Stories to Remember - Volume II Author:Thomas B. Costain & John Beecroft (editors) From the introduction: "The editors set themselves a much less trying but more useful task than that of out-pontificating the highly pontifical volumes already in print. Their purpose, briefly, was this: to present a collection of stories which would (according to the nature of each) engross, excite, mystify, please, amuse, charm or satisfy our ... more »readers from the front cover of the first volume to the back of the second."
Authors in the second volume include: Thornton Wilder, Eleanor Mercein Kelly, A. E. Coppard, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Edith Wharton, O. Henry, Arthur Train, Hans Christian Andersen, Conrad Richter, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Stephen Vincent Benet, Max Beerbohm, Percival Wilde, Edmond About, Emily Bronte, and Enid Bagnold.« less