Author:
Clark, Barrett H. (Barrett Harper), 1890-1953.
Imprint:New York : Albert & Charles Boni, c1925
Descriptionxv, 1072 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:ANCIENT EGYPT: The two brothers (Anpu and Bata) / Anonymous. - Setna and the magic book / Anonymous. -- ANCIENT GREECE: Eumaeus' tale / Homer. - The country mouse and the town mouse / Aesop. - King Rhampsinitus and the thief / Herodotus. - Phineus and the harpies / Apollonius of Rhodes. - The robbers of Egypt / Heliodorus. -- ANCIENT ROME: Horatius at the bridge / Livy. - Orpheus and Eurydice / Ovid. - The shipwreck of Simonides / Phaedrus. - The matron of Ephesus / Petronius. - The haunted house / Pliny the Younger. - The dream / Apuleius. -- BIBLICAL LITERATURE: The book of Ruth / Old Testament. - The history of Susanna / The Apocrypha. - The prodigal son / New Testament. - The raising of Lazarus / New Testament. - Rabbi Akiva / The Talmud. - The Jewish mother / The Talmud. -- ANCIENT INDIA: The ass in the lion's skin / Jataka. - The dove and the crow / Panchatantra. - The story of Devadatta / Somadeva. - The jackal / Hitopadesa. -- PERSIA: Jamshid and Zuhak / Firdawsi. - The sailor and the pearl merchant / Anonymous. -- ARABIA: Khaled and Djaida / Al-Asma'l. - Abou Hassan the wag / Thousand and One Nights. -- GREAT BRITAIN: Grendel's raid / Beowulf. - Esyllt and Sabrina / Geoffrey of Monmouth. - The humbling of Jovinian / Gesta Romanorum. - Lludd and Llevelys / The Mabinogion. - Launcelot's tourney / Sir Thomas Malory. - Roberto's tale / Robert Greene. - True relation of the apparition of one Mrs. Veal--- / Daniel Defoe. - The story of an heir / Joseph Addison. - The disabled soldier / Oliver Goldsmith. - The bridal of janet Dalrymple / Sir Walter Scott. - The white trout / Samuel Lover. - The queer client / Charles Dickens. - A terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins. - Squire Petrick's lady / Thomas Hardy. - Thrawn Janet / Robert Louis Stevenson. - The selfish giant / Oscar Wilde. - Julia Cahill's curse / George Moore. - That brute Simmons / Arthur Morrison. -- GERMANY: The lay of Hildebrand / Anonymous. - Siegfried and Kriemhild / The lay of the Nibelungs. - The coming of Gandin / Gottfried von Strasburg. - Bruin the bear and Reynard the fox / Reynard the Fox. - Eulenspiegel and the merchant / Eulenspiegel. - Doctor Faust and the usurer / The history of Dr. J. Faust. - The sick wife / Christian Gellert. - Little Briar-Rose / The Brothers Grimm. - The story of Serapion / E.T.A. Hoffmann. - A legend of the dance / Gottfried Keller. - The fury / Paul Heyse. - The triple warning / Arthur Schnitzler. - A New-Year's Eve confession / Hermann Sudermann. -- FRANCE: The divided horsecloth / Bernier. - The priest and the mulberries / Anonymous. - The lay of the two lovers / Marie de France. - The pious lady and the gray friar / Marguerite de navarre. - He who married a dumb wife / François Rabelais. - The roast-meat seller / François Rabelais. - Little Red Riding-Hood / Charles Perrault. - The four friends / Jean de Lafontaine. - memnon the philosopher / Voltaire. - Lausus and Lydia / J.F. Marmontel. - The mysterious mansion / Honoré de Balzac. - Mateo Falcone / Prosper Mérimée. - The mummy's foot / Théophile Gautier. - The torture ofhope / Villiers de L'Isle Adam. - The last lesson / Alphonse Daudet. - The fairy armoureuse / Émile Zola. - The substitute / François Coppée. - Our lady's juggler / Anatole France. - The necklace / Guy de maupassant. -- ITALY: The bell of Atri / The hundred ancient tales. - The falcon / Giovanni Boccaccio. - Galgano / Ser Giovanni. - The two ambassadors / Franco Sacchetti. - The cavalier of Toledo / Masuccio (Guardato). - Belphagor / Niccolo Macchiavelli. - A king in disguise / Matteo Bandello. - The friar of Novara / Agnolo Firenzuola. - The Greek merchant / Giovanbattista Giraldi Cinthio. - The Venetian silk-mercer / Carlo Gozzi. - Cavalleria Rusticana / Giovanni Verga. - The peasant's will / Antonio Forgazzaro. - Mendicant Melody / Edmondo de Amicis. - Lulu's triumph / Matilde Serao. - The hero / Gabriele d'Anunnunzio. - Two miracles / Grazia deledda. -- SPAIN: The miracle of the Jew / Chronicle of the Cid. - The son and his friends / Juan Manuel. - How Lazaro served a bulero / Diego Hurtado de mendoza. - Guzman and my lord cardinal / Mateo Alemán. - Rinconette and Cortadillo / Miguel Cervantes. - The tall woman / Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. - Maese Pérez, the organist / Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. - Adios, Cordera! / Leopoldo Alas. -- CHINA: The story of Ming-Y / Marvelous tales. - A fickle widow / Marvelous tales. - The virtuous daughter-in-law / P'u Sung-Ling. -- JAPAN: The forty-seven rónins / Anonymous. - The pier / Mori Ogwai. - A domestic animal / Shimazaki Toson. -- HOLLAND: The higher the flight the lower the fall / Jacob Cats. - The story of Saïdjah / Eduard Douwes Dekker. - Grandfather's birthday present / Herman Heijermans. -- HUNGARY: The invisible wound / Karoly Kisfaludi. - A ball / Maurus Jokai. - The green fly / Kalman Mikszath. - The silver hilt / Ferenc Molnar. -- RUSSIA: The snow story / Alexander Pushkin. - St. John's eve / Nikolai Gogol. - The district doctor / Ivan Turgenev. - The Christmas tree and the wedding / Feodor Dostoievsky. - The long exile / Leo Tolstoy. - The old bell-ringer / Vladimir Korolenko. - The signal / Vsevolod Garshin. - The bet / Anton Chekhov. - One autumn night / Maxim Gorky. - Silence / Leonid Andreyev. -- POLAND: The lighthouse keeper or Aspinwall / Henryk Sienkiewicz. - The human telegraph / Boleslav Prus. - Forebodings / Stefan Zeromski. -- YIDDISH: A woman's wrath / Isaac Loeb Peretz. - The Passover guest / Sholom Aleichem. - A picnic / S. Libin. - The kaddish / Abraham Raisin. - Abandoned / Sholem Asch.- In the storm / david Pinski. -- THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES:ICELAND: Baldr's bale / Snorri Sturluson. - Regin's tale / VOlsunga saga. -- DENMARK: The shepherdess and the sweep / Hans Christian Andersen. - Henrik and Rosalie / Meer Aron Goldschmidt. - Two worlds / Jens Peter jacobsen. -- NORWAY: The smith who could not get into hell / Peter Christen Asbjörnsen and Jörgen Moe. - The father / Björnstjerne Björnson. - Skobelef / Johan Bojer. -- SWEDEN: Love and bread / August Strindberg. - The eclipse / Selma Lagerlöf. - The falcon / Per Hallström. -- BELGIUM: The myserious picture / Charles de Coster. - The massacre of the innocents / Maurice Maeterlinck. - The soul of Veere / Camille Lemonnier. - One night / Emile Verhaeren. -- JUGOSLAVIA: CROATIAN: The neighbor / Antun Gustav Matos. -- SLOVENIAN: Children and old folk / Ivan Cankar. -- SERBIAN: At the well / Laza K. Lazarevich. -- CZECHOSLOVAKIA: The vampire / Jan Neruda. - Foltýn's drum / Svatopluik Cech. -- MODERN GREECE: The priest's tale / emetrios Bikelas. -- ROUMANIAN: The Easter torch / I.L. Caragiale. - What Vasile saw / Marie, Queen of Roumania. -- BULGARIA: The Commissioner's Christmas / Dimitr Ivanov. -- SOUTH AMERICA: COSTA RICA: Chivalry/ Ricardo Fernández-García. -- BRAZIL: The attendant's confession / J.M. Machado de Assis. -- PERU: The legend of Pygmalion / Ventura García-Calderón. -- VENEZUELA: Creole democracy / Rufíno Blanco-Fombóna. -- NICARAGUA: The deaf satyr / Rubén Darío. -- UNITED STATES: The specter bridegroom / Washington Irving. - Mrs. Bullfrog / Nathaniel Hawthorne. - The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe. - Journalism in Tennessee / Mark Twain. - The man and the snake / Ambrose Bierce. - The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte. - The story in it / Henry James. - King Solomon of Kentucky / James Lane Allen. - Miss Tempy's watchers / Sarah Orne Jewett.- A letter and a paragraph / Henry Cuyler Bunner. - Supply and demand / O. Henry. - A dark-brown dog / Stephen Crane. - The lost phoebe / Theodore Dreiser. - Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson. - A Wagner matinée / Willa Cather. - A brown woman / James Branch Cabell.
