*Includes a table of contents
The Short-Story: Specimens Illustrating Its Development is a wonderful collection of short stories and notes by compiler Brander Matthews. The collection includes:
The Husband of Aglaes from “Gesta Romanorum”
The Story of Griselda by Boccaccio
Constantia and Theodosius by Joseph Addison
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
Dream-Children; A Revery by Charles Lamb
Wandering Willie’s Tale by Walter Scott
Mateo Falcone by Prosper Mérimée
The Shot by Alexander Pushkin
The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
The Ambitious Guest by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Child’s Dream of a Star by Charles Dickens
What Was It? A Mystery by Fitz-James O’Brien
The Father by Björnstjerne Björnson
Tennessee’s Partner by Bret Harte
The Siege of Berlin by Alphonse Daudet
The Insurgent by Ludovic Halévy
The Substitute by François Coppée
Mrs. Knollys by Frederic J. Stimson
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Man Who Was by Rudyard Kipling
A Sisterly Scheme by H. C. Bunner
