A Collection of Short-Stories

EDITED BY
L.A. PITTENGER, A.M.,
CRITIC IN ENGLISH, INDIANA UNIVERSITY

New York:
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY,
1914

Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1913. Reprinted January, 1914.

Norwood Press,
J.S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.,
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.


Contents

[A PREFATORY NOTE]
[INTRODUCTION:]
[ History of the Short-story]
[ Qualities of the Short-story]
[ Composition of the Short-story]
[ Books for Reference]
[ Collections of Short-stories]
[THE FATHER. 1860. Björnstjerne Björnson.]
[THE GRIFFIN AND THE MINOR CANON. 1887. Frank R. Stockton.]
[THE PIECE OF STRING. 1884. Guy de Maupassant.]
[THE MAN WHO WAS. 1889. Rudyard Kipling.]
[THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER. 1839. Edgar Allan Poe.]
[THE GOLD-BUG. 1843. Edgar Allan Poe.]
[THE BIRTHMARK. 1843. Nathaniel Hawthorne.]
[ETHAN BRAND. 1848. Nathaniel Hawthorne.]
[THE SIRE DE MALÉTROIT'S DOOR. 1878. Robert Louis Stevenson.]
[MARKHEIM. 1884. Robert Louis Stevenson.]

A PREFATORY NOTE

This collection of short-stories does not illustrate the history of short-story writing, nor does it pretend that these are the ten best stories ever written, but it does attempt to present selections from a list of the greatest short-stories that have proved, in actual use, most beneficial to high school students.