The Rinehart Book of Short Stories

by C.L. Cline

The fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mademoiselle Fifi / Guy De Maupassant
The Sire de Malétroit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson
The kiss / Anton Chekhov
The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling
The open boat / Stephen Crane
The lagoon / Joseph Conrad
Mother / Sherwood Anderson
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
Clay / James Joyce
Her first ball / Katherine Mansfield
The Devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét
The colonel's lady / Somerset Maugham
Flight / John Steinbeck --Spotted horses / William Faulkner
The catbird seat / James Thurber
Petrified man / Eudora Welty

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction, Classics

307 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1952

Reviews

[Israel · Rating 3 out of 5]

I picked this book up in one of those free roadside libraries. The binding and cover are a little beat up but there are some quality short stories in here. Poe, Hawthorne, De Maupassant, Steinbeck, and Thurber are just some of he wonderful authors that I had the chance to read again and in some cases read for the first time. The only draw back to this books is sometimes I felt like I was reading a textbook from high school. Other than that this is a good read!

[Charles M. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This collection of short stories by some masters is worthy reading; just for Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King" (which later became a popular movie with Sean Connery and Michael Caine.