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Коллектив авторов. 75 лучших рассказов / 75 Best Short Stories
My Adventure in Norfolk (A.J. Alan)
Marjorie’s Three Gifts (Louisa May Alcott)
An Awakening (Sherwood Anderson)
Where Was Wych Street? (Stacy Aumonier)
The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall (John Kendrick Bangs)
Aunt Joanna (Sabine Baring-Gould)
The Inconsiderate Waiter (James Matthew Barrie)
The Solid Gold Reef Company, Limited (Walter Besant)
Act I
Act II
Act III
Act IV
Act V
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Ambrose Bierce)
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
An Heiress from Redhorse (Ambrose Bierce)
Coronado, June 20th
July 3d
July 1
July 17th
July 25th
The Coin of Dionysius (Ernest Bramah)[70]
Aunt Jane’s Album (Eliza Calvert Hall)
The Queer Feet (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Ma’ame Pelagie (Kate Chopin)
I
II
III
IV
Desirée’s Baby (Kate Chopin)
The Traveller’s Story of a Terribly Strange Bed (Wilkie Collins)
Prologue to the First Story
The Traveller’s Story of a Terribly Strange Bed
Note by Mrs. Kerby
That Little Square Box (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Horror of the Heights (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Tale (Joseph Conrad)
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky (Stephen Crane)
I
II
III
IV
The Upper Berth (Francis Marion Crawford)
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
The Lamplighter (Charles Dickens)
The Dancing Academy (Charles Dickens)
Bernice Bobs Her Hair (Francis Scott Fitzgerald)
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Francis Scott Fitzgerald)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
The Old Nurse’s Story (Elizabeth Gaskell)
The Yellow Wall Paper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
An Imaginative Woman (Thomas Hardy)
The Grave by the Hand-post (Thomas Hardy)
The Outcasts of Poker Flat (Bret Harte)
The Convalescence of Jack Hamlin (Bret Harte)
The Beast with Five Fingers (William Fryer Harvey)
I
II
III
IV
Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Birthmark (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Voice in the Night (William Hope Hodgson)
The Devil and Tom Walker (Washington Irving)
A Tragedy of Error (Henry James)
I
II
III
IV
The Ghost of the Marchioness of Appleford (Jerome K. Jerome)
The White Heron (Sarah Orne Jewett)
I
II
The Boarding House (James Joyce)
The Bronckhorst Divorce-case (Rudyard Kipling)
The Rocking-horse Winner (David Herbert Lawrence)
The Dead Sexton (Sheridan Le Fanu)
Making a Magazine (Stephen Leacock)
Simple Stories of Success, or How to Succeed in Life (Stephen Leacock)
The Terrible Solomons (Jack London)
To Build a Fire (Jack London)
Dagon[378] (Howard Phillips Lovecraft)
The Picture in the House (Howard Phillips Lovecraft)
The Gray Wolf (George MacDonald)
The Garden-party (Katherine Mansfield)
Marriage à la Mode[400] (Katherine Mansfield)
The Fiddler (Herman Melville)
The Ghost-Ship (Richard Middleton)
The Tachypomp (Edward Page Mitchell)
Proof of the Pudding (O. Henry)
Next to Reading Matter (O. Henry)
The Guilty Party (O. Henry)
The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Masque of the Red Death (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Vampire (John Polidori)
The Open Window (Saki)
Reginald on Christmas Presents (Saki)
Reginald’s Christmas Revel (Saki)
Reginald’s Choir Treat (Saki)
The Tapestried Chamber (Walter Scott)
The Body-snatcher (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Judge’s House (Bram Stoker)
Dracula’s[542] Guest (Bram Stoker)
How I Edited an Agricultural Paper (Mark Twain)
Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup[556] (Mark Twain)
The Choice (Edith Wharton)
I
II
The Remarkable Rocket (Oscar Wilde)
The Model Millionaire (Oscar Wilde)
A Society (Virginia Woolf)
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Marjorie sat on the door-step, shelling peas, quite unconscious what a pretty picture she made, with the roses peeping at her through the lattice work of the porch, the wind playing hide-and-seek in her curly hair, while the sunshine with its silent magic changed her faded gingham to a golden gown, and shimmered on the bright tin pan as if it were a silver shield. Old Rover lay at her feet, the white kitten purred on her shoulder, and friendly robins hopped about her in the grass, chirping ‘A happy birthday, Marjorie!’
But the little maid neither saw nor heard, for her eyes were fixed on the green pods, and her thoughts were far away. She was recalling the fairy-tale granny told her last night, and wishing with all her heart that such things happened nowadays. For in this story, as a poor girl like herself sat spinning before the door, a Brownie[4] came by, and gave the child a good-luck penny; then a fairy passed, and left a talisman[5] which would keep her always happy; and last of all, the prince rolled up in his chariot[6], and took her away to reign with him over a lovely kingdom, as a reward for her many kindnesses to others.
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The fire burned low, but still he continued to sit thinking, his mind principally occupied with the dazzling visions of the future. It was past midnight when he suddenly muttered a low ‘Damn!’ and walked to the bureau. He took up a pen and wrote:
‘Dear Mr. Sandeman, –
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