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"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's 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's ' Dracula's Guest', ' The Necklace' by Guy de Maupassant, ' The " Slapping Sal" ' by Arthur Conan Doyle, Rabindranath Tagore's ' The Postmaster', ' The Gift of Magi' by O. Henry, ' Tobermory' by H. H. Munro (Saki), ' A Little Cloud' from James Joyce's landmark collection, Dubliners, ' The Fly' by Katherine Mansfield, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-known story, ' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' .
An editorial note precedes each work."