American short stories of the nineteenth century

Cournos, John, 1881-1966 (editor.).

Item details

Physical Description: print
xii, 372 pages 18 cm.
Publisher: London, J.M. Dent; New York, E.P. Dutton [1930]

Contents / Notes

General Note:

Edited with an introd. by John Cournos.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / John Cournos -- Petter Rugg, the missing man / William Austin -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Ethan Brand / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Town-ho's story / Herman Melville -- Diamond lens / Fritz-James O'Brien -- Luck of Roaring camp / Bret Harte -- Marjorie Daw / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain -- Griffin and the Minor Canon / Frank R Stockton -- Horseman in the sky / Ambrose Bierce -- Passionate pilgrim / Henry James -- Hilton's holiday / Sarah Orne -- 'Sieur George / George W Cable -- Madame Celestin's divorce / Kate Chopin -- Little Room / Madelene Yale Wynne -- Village lear / Mary E Wilkins -- Van Bibber's burglar / Richard Harding Davis -- God of his Fathers / Jack London -- Furnished room / O Henry.