Classic Short Stories

This volume presents an anthology of classic short stories: brief prose fictions by established writers, typically ranging across the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and across British, American, and sometimes European authors. The pieces are independent, not chapters of one novel. Recurring kinds include social comedy, ghost and crime tales, and studies of a single crisis in an ordinary life. Settings run from drawing rooms and country houses to ships, towns, and border country. The book is a general gathering of short fiction in the received classic manner rather than a themed or national survey.

Black three-volume slipcase decorated and titled in red and gold, repeating the binding design. Sixteen leaves of illustrations 23 stories. Pale blue-green cloth decorated in blue, red and gold, green endleaves. Sixteen leaves of 21 stories by Russian masters ranging from Pushkin to Solzhenitsyn. Pale red cloth decorated in dark red, orange and gold, red endleaves. Sixteen leaves of 28 stories. Orange cloth decorated in dark red, red and gold, brown endleaves.