Masters of the Short Story: The whole world in a few pages

The short story at its height — Chekhov, Maupassant, O. Henry, Poe, and Saki — the form that proves a few pages can hold an entire life.

In this collection

• Liberty Hall
• A Guarded Secret
• A Tripping Tongue
• The Shoemaker and the Devil
• A Story Without an End
• Mad
• The Little One
• The Last Word
• The Dog and the Playlet
• In the Coach House
• The Stampeding of Lady Bastable
• An Afternoon Miracle
• The Looking-Glass
• Dreams
• Feminine Men
• A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family
• A Transgression
• The Wardrobe
• A Meeting
• In the Ravine
• The Park of Kings
• Confessions of a Humorist
• The Schoolmistress
• Miss Ophelia Gledd
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