World’s One Hundred Best Short Stories, Volume Five: Drama ed. Grant Overton (Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1927, 164pp, hc, an)
One of a ten-volume series.
- 7 · The Return of the Tide [The Callahans of Clare] · Kathleen Norris · ss Cosmopolitan January 1923
- 39 · A Dark-Brown Dog · Stephen Crane · ss The Cosmopolitan March 1901
- 47 · The Silver Crucifix · Antonio Fogazzaro; translated by Lionel Strachey · ss Short Story Classics (Foreign) ed. William Patten, P.F. Collier, 1907
- 59 · The Stick-in-the-Muds · Rupert Hughes · nv Collier’s September 25 1920
- 84 · The Long Exile · Leo Tolstoy; translated by Thomas Seltzer · ss Best Russian Short Stories ed. Thomas Seltzer, Boni & Liveright, 1917
- 95 · The Prophetic Pictures · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Token and Atlantic Souvenir 1837, 1836, uncredited.
- 114 · “Dr. Manette’s Manuscript” · Charles Dickens · ex from A Tale of Two Cities, Chapman & Hall, 1859
- 133 · The Last Lesson · Alphonse Daudet · ss The Scrap Book September 1909
translated from the French.
- 139 · The Mysterious Mansion · Honore de Balzac · ss Shorter Stories from Balzac by Honoré de Balzac, Walter Scott, 1890, as “An Accursed House”
translated from the French (“La Grande Bretèche”, Contes Brun, 1831).
- 153 · The Necklace · Guy de Maupassant; translated by Jonathan Sturges · ss The Odd Number by Guy de Maupassant, tr. Jonathan Sturges, Harper & Brothers, 1889
translated from the French (“La Parure”, Le Gaulois, Feb 17, 1884).
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