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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/296486 Title: The book of the short story Author: Alexander Jessup; Henry Seidel Canby; Robeson Bailey Publisher: New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts, [1948] OCLC:296486

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The book of the short story

Author:	Alexander Jessup; Henry Seidel Canby; Robeson Bailey
Publisher:	New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts, [1948]
Edition/Format:	Book : Fiction : English : New and enl. edView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Jessup, Alexander, b. 1871. Book of the short story. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts [1948] (OCoLC)612686095
Material Type:	Fiction
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Alexander Jessup; Henry Seidel Canby; Robeson Bailey Find more information about:
OCLC Number:	296486
Notes:	A revision of the 1903 edition, ed. by Alexander Jessup and Henry Seidel Canby, with 9 stories added.
Description:	viii, 406 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents:	Introduction: pt. 1 / H.S. Canby; pt. 2 / Robeson Bailey -- The shipwrecked sailor / from an Egyptian papyrus of the XIIth dynasty -- The book of Ruth / from the Bible -- The story of Cupid and Psyche / Apuleius -- Frederick of the Alberighi and his falcon / Boccaccio -- The nun's priest's tale / Geoffrey Chaucer -- The story of Ali Baba and the forty robbers destroyed by a slave / from the Thousand and one nights -- The apparition of Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe -- Jeannot and Colin / Voltaire -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Wandering Willie's tale / Sir Walter Scott -- The taking of the redoubt / Prosper Mérimée -- La Grande Bretèche / Honoré de Balzac -- The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- Ethan Brand / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Markheim / R.L. Stevenson -- A coward / Guy de Maupassant -- Without benefit of clergy / Rudyard Kipling -- The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- The darling / Anton Chekhov -- Mrs. Medwin / Henry James -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- A little cloud / James Joyce -- A dill pickle / Katherine Mansfield -- Haircut / Ring Lardner -- The killers / Ernest Hemingway -- Brother Death / Sherwood Anderson -- The Devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Appendix: A list of representative tales and short stories (p. 391-406)
Responsibility:	ed. by Henry Seidel Canby and Robeson Bailey.

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