The Bedside Book of Famous British Stories
de Bennett Cerf, Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle · Publicada por primera vez en 1940
The pardoner's tale / Geoffrey Chaucer -- The marvellous adventure of the sword / Sir Thomas Malory -- The apparition of Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe -- The vision of Mirza / Joseph Addison -- Asem, an eastern tale / Oliver Goldsmith -- The two drovers / Sir Walter Scott -- The iron shroud / William Mudford -- The gridiron / Samuel Lover -- The house and the brain / E. Bulwer-Lytton -- Con Cregan's legacy / Chrles Lever -- Rab and his friends / John Brown -- The half-brothers / Elizabeth C. Gaskell -- Sultan Stork / Willaim Makepeace Thackeray -- A christmas card / Charles Dickens -- Malachi's cove / Anthony Trollope -- The punishment of Shahpesh, the Persian, on Khipil, the builder / George Meredith -- The three strangers / Thomas Hardy -- Story of a piebald horse / W.H. Hudson -- Sire de Malétroit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson -- A lodging for the night / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The story of Dr. MacLure / John Watson (Ian Maclaren) -- Faith / R. Cunninghame Graham -- The clerk's quest / George Moore. The birthday of the infanta / Oscar Wilde -- Youth / Joseph Conrad -- The captain of the "Ullswater" / Morley Roberts -- [The adventure of the speckled band](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262561W) / A. Conan Doyle -- The courting of T'nowhead's bell / Sir James Matthew Barrie -- The babus of Nayanjore / Sir Rabindranath Tagore -- Philippa's fox-hunt / E. Somerville and Martin Ross -- The mezzotint / Montague Rhodes James -- "Hey diddle diddle, the cat ..." / Eden Phillpotts -- The adventure of the kind Mr. Smith / William J. Locke -- The roll-call of the reef / Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch -- That brute Simmons / Arthur Morrison -- The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs -- The doll in the pink silk dress / Leonard Merrick -- The drums of the fore and aft / Rudyard Kipling -- The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling -- Red Hanrahan / William Butler Yeats -- The country of the blind / H.G. Wells -- Mary with the high hand / Arnold Bennett -- The apple-tree / John Galsworthy. Action / C.E. Montague -- The valley of the beasts / Algernon Blackwood -- Mrs. Packletide's tiger / Saki -- The happy hypocrite / Max Beerbohm -- The derelict / H.M. Tomlinson -- Red / W. Somerset Maugham -- The hammer of God / G.K. Chesterton -- The kings of Orion / John Buchan -- The stranger in the village / Sir Philip Gibbs -- The higgler / A.E. Coppard -- The western island / John Masefield -- The sword of Welleran / Lord Dunsany -- The celestial omnibus / E.M. Forster -- The log of the "Evening Star" / Alfred Noyes -- Jeeves and the song of songs / P.G. Wodehouse -- Three lovers who lost / James Stephens -- The dead / James Joyce -- Purple and fine linen / May Edginton -- Mr. Oddy / Sir Hugh Walpole -- A busman's holiday / Francis Brett Young -- A sleeping draft / Weston Martyr -- The Prussian officer / D.H. Lawrence -- Fish are such liars / Roland Pertwee -- A source of irritation / Stacy Aumonier -- The chink and the child / Thomas Burke -- Life of Ma Parker / Katherine Mansfield -- A day in a woman's life / Sheila Kaye-Smith -- Rivers of Damascus / Donn Byrne. The Gioconda smile / Aldous Huxley -- The cavalier of the streets / Michael Arlen -- The old hunter / Liam O'Flaherty -- The white cottage / L.A.G. Strong -- The trapper's mates / Henry Williamson -- The forty-third division / Ralph Bates -- The eyes / Thomas Owen Beachcroft -- The betting Scotchman / Anonymous -- Bella Fleace gave a party / Evelyn Waugh.
