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30 stories to remember

Thomas Bertram (ed.) Costain and John Beecroft (ed.)

Costain, Thomas Bertram (ed.); John Beecroft (ed.);

30 stories to remember

Doubleday, 1962, 884 pages

topics: |  fiction-short | anthology


DAPHNE DU MAURIER	The Split Second		1
KARL DECKER		The theft of the Mona Lisa	38
STUART CLOETE		The soldiers peaches		52
WALTER LORD		A night to remember		62
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW	Aerial Football,		118
WALTER D EDMONDS	Courtship of my cousin		125
CORNELL WOOLRICH	Hotel Room			175
WILLIAM FAULKNER	Two soldiers			204
STEPHEN LEACOCK	How we kept mothers		216
AGATHA CHRISTIE	Witness for the prosecution	219
SHEILA BUMFORD		The incredible journey		235
JAMES THURBER		The catbird seat		291
MOSS HART		Act One (extract from the book) 298
STEPHEN VINCENT BENET	The Devil and Daniel		410
COLETTE		Gigi				422
JAMES M BARRIE		The little minister		457
W SOMERSET MAUGHAM	The alien corn			478
JOHN F KENNEDY		A Profile In Courage		507
JOHN BUCHAN		The company of the Marjolaine	521
JESSAMYN WEST		First day finish		539
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE	Adventure of the Priory School	547
TRUMAN CAPOTE		A Christmas Memory		569
ALICE DUER MILLER	Death and Prof Raikes
CARL STEPENSON		Leiningen versus the ants	642
PAUL GALLICO		Mrs Arris goes to Paris	658
RUDYARD KIPLING		"They"				722
MAURICE WALSH		Son of a tinker		738
ARTHUR C CLARKE		History lesson			754
WERNER KELLER		Truth about the flood		761
RUMER GODDEN		A candle for St Jude		766


amitabha mukerjee (mukerjee [at] gmail.com) 17 Feb 2009