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About The Book : A Volume of Selected English Short Stories (nine-teenth century) was first published in 1914, This is a second volume selected on the same principles and from almost the same period. The Sailor Uncle by Mary ann Lamb, 1764-1847; First Going to Church – by Charles Lamb, 1775-1834; The Maypole of Merry Mount, The Grey Champion, Roger Malvin’s Burial, Old Esther Dudley-Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864; The Purloined Letter, The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849; The Holly Tree - Charles Dickens, 1812-1870; A Terribly Strange Bed - William Wilkie Collins, 1824-1889; ‘The Sweetness of a Man’s Friend’ (By kind permission of Mrs . White) - by William Hale White (‘ Mark Ruther- Ford ’), 1831-1913; Ananda the Miracle Worker (By hind permission of Mr, John Lane) by Richard Garnett, 1835-1906; The Outcasts of Poker Flat, How Santa Claus came to Simpson’s Bar. by Francis Bret Harte, 1839-1902; Peppiniello (By kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co.) by Charles Grant, 1841-1889; Horseman in the Sky. by Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1913 ; Owen Wingrave (By kind permission of Messrs. Harper Bros.), Four Meetings. (By kind permission of Mr . J. B. Pinker) by Henry James, 1843-1916; The Sire de Maletroit’s Door. (By kind permission of Messrs. Chatto & Windus) by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894; The Birthday of the Infanta (By kind permission of Messrs. Methuen & Co.) by Oscar Wilde, 1856-1900; A Poor Gentleman. (By kind permission of Mr. J. B. Pinker) by George Gissing, 1857-1903; The House of Eulalie. (By kind permission of Mr. John Lane) by Henry Harland, 1861-1905; The Gift of the Magi., A Municipal Report., Madame Bo-Peep, of the Ranches. by William Sydney Porter (‘0. Henry ’ )1867-1910; The Gap in the Wall., A Witch in the Peak (By kind -permission of Mrs. Gilchrist) by R. Murray Gilchrist, 1867-1917; The Stowaway. (By kind permission of Messrs. Grant Richards, Ltd.) by Gerald Warre Cornish, 1875-1916.