The Treasury of English Short Stories

The Reeve's Tale / Geoffrey Chaucer -- The Apparition of Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe -- The Wedding of Jenny Distaff / Richard Steele -- A Story of an Heir / Joseph Addison -- The Mysterious Bride / James Hogg -- The Tapestried Chamber or The Lady in the Sacque / Sir Walter Scott -- The Half-Brothers / Elizabeth Gaskell -- Snobs and Marriage / William Makepeace Thackeray -- The Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn / Charles Dickens -- The White Cat of Drumgunniol / J.S. Le Fanu -- Returning Home / Anthony Trollope -- The Dead Hand / Wilkie Collins -- A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four / Thomas Hardy -- The Story of a Piebald Horse / W.H. Hudson -- A Lodging for the Night / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Birthday of the Infanta / Oscar Wilde -- Il Conde / Joseph Conrad -- The New Catacomb / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Mary Postgate / Rudyard Kipling -- Mr. Brisher's Treasure / H.G. Wells -- The Broken Boot / John Galsworthy -- Tobermory / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- The Creatures / Walter de la Mare -- The Colonel's Lady / W. Somerset Maugham -- Arabesque- The Mouse / A.E. Coppard -- The Boarding House / James Moyce -- The Duchess and the Jeweller / Virginia Woolf. Bachelors / Hugh Walpole -- The Prussian Officer / D.H. Lawrence -- New Women / Joyce Cary -- Bliss / Katherine Mansfield -- Idenborough / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Fard / Aldous Huxley -- Spring Sowing / Liam O'Flaherty -- Hand in Glove / Elizabeth Bowen -- Sinners / Sean O'Faolain -- The Spree / V.S.