Publisher Description
A vintage collection of some of the greatest short stories ever written:
Included are The Fly by Katherine Mansfield; The Mezzotint by M. R. James; The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe; The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy; The Jew’s Beech Tree by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff; Tobermory by Saki; The Lady or the Tiger by Frank Stockton; B24 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy; The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry; The Finest Story in the World by Rudyard Kipling; Cannibalism in the Cars by Mark Twain; The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter by Ambrose Bierce; The Brogue by Saki; The Stalled Ox by Saki; Hunted Down by Charles Dickens.
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About various authors
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) was born in Odense, Denmark, the son of a poor shoemaker and a washerwoman. As a young teenager, he became quite well known in Odense as a reciter of drama and as a singer. When he was fourteen, he set off for the capital, Copenhagen, determined to become a national success on the stage. He failed miserably, but made some influential friends in the capital who got him into school to remedy his lack of proper education. In 1829 his first book was published. After that, books came out at regular intervals. His stories began to be translated into English as early as 1846. Since then, numerous editions, and more recently Hollywood songs and Disney cartoons, have helped to ensure the continuing popularity of the stories in the English-speaking world.