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An anthology of famous British stories

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The pardoner's tale / Geoffrey Chaucer --
The marvellous adventure of the sword / Sir Thomas Malory --
The apparition of Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe --
The vision of Mirza / Joseph Addison --
Asem, an eastern tale / Oliver Goldsmith --
The two drovers / Sir Walter Scott --
The iron shroud / William Mudford --
The gridiron / Samuel Lover --
The house and the brain / E. Bulwer-Lytton --
Con Cregan's legacy / Chrles Lever --
Rab and his friends / John Brown --
The half-brothers / Elizabeth C. Gaskell --
Sultan Stork / Willaim Makepeace Thackeray --
A christmas card / Charles Dickens --
Malachi's cove / Anthony Trollope --
The punishment of Shahpesh, the Persian, on Khipil, the builder / George Meredith --
The three strangers / Thomas Hardy --
Story of a piebald horse / W.H. Hudson --
Sire de Malétroit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson --
A lodging for the night / Robert Louis Stevenson --
The story of Dr. MacLure / John Watson (Ian Maclaren) --
Faith / R. Cunninghame Graham --
The clerk's quest / George Moore. The birthday of the infanta / Oscar Wilde --
Youth / Joseph Conrad --
The captain of the "Ullswater" / Morley Roberts --
The adventure of the speckled band / A. Conan Doyle --
The courting of T'nowhead's bell / Sir James Matthew Barrie --
The babus of Nayanjore / Sir Rabindranath Tagore --
Philippa's fox-hunt / E. Somerville and Martin Ross --
The mezzotint / Montague Rhodes James --
"Hey diddle diddle, the cat ..." / Eden Phillpotts --
The adventure of the kind Mr. Smith / William J. Locke --
The roll-call of the reef / Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch --
That brute Simmons / Arthur Morrison --
The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs --
The doll in the pink silk dress / Leonard Merrick --
The drums of the fore and aft / Rudyard Kipling --
The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling --
Red Hanrahan / William Butler Yeats --
The country of the blind / H.G. Wells --
Mary with the high hand / Arnold Bennett --
The apple-tree / John Galsworthy. Action / C.E. Montague --
The valley of the beasts / Algernon Blackwood --
Mrs. Packletide's tiger / Saki --
The happy hypocrite / Max Beerbohm --
The derelict / H.M. Tomlinson --
Red / W. Somerset Maugham --
The hammer of God / G.K. Chesterton --
The kings of Orion / John Buchan --
The stranger in the village / Sir Philip Gibbs --
The higgler / A.E. Coppard --
The western island / John Masefield --
The sword of Welleran / Lord Dunsany --
The celestial omnibus / E.M. Forster --
The log of the "Evening Star" / Alfred Noyes --
Jeeves and the song of songs / P.G. Wodehouse --
Three lovers who lost / James Stephens --
The dead / James Joyce --
Purple and fine linen / May Edginton --
Mr. Oddy / Sir Hugh Walpole --
A busman's holiday / Francis Brett Young --
A sleeping draft / Weston Martyr --
The Prussian officer / D.H. Lawrence --
Fish are such liars / Roland Pertwee --
A source of irritation / Stacy Aumonier --
The chink and the child / Thomas Burke --
Life of Ma Parker / Katherine Mansfield --
A day in a woman's life / Sheila Kaye-Smith --
Rivers of Damascus / Donn Byrne. The Gioconda smile / Aldous Huxley --
The cavalier of the streets / Michael Arlen --
The old hunter / Liam O'Flaherty --
The white cottage / L.A.G. Strong --
The trapper's mates / Henry Williamson --
The forty-third division / Ralph Bates --
The eyes / Thomas Owen Beachcroft --
The betting Scotchman / Anonymous --
Bella Fleace gave a party / Evelyn Waugh.

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Publisher
Modern Library
Language
English
Pages
1233

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Cover of: An Anthology of Famous British Stories
An Anthology of Famous British Stories
1952, Modern Library
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Cover of: An anthology of famous British stories
An anthology of famous British stories
1952, Modern Library
in English - [1st Modern Library giant ed.]
Cover of: The bedside book of famous British stories.
The bedside book of famous British stories.
1940, The Literary Guild of America
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Cover of: The bedside book of famous British stories

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New York

Edition Notes

First published in 1940 under title: The bedside book of famous British stories.

Series
The Modern library of the world's best books

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ1.C35 An, PZ1.C35 An 1952

The Physical Object

Pagination
1233 p.
Number of pages
1233

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6109936M
Internet Archive
anthologyoffamou00cerf
LCCN
52005878
OCLC/WorldCat
2360154, 505740384
Library Thing
1325596

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