Greatest Short Stories (P. F. Collier & Son)

Volume 1

(transcription project)

• Author:Washington Irving / Rip Van Winkle (Rip Van Winkle (Irving))
• Author:Edgar Allan Poe / Murders in the Rue Morgue (The Murders in the Rue Morgue)
• Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne / The great stone face (The Great Stone Face)
• Author:Charles Fenno Hoffman / The Man in the Reservoir
• Author:Fitz-James O'Brien / Diamond lens (The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 1/Number 3/The Diamond Lens)
• Author:Edward Everett Hale / Man without a country (The Man without a Country)
• Author:Fitz-Hugh Ludlow / Brace of boys
• Author:John Townsend Trowbridge / Man who stole a meeting-house
• Author:William Henry Harrison Murray / Ride with a mad horse in a freight-car
• Author:Rebecca Harding Davis / Balacchi brothers
• Author:Bayard Taylor / Who was she?

Based off of Short story classics (American), Volume One (1905), with the addition of "Who was she?"

Volume 1 (American authors)

Replaces "The great stone face" and "Brace of boys" with

• Author:Frank R. Stockton / The lady or the tiger (The lady, or the tiger? and other stories/The Lady, or the Tiger?)
• Author:Theodore Dreiser / The lost Phoebe
• Author:Ring Lardner / Haircut

Volume 2

• Author:Alfred Henry Lewis / How the Raven Died
• Author:John William De Forest / The Brigade Commander
• Author:Augustus Allen Hayes (1837-1892) / The Denver Express
• Author:Charles Heber Clark as Max Adeler / Frictional Electricity
• Author:Frank R. Stockton / My Terminal Moraine
• Author:Lorimer Stoddard / The Indian's Hand
• Author:Elia W. Peattie / A Michigan Man
• W. C. Morrow (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7945392) / The Inmate of the Dungeon
• Author:Harold Frederic / Brother Sebastian's Friendship
• Author:Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen / Good-For-Nothing
• Author:Ambrose Bierce / The Damned Thing (The Damned Thing)
• Clara Morris / The Wild Horse of Tartary
• Edwin Lefevre / The Tipster
• James Oliver Curwood / Thomas Jefferson Brown

Volume 2 (American authors)

Drop Lewis, Adeler, Stoddard, Peattie, Morrow, Frederic, Boyesen, Morris, Lefevre, Curwood

• Stephen Crane / An Experiment in Misery
• Nathaniel Hawthorne / The Ambitious Guest
• Edgar Allen Poe / The Gold Bug
• Bret Harte / The Luck of Roaring Camp
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich / Marjorie Daw
• Edna Ferber / They Brought their Women
• Dorthy Parker / Big Blonde

Volume 3

• O. Henry / Phonograph and the graft
• Harris / Brother rabbit's cradle
• Altsheler / After the battle
• Deland / "Many waters"
• Ade / "To make a Hoosier holiday"
• Kelly / Christmas present for a lady
• Grant / Against his judgment
• Long / Purple-eyes
• Spearman / Run of the yellow mail
• Colton / Spiral stone
• Roberts / Jean Michaud's little ship
• Kingsley / At the end of his rope
• Tracy / Lotus eaters
• Harland / Rosemary for remembrance
• Adams / Such as walk in darkness
• Finnegan / Out of the storm

Volume 4

• Tarkington / Mrs. Protheroe
• Spears / Silver Lake panic
• Cutting / Happiest time
• Rives / In the wake of war
• Sawyer / Tall one and the wee one
• Roberts / Captain Pike
• Dunne / Mr. Dooley on the pursuit of riches
• MacCreagh / Everett, Commissioner of Justice
• Meedham / Polite horse
• Newton / Charge
• Boltwood / Wedding Bob Dean ran
• Curwood / His first penitent
• Douglas / Unseen hands
• Scoville / Churching of Bankson
• Lathrop / In each other's shoes
• Friedman / Return
• Wells / Bondage

Volume 5

• Nordau / Deliverance
• Lagerlof / Outlaws
• Castelnuovo / Lost letter
• Teleshov / Duel
• Dumas, Fils / Hanging at La Piroche
• von Riehl / Castle Neideck
• Chekhov / Work of art
• Maupassant / Bit of string
• Doyle / Scandal in Bohemia
• Strindberg / Love and bread
• Stevenson / Suicide club
• Baumbach / Fountain of youth
• Gorki / Boless --Fogazzaro / Silver crucifix
• Gautier / Mummy's foot
• D'Annunzio / End of Candia
• Scribe / Price of a life

Volume 6

• Gaboriau / Accursed house
• Gogol / Cloak
• Verga / Cavalleria Rusticana
• Bjornson / Railroad and churchyard
• Janin / Vendean marriage
• Heyse / Young girl of Treppi
• Stevenson / Sire de Maletroit's door
• Dostoievski / Thief
• Sacher-Masoch / Thou shalt not kill
• Musset / Beauty spot
• Sudermann / A New-Year's Eve confession
• de Amicis / Drummer
• Tolstoi / Long exile
• Reuter / Bric-a-brac and destinies.

Volume 7

• Poushkin / Queen of spades
• Balzac / Unknown masterpiece
• Doyle / My friend the murderer
• Schnitzler / Dead are silent
• Merimee / How the redoubt was taken
• Chekhov / Slanderer
• Chatrian / Dean's watch
• Zschokke / Broken cup
• About / Which was the madman?
• Turgenev / Rendezvous
• Victor / Napoleon and Pope Pius VII
• Andreiev / Valia
• Coppee / Lost child
• Kipling / Man who would be king

Volume 8

• Kipling / Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney
• Maupassant / Necklace
• Garshin / Signal
• France / Putois
• Barrie / Courting of T'nowhead's Bell
• Eschstruth / Gray nun
• Huysmans / Sac-au-dos
• Quiller-Couch / Roll-call of the reef
• Niese / Story of the little Mamsell
• Dumas / A Bal Masque
• Wells / Red room
• Zola / Fete at Coqueville
• Wildenbruch / Good blood