| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxiv, 343 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Note |
"A Barbara Holdridge Book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Stories. A psychological shipwreck -- Chickamauga -- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge -- A horseman in the sky -- One of the missing -- A wireless message -- The stranger -- The man and the snake -- The coup de grâce -- Curried cow -- The secret of Macarger's Gulch -- A resumed identity -- One kind of officer -- One summer night -- Three and one are one -- The death of Halpin Frayser -- John Bartine's watch -- Staley Felming's hallucination -- Oil of dog -- The hypnotist -- The difficulty of crossing a field -- An arrest -- Moxon's master -- Killed at Resaca -- Haïta the shepherd -- Present at a hanging -- An inhabitatant of Carcos -- One officer, one man -- The damned thing. |
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Fables. The man with no enemies -- The lifesaver -- Saint and sinner -- Saint and soul -- The lassoed bear -- The Australian grasshopper -- The discontented malefactor -- Two poets -- The austere governor -- The reform school board -- The witch's steed -- Legislator and soap -- The tried assassin -- The bumbo of Jiam -- The city of political distinction -- The tolerant sovereign -- A little learning -- The flying machine -- The incredulous subordinate -- The statue at Bumboogle -- Two politicians -- A faulty performance -- A defective petition -- The reformed anarchist -- Patriot and banker -- A hasty settlement -- The crimson candle -- The foolish woman -- The fugitive office -- The eligible son-in-law -- Highwayman and traveler -- Policeman and citizen -- Moral principle and material interest -- The dutiful son -- A matter of taste -- The fabulist -- Two of the pious -- The secret of happiness -- Atonement -- A part of the wages -- Sheep and lion -- Officer and thug -- Famine versus pestilence -- The inconsolable widow -- The mysterious word -- A plucked goose -- The tyrant frog -- Widow and soldier -- Two sons -- Consolation -- The seeker for simplicity -- Revelation -- Disappointment -- The justice and his accuser -- Wolf and tortoise -- Alarm and pride -- Environment -- A causeway -- A talisman -- The shadow of the leader -- A radical parallel -- Physicians two -- The thistles upon the grave -- Kangaroo and zebra -- The honest cadi -- The overlooked factor -- The returned Californian -- The no case -- Two of the damned -- Religious of error -- The humble peasant -- Judge and rash act -- Deceased and heirs -- An optimist -- The compassionate physician -- A forfeited right -- Revenge -- Man and wart -- An unspeakable imbecile -- At heaven's gate -- Fogy and sheik -- Sportsman and squirrel -- No irregularity -- A transposition -- Old man and pupil -- Two footpads -- Dog and doctore -- The monk and the hangman's daughter. |
| Subject |
Manners and customs -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Wagenknecht, Edward, 1900-2004.
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| Added Title |
Short stories. Selections
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| ISBN |
0916144194. |
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9780916144197 |
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0916144208 (paperback) |
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9780916144203 (paperback) |
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