Modern Short Stories: A Book for High Schools
by Stacy Aumonier et al.
EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
BY
FREDERICK HOUK LAW, Ph.D.
Lecturer in English in New York University, and Head of
the Department of English in the Stuyvesant
High School, New York City
CONTENTS
PAGEPreface iii
Introduction
I Our National Reading vii
II The Definition vii
III The Family Tree of the Short Story ix
IV A Good Story xi
V What Shall I Do with This Book? xiii
VI Where to Find Some Good Short Stories xv
VII Some Interesting Short Stories xvi
VIII What to Read about the Short Story xix
The Adventures of Simon and Susanna — Joel Chandler Harris From “Daddy Jake and the Runaways.” 3
The Crow-Child — Mary Mapes Dodge From “The Land of Pluck.” 9
The Soul of the Great Bell — Lafcadio Hearn From “Some Chinese Ghosts.” 17
The Ten Trails — Ernest Thompson Seton From “Woodmyth and Fable.” 22
Where Love is, There God is Also — Count Leo Tolstoi From “Tales and Parables.” 23
Wood-Ladies — Perceval Gibbon From “Scribner’s Magazine.” 38
On the Fever Ship — Richard Harding Davis From “The Lion and the Unicorn.” 53
viA Source of Irritation — Stacy Aumonier From “The Century Magazine.” 69
Moti Guj—Mutineer — Rudyard Kipling From “Plain Tales from the Hills.” 84
Gulliver the Great — Walter A. Dyer From “Gulliver the Great and Other Stories.” 92
Sonny’s Schoolin’ — Ruth McEnery Stuart From “Sonny, a Christmas Guest.” 105
Her First Horse Show — David Gray From “Gallops 2.” 117
My Husband’s Book — James Matthew Barrie From “Two of Them.” 135
War — Jack London From “The Night-Born.” 141
The Battle of the Monsters — Morgan Robertson From “Where Angels Fear to Tread.” 147
A Dilemma — S. Weir Mitchell From “Little Stories.” 160
The Red-Headed League — A. Conan Doyle From “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.” 166
One Hundred in the Dark — Owen Johnson From “Murder in Any Degree.” 192
A Retrieved Reformation — O. Henry From “Roads of Destiny.” 212
Brother Leo — Phyllis Bottome From “The Derelict and Other Stories.” 221
A Fight with Death — Ian Maclaren From “Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush.” 238
The Dàn-nan-Ròn — Fiona Macleod From “The Dominion of Dreams, Under the Dark Star.” 248
Notes and Comments 275
Suggestive Questions for Class Use 296
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