The Great English Short-Story Writers

CONTENTSI The Evolution of the Short-Storyn II The Apparition of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe (1661-1731) III The Mysterious Bride by James Hogg (1770-1835) IV The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving (1783-1859) V Dr Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1807-1864) VI The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) VII Rab and His Friends by Dr. John Brown (1810-1882) VIII The Boots At The Holly-Tree Inn by Charles Dickens (1812-1870) IX A Story of Seven Devils by Frank R Stockton (1834-1902) X A Dog's Tale by Mark Twain (1835) XI The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte (1839-1902) XII The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy (1840) XIII Julia Bride by Henry James (1843) XIV A Lodging for the Night by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)