Modern Short Stories

About this eBook

Contributor

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910

Title

Modern Short Stories: A Book for High Schools

Credits

Produced by deaurider, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Short stories

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 62942

Release Date

August 16, 2020

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MODERN SHORT STORIES
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.INTRODUCTION — I OUR NATIONAL READING — II THE DEFINITION — III THE FAMILY TREE OF THE SHORT STORY — IV A GOOD STORY — V WHAT SHALL I DO WITH THIS BOOK? — VI WHERE TO FIND SOME GOOD SHORT STORIES — VII SOME INTERESTING SHORT STORIES — VIII WHAT TO READ ABOUT THE SHORT STORY
5. 5.THE ADVENTURES OF SIMON AND SUSANNA [1] By JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
6. 6.THE CROW-CHILD By MARY MAPES DODGE
7. 7.THE SOUL OF THE GREAT BELL [2] By LAFCADIO HEARN
8. 8.THE TEN TRAILS By ERNEST THOMPSON SETON
9. 9.WHERE LOVE IS, THERE GOD IS ALSO [3] By COUNT LEO TOLSTOI
10. 10.WOOD-LADIES [5] By PERCEVAL GIBBON
11. 11.ON THE FEVER SHIP [6] By RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
12. 12.A SOURCE OF IRRITATION By STACY AUMONIER
13. 13.MOTI GUJ—MUTINEER By RUDYARD KIPLING
14. 14.GULLIVER THE GREAT By WALTER A. DYER
15. 15.SONNY’S SCHOOLIN’ By RUTH McENERY STUART A Monologue
16. 16.HER FIRST HORSE SHOW By DAVID GRAY
17. 17.MY HUSBAND’S BOOK [7] By James Matthew Barrie
18. 18.WAR By JACK LONDON — II
19. 19.THE BATTLE OF THE MONSTERS By Morgan Robertson
20. 20.A DILEMMA By S. WEIR MITCHELL
21. 21.THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE [8] By A. CONAN DOYLE
22. 22.ONE HUNDRED IN THE DARK By Owen Johnson
23. 23.A RETRIEVED REFORMATION [9] By O. HENRY
24. 24.BROTHER LEO By PHYLLIS BOTTOME
25. 25.A FIGHT WITH DEATH [10] By IAN MACLAREN
26. 26.THE DÀN-NAN-RÒN [11] By FIONA MACLEOD — II
27. 27.CRITICAL COMMENT — THE ADVENTURES OF SIMON AND SUSANNA By JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS — THE CROW-CHILD By MARY MAPES DODGE — THE SOUL OF THE GREAT BELL By LAFCADIO HEARN — THE TEN TRAILS By ERNEST THOMPSON SETON — WHERE LOVE IS, THERE GOD IS ALSO By COUNT LEO TOLSTOI — WOOD-LADIES By PERCEVAL GIBBON — ON THE FEVER SHIP By RICHARD HARDING DAVIS — A SOURCE OF IRRITATION By STACY AUMONIER — MOTI GUJ—MUTINEER By RUDYARD KIPLING — GULLIVER THE GREAT By WALTER A. DYER — SONNY’S SCHOOLIN’ By RUTH McENERY STUART — HER FIRST HORSE SHOW By DAVID GRAY — MY HUSBAND’S BOOK By JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE — WAR By JACK LONDON — THE BATTLE OF THE MONSTERS By MORGAN ROBERTSON — A DILEMMA By S. WEIR MITCHELL — THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE By A. CONAN DOYLE — ONE HUNDRED IN THE DARK By OWEN JOHNSON — A RETRIEVED REFORMATION By O. HENRY — BROTHER LEO By PHYLLIS BOTTOME — A FIGHT WITH DEATH By IAN MACLAREN — THE DÀN-NAN-RÒN By FIONA MACLEOD
28. 28.SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS FOR CLASS USE — THE ADVENTURES OF SIMON AND SUSANNA — THE CROW CHILD — THE SOUL OF THE GREAT BELL — THE TEN TRAILS — WHERE LOVE IS, THERE GOD IS ALSO — WOOD LADIES — ON THE FEVER SHIP — A SOURCE OF IRRITATION — MOTI GUJ—MUTINEER — GULLIVER THE GREAT — SONNY’S SCHOOLIN’ — HER FIRST HORSE SHOW — MY HUSBAND’S BOOK — WAR — THE BATTLE OF THE MONSTERS — A DILEMMA — THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE — ONE HUNDRED IN THE DARK — A RETRIEVED REFORMATION — BROTHER LEO — A FIGHT WITH DEATH — THE DÀN-NAN-RÒN

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