You can find this set Greatest Short Stories 1940 in my iluvbooks shop on ArtFire.
This is Volume 2, it has a crease on the cover. |
This is Volume 1, the title page is ripped out. |
Here is a list of authorsfrom this set of books:
Volume 1
Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank R. Stockton,Fitz-James O'Brien
Edward Everett Hale, Theodore Dreiser, Ring Lardner, J. T. Trowbridge, W. H. H. Murray, Rebecca Harding Davis, Bayard Taylor
Volume 2
Stephen Crane, J. W. De Forest, A. A. Hayes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank R. Stockton, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Edna Ferber, Dorothy Parker
Volume 3
O. Henry, Joel Chandler Harris, Joseph A. Altsheler, Margaret Deland, George Ade, Myra Kelly, Bret Harte, John Luther Long, Frank H. Spearman, Booth Tarkington, F. P. Dunne, W. Douglas Newton, Leila Burton Wells, Mark Twain, Henry Harland, Samuel Hopkins Adams, James Oliver Curwood
Volume 4
Max Nordau, Selma Lagerlof, Nikolai Dmitrievitch Teleshov, Alexandre Dumas, Fils, Nataly von Eschstruth, Emile Zola, Anton Pavlovitch Chekhow, Guy de Maupassant, A. Conan Doyle, Jean August Strindberg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudolf Baumbach, Maxim Gorki, Antonio Gogazzaro, Theophile Gautier, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Augustin Eugene Scribe
Volume 5
Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin, Honore de Balzac, A. Conan Doyle, Arthur Schnitzler, Prosper Merimee, Anton Pavlovitch Chechov, Guy de Maupassant, Anatole France, James Matthew, Barrie, A. T. Quiller-Couch, Ivan Turgenev, Alexandre Dumas, Leonid Andreiev, Grancois Edouard Joachim Coppee, Rudyard Kipling
Volume 6
Emile Gaboriau, Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol, Giovanni, Verga, Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Jules Gabriel Janin, Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse, Robert Louis Stevenson, Feodor Mikailovitch Dostoievski, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Alfred Louis Charles de Musset, Hermann Sudermann, H. G. Wells, Count Leo Nikolaievitch Tolstoi
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