World's Greatest Short Stories (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)

An exquisitely designed leather-bound edition compiling some of the classic short stories produced around the world between the late eighteenth and the early twentieth century, this book comes with a ribbon bookmark, gilded edges and beautiful endpapers. Ideal to be read and treasured, it makes for a perfect addition to any library.Beginning with Washington Irving’s masterpiece ‘The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow’, it includes the realistic stories of Pushkin and Chekhov, the gothic spine-chillers of Edgar Allan Poe, ‘White Nights’ by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Tolstoy’s most celebrated story, ‘How Much Land Does a Man Need’, Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’s Guest’, ‘The Necklace’ by Guy de Maupassant, ‘The “Slapping Sal”’ by Arthur Conan Doyle, Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘The Postmaster’, ‘The Gift of Magi’ by O. Henry, ‘Tobermory’ by H. H. Munro (Saki), ‘A Little Cloud’ from James Joyce’s landmark collection, Dubliners, ‘The Fly’ by Katherine Mansfield, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best-known story, ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’.An editorial note precedes each work.