The Treasury of English Short Stories
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The Treasury of English Short Stories

1985
short storiesbeekeepersroyal jellygrubsSocial life and customsShort stories, Commonwealth (English)FictionEnglish Short storiesShort stories, EnglishCommonwealth of Nations authors

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. Pritchett -- A Wedding-Dress / Morley Callaghan -- Judas / Frank O'Connor -- A Drink in the Passage / Alan Paton -- Mortmain / Graham Greene -- The Spring Hat / H.E. Bates -- Under the Banyan Tree / R.K. Narayan -- The Old Man / Daphne du Maurier -- Eterna / Mary Lavin -- Willy-Wagtails by Moonlight / Patrick White -- The True Story / Dylan Thomas -- [Royal Jelly](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504271W) / Roald Dahl -- The Fathers' Daughters / Muriel Spark -- Two Potters / Doris Lessing -- The Confirmation Suit / Brendan Behan -- Native Country / Nadine Gordimer -- Prizes / Janet Frame -- Timoshenko / Iain Crichton Smith -- The Ballroom of Romance / William Trevor -- A Day in the Country / Dan Jacobson -- Weekend / Shirley Hazzard -- Prue / Alice Munro -- Legend for a Painting / Julia O'Faolain -- Threnody / Fay Weldon -- Cords / Edna O'Brien -- Rape Fantasies / Margaret Atwood -- The Courtship of Mr. Lyon / Angela Carter -- Secrets / Bernard MacLaverty -- Night in Tunisia / Neil Jordan.

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