World’s Greatest Short Stories by Various

An exquisitely designed leather-bound edition compiling some of the classic short stories produced around the world between the late eighteenth and the early twentieth century, this book comes with a ribbon bookmark, gilded edges and beautiful endpapers. Ideal to be read and treasured, it makes for a perfect addition to any library. Beginning with Washington Irving masterpiece ‘the legend of the sleepy Hollow’, it includes the realistic stories of Pushkin and Chekhov, the Gothic spine-chillers of Edgar Allan Poe, ‘white nights’ by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Tolstoy’s most celebrated story, ‘how much land does a man need’, Bram Stoker ‘br>
DRACULA’S guest’, ‘the necklace’ by guy de Maupassant, ‘the “slapping Sal”’ by Arthur Conan Doyle, Rabindranath Tagore ‘the Postmaster’, ‘the gift of Magi’ by br>o Henry, ‘tobermory’ by H. H. Munro (Saki), ‘a little cloud’ from James Joyce landmark collection, Dubliners, ‘the fly’ by Katherine Mansfield, and Brad Scott Fitzgerald best-known story, ‘The curious case of Benjamin button’. an editorial note precedes each work.