Fireside Reader: A Treasury of Outstanding Short Stories

Fireside Reader: A Treasury of Outstanding Short Stories by Reader's Digest. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780895770998.

Included: The bottle imp by Robert Louis Stevenson An end to dreams by Stephen Vincent Benet Parsons pleasure by Roald Dahl The bride comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane The monkeys paw by W. W. Jacobs The Foster portfolio by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The poor relations story by Charles Dickens The real thing by Henry James The hostage by C. S. Forster Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving The girls in their summer dresses by Irving Shaw The street that got mislaid by Patrick Waddington A piece of steak by Jack London The secret ingredient by Paul Gallico The hawk by Liam OFlaherty The apprentice by Dorothy Canfeld Fisher A sick call by Morley Callaghan A terribly strange bed by Wilkie Collins The loss by Gillian Tindall The mouse by Saki (H. H. Munro) Tickets, please by D. H. Lawrence The country of the blind by H. G. Wells The gifts of war by Margaret Drabble The skedule by H. H. Wilson "Well Im - !" by G. E. M. Skues The weather breeder by Merrill Dennison In and out the houses by Elizabeth Taylor A rose for Emily by William Faulkner The test by Brendan Gill The hammer of God by G. K. Chesterton The pocketbook game by Alice Childress The wedding gift by Thomas Raddell The adventures of the speckled band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The pit and the pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe The boy who drew cats by Lafcadio Hern The little governess by Katharine Mansfield Running wolf by Algernon Blackwood The peach stone by Paul Horgan Red by W. Somerset Maugham The firey wooing of Mordred by P. G. Wodehouse A sunrise on the veld by Doris Lessing The ghost by Richard Hughes The birds by Daphne du Maurier The story of the widows son by Mary Lavin The train from Rhodesia by Nadine Gordimer Dygartsbush by Walter D. Edmonds The jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Anne Porter Winters morning by Len Deighton The lady on the gray by John Collier The wind and the snow of winter by Walter Van Tilburg Clark.