An edition of Selected English Short Stories (Nineteenth Century) (1914)
Selected English Short Stories
(Nineteenth Century)
By Walker, Hugh,Sir Walter Scott,Charles Lamb,Washington Irving,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Benjamin Disraeli,Edgar Allan Poe,Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,John Brown,Charles Dickens,Anthony Trollope,George Meredith,W.H. White,William Morris,Richard Garnett,F.B. Miggles Harte,Robert Louis Stevenson,George Gissing,Mary Elizabeth Coleridge,Hubert Crackenthorpe,Hugh Walker,Hugh (ed.) Walker,Hugh (introduction) Walker
Publish Date
1928
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
eng
Pages
486
Description:
Scott, Sir Walter. The two drovers. Wandering Willie's tale. Lamb, Charles. The witch aunt. Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The snow image. The threefold destiny. [Dr. Heidegger's experiment](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455515W). Howe's masquerade. Disraeli, Benjamin. Ixion in heaven. Poe, E.A. [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W). [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W). [Eleonora](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14937980W). Gaskell, Elizabeth C. The squire's story. Brown, Dr. John. Rab and his friends. Dickens, Charles. The seven poor travellers. Trollope, Anthony. Malachi's cove. Meredith, George. The punishment of Shahpesh, the Persian, on Khipil, the builder. White, W.H. Mr Whittaker's retirement. Morris, William. The story of the unknown church. Garnett, Richard. The dumb oracle. Harte, F.B. Miggles. Tennessee's partner. The Iliad of Sandy Bar. Mliss. Stevenson, R.L. Markheim. Thrawn Janet. Providence and the guitar. Gissing, George. Christopherson. Coleridge, Mary. The king is dead, long live the king. Crackenthorpe, Hubert. Saint-Pé.
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