English short stories : selected to show the development of the Short story from the fifteenth to the twentieth century.

• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London ; Toronto : Dent ; 1923.; New York : Dutton,
• Series: Everyman's library. Fiction
• Subjects: Cuentos ingleses

Table of Contents:

• The Green Knight / Traditional (retold by Ernest Rhys)
• Tom Tit Tot / English Folk Lore
• Apolonius and Silla / Barnaby Rich
• Sir Simon Eyer / Thomas Deloney
• In Defence of his right / Daniel Defoe
• A story of a heir / The "Spectator" Joseph Addison
• The Wedding of Jenny Distaff / Richard Steele
• Le Fevre / Laurence Sterne
• Maria / Laurence Sterne
• The story of Melissa / John Hawkesworth
• The disabled soldier / Oliver Goldsmith
• The tapestried chamber / Sir Walter Scott
• The Haunted Ships / Allan Cunningham
• Savannah-la-mar / Thomas de Quincey
• Levana and our ladies of Sorrow / Thomas de Quincey
• The Freshwater Firsherman / Mary Russell Mitford
• The love quarrel / Agnes Strickland
• Dorathea / Mrs. Gore
• Grizel Cochrane / J.M. Wilson
• The old man's tale about the Queer client / Charles Dickens
• Hand and Soul / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• Mrs. Martin 's Company / Jane Barlow
• The Half-brothers / Mrs. Gaskell
• Markheim / R.L. Stevenson
• The Veiled Portrait / James M'Govan (William Honeyman)
• The song of the minster / William Canton
• Mr. Sampson / Charles Lee
• Do Seek their meat from god / C.G.D. Roberts
• The essence of a man / Alan Sullivan
• A pair of hands / Sir A.T. Quiller-Couch
• The story of a Piebald Horse / W.H. Hudson
• The creatures / Walter de la Mare
• Bachelors / Hugh Walpole
• The prince consort / Anthony Hope
• The three strangers / Thomas Hardy
• Spindleberries / John Galsworthy.