An exquisitely designed hardbound 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 Dubliners, ‘The Fly’ by Katherine Mansfield, F Scott Fitzgerald best-known story, ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin button’. An editorial note precedes each work.