Great short stories of the world : a collection of complete short stories chosen from the literatures of all periods and countries
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- Great short stories of the world : a collection of complete short stories chosen from the literatures of all periods and countries
- Jaar:
- 1926
- Taal:
- Engels
- Uitgever:
- London : Heinemann, [1926]
- Plaatsnummer:
- Paginering:
- 8°., XV - 1072 p.
- Samenvatting:
- The two brothers (Anpu & Bata) / Anonymous -- Setna & the magic book / Anonymous -- Eumaeus' tale / Homer -- The country mouse & the town mouse / Aesop -- King Rhampsinitus & the thief / Herodotus -- Phineus & the Harpies / Apollonius of Rhodes -- The robbers of Egypt / Heliodorus -- Horatius at the bridge / Livy -- Orpheus & Eurydice / Ovid -- The shipwreck of Simonides / Phaedrus -- The matron of Ephesus / Petronius -- The haunted house / Pliny the Younger -- The dream / Apuleius -- The book of Ruth (Old Testament) -- The history of Susanna (the Apocrypha) -- The prodigal son ; The raising of Lazarus (New Testament) -- Rabbi Akiva ; The Jewish mother (the Talmud) -- The ass in the lion's skin (Jataka) -- The dove & the crow (Panchatantra) -- The story of Devadatta / Somadeva -- The jackal (Hitopadesa) Jamshid & Zuhak / Firdawsí -- The sailor & the pearl merchant / Anonymous -- Khaled & Djaida / Al-Asma'I -- Abou Hassan the wag (Thousand and one nights) -- Grendel's raid (Beowulf) -- Esyllt & Sabrina / Geoffrey of Monmouth -- The humbling of Jovinian (Gesta Romanorum) -- Lludd & Llevelys (The Mabinogion) -- Launcelot's tourney / Sir Thomas Malory -- Roberto's tale / Robert Greene -- True relation of the apparition of one Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe -- The story of an heir / Joseph Addison -- The disabled soldier / Oliver Goldsmith -- The bridal of Janet Dalrymple / Sir Walter Scott -- The white trout / Samuel Lover -- The queer client / Charles Dickens -- A terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins -- Squire Petrick's lady / Thomas Hardy -- Thrawn Janet / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The selfish giant / Oscar Wilde -- Julia Cahill's curse / George Moore -- That brute Simmons / Arthur Morrison The lay of Hildebrand / Anonymous -- Siegfried & Kriemhild (The lay of the Nibelungs) -- The coming of Gandin / Gottfried von Strassburg -- Bruin the bear & Reynard the fox (Reynard the fox) -- Eulenspiegel & the merchant (Eulenspiegel) -- Doctor Faust & the usurer (The histor
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