„24 More Tales You Will Never Forget“

Twenty four more remarkable short stories await you in this book – stories that you will never forget, or remember for a long time. Their secret is that each of them touches a string in your heart. Mythological or realistic, classical or modern, these tales will emerge unexpectedly in your mind to experience them again. Some of them will summon smiles, some will bring tears to your eyes, and others will make you want to be in love again.

“A good short story… can stay with you for much longer than a novel. It can startle, ignite, illuminate and move in a way that the longer format cannot. It is often troubling, often frightening or subversive. It provokes questions, whereas most novels tend to try to answer them.”
– Joanne Harris

Contents

I.

Orpheus and Eurydice........................................................ 9
Emilie Kip Baker
Federigo’s Falcon............................................................. 14
Giovanni Boccaccio
The Devoted Friend ......................................................... 21
Oscar Wilde
The Brave Tin Soldier ..................................................... 35
Hans Christian Andersen

II.

El Verdugo ...................................................................... 40
Honoré de Balzac
Wakefield......................................................................... 53
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Lagoon ...................................................................... 64
Joseph Conrad
Hygeia at the Solito.......................................................... 81
O. Henry

The Purple Dress..............................................................98
O. Henry
The Skylight Room........................................................105
O. Henry
Aloha Oe ........................................................................113
Jack London
Cafard.............................................................................122
John Galsworthy
Her Letters .....................................................................130
Kate Chopin
Tobermory......................................................................140
Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
The Chink and the Child................................................150
Thomas Burke
The Boy Who Drew Cats...............................................164
Lafcadio Hearn
The Door in the Wall .....................................................168
H. G. Wells
The Doll’s House ...........................................................189
Katherine Mansfield
The Marseillaise ............................................................198
Leonid Andreyev
The Sentimental Mortgage.............................................202
Arthur Lynch
Mrs. Manstey’s View.....................................................208
Edith Wharton

A Wagner Matinée.........................................................221
Willa Cather
The Far and the Near......................................................231
Thomas Wolfe
The Lily of St Pierre ......................................................236
Damon Runyon
Biographcal Notes .........................................................251