The Treasury of English Short Stories

by Nancy Sullivan

ACE 1566191254 (ISBN13: 9781566191258)

The Reeve's Tale / Geoffrey Chaucer --
The Apparition of Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe --
The Wedding of Jenny Distaff / Richard Steele --
A Story of an Heir / Joseph Addison --
The Mysterious Bride / James Hogg --
The Tapestried Chamber or The Lady in the Sacque / Sir Walter Scott --
The Half-Brothers / Elizabeth Gaskell --
Snobs and Marriage / William Makepeace Thackeray --
The Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn / Charles Dickens --
The White Cat of Drumgunniol / J.S. Le Fanu --
Returning Home / Anthony Trollope --
The Dead Hand / Wilkie Collins --
A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four / Thomas Hardy --
The Story of a Piebald Horse / W.H. Hudson --
A Lodging for the Night / Robert Louis Stevenson --
The Birthday of the Infanta / Oscar Wilde --
Il Conde / Joseph Conrad --
The New Catacomb / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --
Mary Postgate / Rudyard Kipling --
Mr. Brisher's Treasure / H.G. Wells --
The Broken Boot / John Galsworthy --
Tobermory / Saki (H.H. Munro) --
The Creatures / Walter de la Mare --
The Colonel's Lady / W. Somerset Maugham --
Arabesque- The Mouse / A.E. Coppard --
The Boarding House / James Moyce --
The Duchess and the Jeweller / Virginia Woolf. Bachelors / Hugh Walpole --
The Prussian Officer / D.H. Lawrence --
New Women / Joyce Cary --
Bliss / Katherine Mansfield --
Idenborough / Sylvia Townsend Warner --
Fard / Aldous Huxley --
Spring Sowing / Liam O'Flaherty --
Hand in Glove / Elizabeth Bowen --
Sinners / Sean O'Faolain --
The Spree / V.S. Pritchett --
A Wedding-Dress / Morley Callaghan --
Judas / Frank O'Connor --
A Drink in the Passage / Alan Paton --
Mortmain / Graham Greene --
The Spring Hat / H.E. Bates --
Under the Banyan Tree / R.K. Narayan --
The Old Man / Daphne du Maurier --
Eterna / Mary Lavin --
Willy-Wagtails by Moonlight / Patrick White --
The True Story / Dylan Thomas --
Royal Jelly / Roald Dahl --
The Fathers' Daughters / Muriel Spark --
Two Potters / Doris Lessing --
The Confirmation Suit / Brendan Behan --
Native Country / Nadine Gordimer --
Prizes / Janet Frame --
Timoshenko / Iain Crichton Smith --
The Ballroom of Romance / William Trevor --
A Day in the Country / Dan Jacobson --
Weekend / Shirley Hazzard --
Prue / Alice Munro --
Legend for a Painting / Julia O'Faolain --
Threnody / Fay Weldon --
Cords / Edna O'Brien --
Rape Fantasies / Margaret Atwood --
The Courtship of Mr. Lyon / Angela Carter --
Secrets / Bernard MacLaverty --
Night in Tunisia / Neil Jordan.

Genres: Short Stories, Classics, Fiction

672 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Nancy Sullivan was a poet and emeritus professor of English at Rhode Island College. She taught additionally at Brown University.

It was Tom Chandler, poet laureate of Rhode Island emeritus, who described Sullivan in lofty terms in a 2004 column for The Providence Journal: “We are a place of many hidden treasures, both in our land and in our people — especially our people,” Chandler wrote. “One of Rhode Island's literary treasures is poet Nancy Sullivan, of West Kingston, a nationally honored writer for more than four decades.”

Poetry fellow National Endowment for the Arts, 1976-1977; named to Hunter College Hall of Fame, New York City, 1998. Member Poets House, Poetry Society of America, Humanities Forum Rhode Island.
Bachelor, Hunter College, 1951. Master of Arts, University Rhode Island, 1953. Doctor of Philosophy, University Connecticut, 1963.