Greatest Short Stories (P. F. Collier & Son)

Volume 1

 * Author:Washington Irving / Rip Van Winkle (Rip Van Winkle (Irving))
 * Author:Edgar Allan Poe / Murders in the Rue Morgue (The Murders in the Rue Morgue)
 * Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne / The great stone face (The Great Stone Face)
 * Author:Charles Fenno Hoffman / The Man in the Reservoir
 * Author:Fitz-James O'Brien / Diamond lens (The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 1/Number 3/The Diamond Lens)
 * Author:Edward Everett Hale / Man without a country (The Man without a Country)
 * Author:Fitz-Hugh Ludlow / Brace of boys
 * Author:John Townsend Trowbridge / Man who stole a meeting-house
 * Author:William Henry Harrison Murray / Ride with a mad horse in a freight-car
 * Author:Rebecca Harding Davis / Balacchi brothers
 * Author:Bayard Taylor / Who was she?


 * Based off of Short story classics (American), Volume One (1905), with the addition of "Who was she?"

Volume 1 (American authors)

 * Replaces "The great stone face" and "Brace of boys" with


 * Author:Frank R. Stockton / The lady or the tiger (The lady, or the tiger? and other stories/The Lady, or the Tiger?)
 * Author:Theodore Dreiser / The lost Phoebe
 * Author:Ring Lardner / Haircut

Volume 2

 * Author:Alfred Henry Lewis / How the Raven Died
 * Author:John William De Forest / The Brigade Commander
 * Author:Augustus Allen Hayes (1837-1892) / The Denver Express
 * Author:Charles Heber Clark as Max Adeler / Frictional Electricity
 * Author:Frank R. Stockton / My Terminal Moraine
 * Author:Lorimer Stoddard / The Indian's Hand
 * Author:Elia W. Peattie / A Michigan Man
 * W. C. Morrow (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7945392) / The Inmate of the Dungeon
 * Author:Harold Frederic / Brother Sebastian's Friendship
 * Author:Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen / Good-For-Nothing
 * Author:Ambrose Bierce / The Damned Thing (The Damned Thing)
 * Clara Morris / The Wild Horse of Tartary
 * Edwin Lefevre / The Tipster
 * James Oliver Curwood / Thomas Jefferson Brown

Volume 2 (American authors)

 * Drop Lewis, Adeler, Stoddard, Peattie, Morrow, Frederic, Boyesen, Morris, Lefevre, Curwood


 * Stephen Crane / An Experiment in Misery
 * Nathaniel Hawthorne / The Ambitious Guest
 * Edgar Allen Poe / The Gold Bug
 * Bret Harte / The Luck of Roaring Camp
 * Thomas Bailey Aldrich / Marjorie Daw
 * Edna Ferber / They Brought their Women
 * Dorthy Parker / Big Blonde

Volume 3

 * O. Henry / Phonograph and the graft
 * Harris / Brother rabbit's cradle
 * Altsheler / After the battle
 * Deland / "Many waters"
 * Ade / "To make a Hoosier holiday"
 * Kelly / Christmas present for a lady
 * Grant / Against his judgment
 * Long / Purple-eyes
 * Spearman / Run of the yellow mail
 * Colton / Spiral stone
 * Roberts / Jean Michaud's little ship
 * Kingsley / At the end of his rope
 * Tracy / Lotus eaters
 * Harland / Rosemary for remembrance
 * Adams / Such as walk in darkness
 * Finnegan / Out of the storm

Volume 4

 * Tarkington / Mrs. Protheroe
 * Spears / Silver Lake panic
 * Cutting / Happiest time
 * Rives / In the wake of war
 * Sawyer / Tall one and the wee one
 * Roberts / Captain Pike
 * Dunne / Mr. Dooley on the pursuit of riches
 * MacCreagh / Everett, Commissioner of Justice
 * Meedham / Polite horse
 * Newton / Charge
 * Boltwood / Wedding Bob Dean ran
 * Curwood / His first penitent
 * Douglas / Unseen hands
 * Scoville / Churching of Bankson
 * Lathrop / In each other's shoes
 * Friedman / Return
 * Wells / Bondage

Volume 5

 * Nordau / Deliverance
 * Lagerlof / Outlaws
 * Castelnuovo / Lost letter
 * Teleshov / Duel
 * Dumas, Fils / Hanging at La Piroche
 * von Riehl / Castle Neideck
 * Chekhov / Work of art
 * Maupassant / Bit of string
 * Doyle / Scandal in Bohemia
 * Strindberg / Love and bread
 * Stevenson / Suicide club
 * Baumbach / Fountain of youth
 * Gorki / Boless --Fogazzaro / Silver crucifix
 * Gautier / Mummy's foot
 * D'Annunzio / End of Candia
 * Scribe / Price of a life

Volume 6

 * Gaboriau / Accursed house
 * Gogol / Cloak
 * Verga / Cavalleria Rusticana
 * Bjornson / Railroad and churchyard
 * Janin / Vendean marriage
 * Heyse / Young girl of Treppi
 * Stevenson / Sire de Maletroit's door
 * Dostoievski / Thief
 * Sacher-Masoch / Thou shalt not kill
 * Musset / Beauty spot
 * Sudermann / A New-Year's Eve confession
 * de Amicis / Drummer
 * Tolstoi / Long exile
 * Reuter / Bric-a-brac and destinies.

Volume 7

 * Poushkin / Queen of spades
 * Balzac / Unknown masterpiece
 * Doyle / My friend the murderer
 * Schnitzler / Dead are silent
 * Merimee / How the redoubt was taken
 * Chekhov / Slanderer
 * Chatrian / Dean's watch
 * Zschokke / Broken cup
 * About / Which was the madman?
 * Turgenev / Rendezvous
 * Victor / Napoleon and Pope Pius VII
 * Andreiev / Valia
 * Coppee / Lost child
 * Kipling / Man who would be king

Volume 8

 * Kipling / Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney
 * Maupassant / Necklace
 * Garshin / Signal
 * France / Putois
 * Barrie / Courting of T'nowhead's Bell
 * Eschstruth / Gray nun
 * Huysmans / Sac-au-dos
 * Quiller-Couch / Roll-call of the reef
 * Niese / Story of the little Mamsell
 * Dumas / A Bal Masque
 * Wells / Red room
 * Zola / Fete at Coqueville
 * Wildenbruch / Good blood