Author:
Costain, Thomas B. (Thomas Bertram), 1885-1965, ed.
Imprint:Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1956.
Description2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Note:V.1: The general's ring / Selma Lagerlöf. - Mowgli's brothers / Rudyard Kipling. - The gift of the magi / O. Henry. - Lord Mountgrado / W. Somerset Maugham. - Music on the Muscatatuck / Jessamyn West. - The pacing goose / Jessamyn West. - The birds / Daphne du Maurier. - The man who lived four thousand years / Alexandre Dumas. - The pope's mule / Alphonse Daudet. - The story of the late Mr. Elvesham / H. G. Wells. - The blue cross / G. K. Chesterton. - Portrait of Jennie / Robert Nathan. - La grande Bretêche / Honoré de Balzac. - Love's conundrum / Anthony Hope. - The great stone face / Nathaniel Hawthorne. - Germelshausen / Friedrich Gerstäcker. - I am born (from the novel David Copperfield) / Charles Dickens. - The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving. - The age of miracles / Melville Davisson Post. - The long rifle (from the novel) / Stewart Edward White. - The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe. - The voice of Bugle Ann / MacKinley Kantor.
Note:V.2: The bridge of San Luis Rey / Thornton Wilder. - Basquerie / Eleanor Mercein Kelly. - Judith / A. E. Coppard. - A mother in Mannville / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. - Kerfol / Edith Wharton. - The last leaf / O. Henry. - The bloodhound / Arthur Train. - What the old man does in always right / Hans Christian Andersen. - The sea of grass / Conrad Richter. - The Sire de Malétroit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson. - The necklace / Guy de Maupassant. - By the waters of Babylon / Stephen Vincent Benét. - A. V. Laider / Max Beerbohm. - The pillar of fire / Percival Wilde. - The strange will (from the novel The Man with the Broken Ear) / Edmond About. - The hand at the window (from the novel Wuthering Heights) / Emily Brontë. - "National Velvet" / Enid Bagnold.
