Twenty-Two Tales: An Anthology of Short Stories

xv, 446 pp. Full burgundy leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Dennis Lyall. A collection of short stories selected by Kenneth D. McCormick, the editor-in-chief at Doubleday credited with discovering Noel Coward, Daphne du Maurier, Wallace Stegner, etc. McCormick provides an introduction, and the stories include: Concerning Love by Anton Chekhov; Prince Roman by Joseph Conrad; The Poor Man by A.E. Coppard; Pretty Polly by Noel Coward; The Siege of Berlin by Alphonse Daudet; Kiss Me Again, Stranger by Daphne du Maurier; Turnabout by William Faulkner; The Procurator of Judaea by Anatole France; The Revolt of 'Mother' by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; The Yellow Wall-Paper [Wallpaper] by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Squire Petrick's Lady by Thomas Hardy; The Gray Champion by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Homage to Switzerland by Ernest Hemingway; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving; To Build a Fire by Jack London; A Domestic Dilemma by Carson McCullers; The Book-Bag by W. Somerset Maugham; The Open Window by Saki (H.H. Munro); Carrion Spring by Wallace Stegner; The Great Mountains by John Steinbeck; The Country of the Blind by H.G. Wells; Xingu by Edith Wharton.