{"product_id":"2940150703292","title":"The Best Short Stories Chosen in 1914 by the most prominent authors of the day Volume III","description":"Have you read the 50 best short stories of all time? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1914, a critical moment in literature, The New York Times asked the most highly regarded authors of the day to name the best short story in the English language. Many of their responses have maintained consistent fame through time. Others have become hidden gems. All are essential literary experiences that will make you love to read again. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese masterpieces are collected here for the first time, masterfully copyedited and with an introduction by Martin Hill Ortiz, PhD. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume includes:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eThe Turn of the Screw by Henry James\u003cbr\u003eThe Haunted and the Haunters; Or, the House and the Brain by Edward Bulwer-Lytton\u003cbr\u003eA Municipal Report by O. Henry\u003cbr\u003eThe Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale\u003cbr\u003eThe Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson\u003cbr\u003eThe Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe\u003cbr\u003eThe Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens\u003cbr\u003eThe Story of Richard Doubledick by Charles Dickens\u003cbr\u003eThe Belled Buzzard by Irvin S. Cobb\u003cbr\u003eAn Incident by Sarah Barnwell Elliott\u003cbr\u003eA Journey by Edith Wharton\u003cbr\u003eBeyond the Pale by Rudyard Kipling\u003cbr\u003eWithout Benefit of Clergy by Rudyard Kipling\u003cbr\u003eThe Stolen Story by Jesse Lynch Williams\u003cbr\u003eThe Dead by James Joyce\u003cbr\u003eBiographies of the Selectors and the Selected Authors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome of the stories you'll find in Volumes I and II, already available:\u003cbr\u003eThe Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte\u003cbr\u003eHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad\u003cbr\u003eThe Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling\u003cbr\u003eA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens\u003cbr\u003eThe Ring of Thoth by Arthur Conan Doyle\u003cbr\u003eThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain\u003cbr\u003eThe Door in the Wall by H. G. Wells\u003cbr\u003eStrange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson\u003cbr\u003eRip Van Winkle by Washington Irving\u003cbr\u003eThe Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe\u003cbr\u003eThe Necklace by Guy de Maupassant","brand":"Rook's Page Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47102113644784,"sku":"2940150703292","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150703292_p0.jpg?v=1763751691","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150703292","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}