Twenty-Three Tales (The World's Classics, 72)

x, 298 pp. CONTENTS: Preface; Part I: Tales for Children: Published about 1872 - God Sees the Truth, but Waits - A Prisoner in the Caucasus - The Bear-Hunt; Part II: Popular Stories - What Men Live By (1881) - A Spark Neglected Burns the House (1885) - Two Old Men (1885) - Where Love Is, God Is (1885); Part III: A Fairy Tale - The Story of Ivan the Fool (1885); Part IV: Stories Written to Pictures (1885) - Evil Allures, but God Endures - Little Girls Wiser than Men - Elias; Part V: Folk-Tales Retold - The Three Hermits (1886) - The Imp and the Crust (1886) - How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1886) - A Grain as Big as a Hen's Egg (1886) - The Godson (1886) - The Repentant Sinner (1886) - The Empty Drum (1891); Part VI: Adaptations from the French - The Coffee-House of Surat (1893) - Too Dear! (1897); Part VII: Stories Given to Aid the Persecuted Jews (1903) - Esarhaddon, King of Assyria - Work, Death and Sickness - Three Questions.