Stories to Remember Volume 2

These well-beloved writings were chosen for their originality and readability and for the reputations they have built for themselves and their authors. Among them are a number of discoveries - stories you have probably never read because they have been out of print for many years.

The collection was assembled by Thomas B. Costain, editor and author of best-selling novels and histories, and John Beecroft, editor-in-chief of the Literary Guild of America and compiler of five previous anthologies.

Mr. Costain says of the collection: "These are vintage stories, in our esteem, and we are convinced that those who read them will carry them in their memories with the same fondness and admiration that the editors have felt."

CONTENTS:

• THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY (A Novel) Thornton Wilder
• BASQUERIE Eleanor Mercein Kelly
• JUDITH A. E. Coppard
• A MOTHER IN MANNVILLE Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• KERFOL Edith Wharton
• THE LAST LEAF O. Henry
• THE BLOODHOUND Arthur Train
• WHAT THE OLD MAN DOES IS ALWAYS RIGHT Hans Christian Andersen
• THE SEA OF GRASS (A Novel) Conrad Richter
• THE SIRE DE MALETROIT'S DOOR Robert Louis Stevenson
• THE NECKLACE Guy de Maupassant
• BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON Stephen Vincent Benét
• A. V. LAIDER Max Beerbohm
• THE PILLAR OF FIRE Percival Wilde
• THE STRANGE WILL (from the novel The Man with the Broken Ear) Edmond About
• THE HAND AT THE WINDOW (from the novel Wuthering Heights) Emily Brontë

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (complete novel) - Thornton Wilder, 1928. A suspension bridge in the Peruvian Andes gives way, sending a group of travellers to their demise. Who were they, and what chances of fate led them to their rendezvous with death at San Luis Rey? Excellent story. Basquerie - Eleanor Mercein Kelly, 1927. A lovely, not-so-young American girl in Europe must decide between love and (possibly?) a more financially wise match. This author is worth further investigation. Judith - A.E. Coppard, 1927. Aristocratic Judith meets and dallies with a handsome young schoolmaster, to his eventual tragic downfall. A Mother in Mannville - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 1936. Touchingly poignant short story about an orphan boy and his integrity and pride. Kerfol - Edith Wharton, 1916. The tragic tale of a jealous French nobleman and his faithless wife. Supernatural elements - something of a ghost story.