Selected English Short Stories, 19. Century

Contents; The two drovers / Sir Walter Scott -- Wandering Willie's tale / Sir Walter Scott -- The witch aunt / Charles Lamb -- Rip van Winkle / Washington Irving -- The snow-image / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The threefold destiny / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Dr Heidegger's experiment / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Howe's masquerade / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Ixion in Heaven / Benjamin Disraeli -- The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- The pit and the pendulum / Edgar Allan Poe -- Eleonora / Edgar Allan Poe -- The squire's story / Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell -- Rab and his friends / John Brown -- The seven poor travellers / Charles Dickens -- Malachi's cove / Anthony Trollope -- The punishment of Shahpesh, the Persian, on Khipil, the builder / George Meredith -- Mr Whittaker's retirement / William Hale White -- The story of the unknown church / William Morris -- The dumb oracle / Richard Garnett -- Miggles / Francis Bret Harte -- Tennessee's partner / Francis Bret Harte -- The Iliad of Sandy Bar / Francis Bret Harte -- Mliss / Francis Bret Harte -- Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Thrawn Janet / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Providence and the guitar / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Christopherson / George Gissing -- The king is dead, long live the king / Mary Coleridge -- Saint-Pé / Hubert Crackanthorpe