SHORT STORY CLASSICS
Reading edition
(FOREIGN)
VOLUME ONE RUSSIAN
Edited by William Patten
With an Introduction and Notes
P. F. COLLIER & SON NEW YORK
Copyright 1907 By P. F. Collier & Son
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CONTENTS—VOLUME I RUSSIAN
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THE QUEEN OF SPADES Alexander Sergeievitch Poushkin 3
THE CLOAK Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol 21
THE RENDEZVOUS Iván Turgenev 67
THE COUNTING-HOUSE Iván Turgenev 81
THE THIEF Feodor Mikailovitch Dostoievski 109
THE LONG EXILE Count Leo Nikolaievitch Tolstoi 137
EASTER NIGHT Vladímir Galaktionovitch Korolénko 153
THE SIGNAL Vsevolod Mikailovitch Garshin 165
THE CURSE OF FAME Ignatiy Nikolaievitch Potapenko 183
A WORK OF ART Anton Pavlovitch Chekhov 217
THE SLANDERER Anton Pavlovitch Chekhov 223
FAUST Eugène Nikolaievitch Chirikov 231
THE DUEL Nikolai Dmítrievitch Teleshov 263
BOLESS Alexei Maximovitch Pyeshkov (Maxim Gorki) 273
THE LOVE OF A SCENE-PAINTER “Skitalitz” 285
VALIA Leonid Andreiev 309
CONTENTS—VOLUME II ITALIAN
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THE LOST LETTER Enrico Castelnuovo 329
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA Giovanni Verga 347
THE SILVER CRUCIFIX Antonio Fogazzaro 359
THE LITTLE SARDINIAN DRUMMER Edmondo de Amicis 375
LULU’S TRIUMPH Matilda Serao 387
THE END OF CANDIA Gabriele d’Annunzio 411
SIGNORA SPERANZA Luigi Pirandello 427
TWO MEN AND A WOMAN Grazia Deledda 481
SCANDINAVIAN
RAILROAD AND CHURCHYARD Björnstjerne Björnson 511
BJÖRN SIVERTSEN’S WEDDING TRIP Holger Drachmann 547
JALO THE TROTTER Johann Jacob Ahrenberg 567
THE PLAGUE AT BERGAMO Jens Peter Jacobsen 583
KAREN Alexander Lange Kielland 595
LOVE AND BREAD Jean August Strindberg 605
IRENE HOLM Hermann Joachim Bang 619
THE OUTLAWS Selma Lagerlöf 637
CONTENTS—VOLUME III GERMAN
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THE BROKEN CUP Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke 663
CASTLE NEIDECK Wilhelm Heinrich von Riehl 691
THE YOUNG GIRL OF TREPPI Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse 739
THE STONEBREAKERS Ferdinand von Saar 793
THOU SHALT NOT KILL Leopold von Sacher-Masoch 839
THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH Rudolf Baumbach 849
GOOD BLOOD Ernst von Wildenbruch 863
DELIVERANCE Max Simon Nordau 903
A NEW-YEAR’S EVE CONFESSION Hermann Sudermann 917
BRIC-A-BRAC AND DESTINIES Gabriele Reuter 929
THE FUR COAT Ludwig Fulda 939
THE DEAD ARE SILENT Arthur Schnitzler 955
MARGRET’S PILGRIMAGE Clara Viebig 981
CONTENTS—VOLUME IV FRENCH
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THE UNKNOWN MASTERPIECE Honoré de Balzac 1007
THE PRICE OF A LIFE Augustin Eugène Scribe 1049
NAPOLEON AND POPE PIUS VII Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny 1067
CLAUDE GUEUX Victor Marie Hugo 1083
A BAL MASQUÉ Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie Dumas 1105
HOW THE REDOUBT WAS TAKEN Prosper Mérimée 1121
THE VENDEAN MARRIAGE Jules Gabriel Janin 1131
THE MARQUISE George Sand 1149
THE BEAUTY-SPOT Alfred Louis Charles de Musset 1185
THE MUMMY’S FOOT Théophile Gautier 1237
CIRCÉ Octave Feuillet 1257
THE HANGING AT LA PIROCHE Alexandre Dumas, Fils 1269
THE DEAN’S WATCH Erckmann-Chatrian 1289
AT THE PALAIS DE JUSTICE Alphonse Daudet 1319
BOUM-BOUM Jules Claretie 1327
CONTENTS—VOLUME V FRENCH
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LA BRETONNE André Theuriet 1339
WHICH WAS THE MADMAN? Edmond About 1349
THE GRAND MARRIAGE Ludovic Halévy 1379
THE ACCURSED HOUSE Émile Gaboriau 1415
THE FÊTE AT COQUEVILLE Émile Zola 1427
THE LOST CHILD François Coppée 1471
PUTOIS Anatole France 1495
SAC-AU-DOS Joris Karl Huysmans 1515
“BONJOUR, MONSIEUR” Jean Richepin 1559
THE BIT OF STRING Guy de Maupassant 1571
THE NECKLACE Guy de Maupassant 1581
THE WALL OPPOSITE Pierre Loti 1595
THE ANCESTOR Paul Bourget 1605
WHEN HE WAS A LITTLE BOY Henri Lavedan 1639
A GENTLEMAN FINDS A WATCH Georges Courteline 1651
A YOUNG GIRL’S DIARY Marcel Prévost 1659
THE SIGN OF THE KEY AND THE CROSS Henri de Régnier 1671
THE TELEGRAPH OPERATOR Alphonse Allais 1685