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A Treasury of Outstanding Short Stories

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"Fireside Reader" was published by The Readers Digest Association in 1978 - Pleasantville, New York, it has 639 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: Fireside Reader
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 639
  • Publisher: The Readers Digest Association
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  • Publish Location: Pleasantville, New York

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  • Format: Hardcover
  • Pagination: 639p.

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"Fireside Reader" Table Of Contents:

  • 1- The bottle imp / Robert Louis Stevenson --
  • 2- An end to dreams / Stephen Vincent Benét --
  • 3- Parson's pleasure / Roald Dahl --
  • 4- The bride comes to yellow sky / Stephen Crane --
  • 5- The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs --
  • 6- The foster portfolio / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. --
  • 7- The poor relation's story / Charles Dickens --
  • 8- The real thing / Henry James --
  • 9- The hostage / C.S. Forester --
  • 10- Rip van Winkle / Washington Irving --
  • 11- The girls in their summer dresses / Irwin Shaw --
  • 12- The street that got mislaid / Patrick Waddington --
  • 13- A piece of steak / Jack London --
  • 14- The secret ingredient / Paul Gallico --
  • 15- The hawk / Liam O'Flaherty --
  • 16- The apprentice / Dorothy Canfield Fisher --
  • 17- A sick call / Morley Callaghan --
  • 18- A terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins --
  • 19- The loss / Gillian Tindall --
  • 20- The mouse / Saki (H.H. Munro) --
  • 21- Tickets, please / D.H. Lawrence --
  • 22- The country of the blind / H.G. Wells --
  • 23- The gifts of war / Margaret Drabble --
  • 24- The skedule / H.H. Wilson --
  • 25- Well I'm -! / G.E.M. Skues --
  • 26- The weather breeder / Merrill Denison --
  • 27- In and out of the houses / Elizabeth Taylor --
  • 28- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner --
  • 29- The test / Brendan Gill --
  • 30- The hammer of God / G.K. Chesterton --
  • 31- The pocketbook game / Alice Childress --
  • 32- The wedding gift / Thomas Raddall --
  • 33- The adventure of the speckled band / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --
  • 34- The pit and the pendulum / Edgar Allan Poe --
  • 35- The boy who drew cats / Lafcadio Ahearn --
  • 36- The little governess / Katherine Mansfield --
  • 37- Running wolf / Algernon Blackwood --
  • 38- The peach stone / Paul Horgan --
  • 39- Red / W. Somerset Maugham --
  • 40- The fiery wooing of Mordred / P.G. Wodehouse --
  • 41- A sunrise on the veld / Doris Lessing --
  • 42- The ghost / Richard Hughes --
  • 43- The birds / Daphne du Maurier --
  • 44- The story of the widow's son / Mary Lavin --
  • 45- The train from Rhodesia / Nadine Gordimer --
  • 46- Dygartsbush / Walter D. Edmonds --The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter --
  • 47- Winter's morning / Len Deighton --
  • 48- The lady on the gray / John Collier --
  • 49- The wind and the snow of winter / Walter Van Tilburg Clark.

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