to Do So" by George Ade
  12. "The Shadows on the Wall" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  13. "Major Perdue's Bargain" by Joel Chandler Harris
  14. "A Kentucky Cinderella" by Francis Hopkinson Smith
  15. "By the Waters of Paradise" by Francis Marion Crawford
  16. "A Memorable Night" by Anna Katharine Green
  17. "The Man from Red Dog" by Alfred Henry Lewis
  18. "Jean Michaud's Little Ship" by Charles G.D. Roberts
  19. "Those Old Lunes!" by William Gilmore Simms
  20. "The Chiropodist" by Bayard Taylor
  21. "Mr. Dooley on Corporal Punishment" by Finley Peter Dunne
  22. "Over a Wood Fire" by Ik Marvel

Volume II: English

  1. "The Two Drovers" by Sir Walter Scott
  2. "Mr. Deuceace" by William Makepeace Thackeray
  3. "The Brothers" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  4. "Doctor Manette's Manuscript" by Charles Dickens
  5. "The Caldron of Oil" by Wilkie Collins
  6. "The Burial of the Tithe" by Samuel Lover
  7. "The Knightsbridge Mystery" by Charles Reade
  8. "The Courting of Dinah Shadd" by Rudyard Kipling
  9. "The Sire de Maletroit's Door" by Robert Louis Stevenson
  10. "The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange" by Arthur Conan Doyle
  11. "A Change of Treatment" by W. W. Jacobs
  12. "The Stickit Minister" by Samuel Rutherford Crockett
  13. "The Lammas Preaching" by Samuel Rutherford Crockett
  14. "An Undergraduate's Aunt" by F. Anstey
  15. "The Silhouettes" by Arthur Quiller-Couch
  16. "My Brother Henry" by J. M. Barrie
  17. "Gilray's Flower Pot" by J. M. Barrie
  18. "Mr. O'Leary's Second Love" by Charles Lever
  19. "The Indifference of the Miller of Hofbau" by Anthony Hope Hawkins
  20. "The Stolen Body" by H. G. Wells
  21. "The Lazarette of the 'Huntress'" by William Clark Russell
  22. "The Great Triangular Duel" by Frederick Marryat
  23. "Three Thimbles and a Pea" by George Borrow

Volume III: French

  1. "A Piece of Bread" by François Coppée
  2. "The Elixir of Life" by Honoré de Balzac
  3. "The Age for Love" by Paul Bourget
  4. "Mateo Falcone" by Prosper Mérimée
  5. "The Mirror" by Catulle Mendès
  6. "My Nephew Joseph" by Ludovic Halévy
  7. "A Forest Betrothal" by Erckmann-Chatrian
  8. Zadig the Babylonian by Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
  9. "Abandoned" by Guy de Maupassant
  10. "The Guilty Secret" by Charles Paul de Kock
  11. "Jean Monette" by Eugène François Vidocq
  12. "Solange" by Alexandre Dumas
  13. "The Birds in the Letter-box" by René Bazin
  14. "Jean Gourdon's Four Days" by Émile Zola
  15. "Baron de Trenck" by Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert
  16. "The Passage of the Red Sea" by Henry Murger
  17. "The Woman and the Cat" by Marcel Prévost
  18. "Gil Blas and Dr. Sangrado" by Alain-René Lesage
  19. "A Fight with a Cannon" by Victor Hugo
  20. "Tonton" by Adolphe Chenevière
  21. "The Last Lesson" by Alphonse Daudet
  22. "Croisilles" by Alfred de Musset
  23. "The Vase of Clay" by Jean Aicard

See also

References

  1. ↑ Mott, Frank Luther, ed. (1926). Rewards of Reading. New York: Henry Holt and Company. OCLC 1430337.
  2. ↑ Teich, Emma L. (1911). Potter, Marion E. (ed.). The Cumulative Book Index, Volume 13. Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Company. p. 431. Retrieved 13 March 2016.

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