Fifty Great Classic Stories

Summary

Fifty great classic short stories selected from the works of the best writers of the last century.

1. Juxtapositions by Stacy Aumonier
2. The Misogynist by Henry Prothero
3. Lost in a Pyramid by Louisa May Alcott
4. An Egyptian Cigarette by Kate Chopin
5. The Roman Road by Kenneth Grahame
6. The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling
7. My Adventure in Norfolk by A. J. Alan
8. Gabriel-Ernest by Saki
9. The Mother Stone by John Galsworthy
10. The Egg by Sherwood Anderson
11. Rats by M. R. James
12. The Ring of Thoth by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
13. The Ship that saw a Ghost by Frank Norris
14. The Brothers by Stacy Aumonier
15. The Girl who was tired of Love by Leonard Merrick
16. The Idiot by Arnold Bennet
17. Found on a Drowned Man by Guy de Maupassant
18. An Undergraduate’s Aunt by F. Anstey
19. H2 etc. by A. J. Alan
20. The Wolf by Guy de Maupassant
21. The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
22. The Chaplet by Saki
23. The Grey Parrot by W. W. Jacobs
24. The One Million Pound Banknote by Mark Twain
25. Major Namby by Wilkie Collins
26. Blackmail by John Galsworthy
27. A Lucky Number by S. B. Hale
28. A Falling Out by Kenneth Grahame
29. A Child’s Revenge by Paul Bourget
30. Submarine by Stella Benson
31. The Hair by A. J. Alan
32. The Haunted Doll’s House by M. R. James
33. The Lightning-Rod Man by Herman Melville
34. The Man-Wolf by Leitch Ritchie
35. Spindleberries by John Galsworthy
36. The Mummy’s Foot by Théophile Gautier
37. The Hired Baby by Marie Corelli
38. Old Fags by Stacy Aumonier
39. A Professor of Egyptology by Guy Boothby
40. Lot No. 249 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
41. The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains by Frederick Marryat
42. The Slapping Sal by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
43. Where was Wych Street? By Stacy Aumonier
44. Mademoiselle Fifi by Guy de Maupassant
45. Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield
46. The Octave of Jealousy by Stacy Aumonier
47. My Adventure at Chislehurst by A. J. Alan
48. Odour of Chrysanthemums by D. H. Lawrence
49. Pickled Herring by W. W. Jacobs
50. William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe