Publisher's Synopsis
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The Great English Short-Story Writers by Edgar Allan Poe, by Various- I. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SHORT-STORY- II. THE APPARITION OF MRS. VEAL. By Daniel Defoe (1661-1731) - III. THE MYSTERIOUS BRIDE. By James Hogg (1770-1835) - IV. THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER. By Washington Irving (1783-1859) - V. DR. HEIDEGGER'S EXPERIMENT. By Nathaniel Hawthorne (1807-1864) - SAW. THE PURLOINED LETTER. By Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) - VII. RAB AND HIS FRIENDS. By Dr. John Brown (1810-1882) -VIII. THE BOOTS AT THE HOLLY-TREE INN. By Charles Dickens (1812-1870) - IX. A STORY OF SEVEN DEVILS. By Frank R. Stockton. (1834-1902) - X. A DOG'S TALE. By Mark Twain (1835) - XI. THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT. By Bret Harte (1839-1902) - XII. THE THREE STRANGERS. By Thomas Hardy (1840) -XIII. JULIA BRIDE. By Henry James (1843) - XIV. A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT. By Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) -
