| Description |
xii, 440 pages : illus. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents |
v. 1. Lost horizon / James Hilton -- Neighbour Rosicky / Willa Cather -- The verger / Somerset Maugham -- Jack Still / J.P. Marquand -- The silver mask / Hugh Walpole -- The return of the rangers / Kenneth Roberts -- Old man at the bridge / Ernest Hemingway -- The Cyprian cat / Dorothy L. Sayers -- The call of the wild / Jack London -- The jukebox and the Kallikaks / B.J. Chute -- The strange ride of Morrowbie Jukes / Rudyard Kipling -- She went by gently / Paul Vincent Carroll -- Tale of my Aunt Jenepher's wooing / Donn Byrne -- Through the veil / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The three strangers / Thomas Hardy -- The old man / Holloway Horn -- The rollicking god / Nunnally Johnson -- Was it a dream? / Guy de Maupassant -- The lady / Conrad Richter. v. 2. Good morning, Miss Dove / Frances Gray Patton -- Turn about / William Faulkner -- Mary Smith / Booth Tarkington -- Clerical error / James Gould Cozzens -- The suicide club / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Eighteen oak ties / Tim Pridgen -- Ultima Thule / John Galsworthy -- Anty Bligh / John Masefield -- Sam Weller makes his bow / Charles Dickens -- The Croxley master / Arthur Conan Doyle -- François Villon meets a woman / John Erskine -- Father and the cook / Clarence Day, Jr. -- The grave grass quivers / Mackinlay Kantor -- The king waits / Clemence Dane -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The bowmen / Arthur Machen -- The murder of Roger Ackroyd / Agatha Christie. |
| Summary |
Thirty short stories and five complete novels. "Lost horizon", by J. Hilton. "Call of the wild", by J. London. "The lady", by C. Richter. "Good morning, Miss Dove", by F. G. Patton. "The murder of Roger Ackroyd", by A. Christie. |
| Subject |
Fiction -- Collections.
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| Added Author |
Costain, Thomas B. (Thomas Bertram), 1885-1965, editor.
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Beecroft, John, editor.
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