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About The Book : A Volume of Selected English Short Stories (nine-teenth century) was first published in 1914, This is a second volume selected on the same principles and from almost the same period. The Sailor Uncle by Mary ann Lamb, 1764-1847; First Going to Church – by Charles Lamb, 1775-1834; The Maypole of Merry Mount, The Grey Champion, Roger Malvin’s Burial, Old Esther Dudley-Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864; The Purloined Letter, The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849; The Holly Tree - Charles Dickens, 1812-1870; A Terribly Strange Bed - William Wilkie Collins, 1824-1889; ‘The Sweetness of a Man’s Friend’ (By kind permission of Mrs . White) - by William Hale White (‘ Mark Ruther- Ford ’), 1831-1913; Ananda the Miracle Worker (By hind permission of Mr, John Lane) by Richard Garnett, 1835-1906; The Outcasts of Poker Flat, How Santa Claus came to Simpson’s Bar. by Francis Bret Harte, 1839-1902; Peppiniello (By kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co.) by Charles Grant, 1841-1889; Horseman in the Sky. by Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1913 ; Owen Wingrave (By kind permission of Messrs. Harper Bros.), Four Meetings. (By kind permission of Mr . J. B. Pinker) by Henry James, 1843-1916; The Sire de Maletroit’s Door. (By kind permission of Messrs. Chatto & Windus) by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894; The Birthday of the Infanta (By kind permission of Messrs. Methuen & Co.) by Oscar Wilde, 1856-1900; A Poor Gentleman. (By kind permission of Mr. J. B. Pinker) by George Gissing, 1857-1903; The House of Eulalie. (By kind permission of Mr. John Lane) by Henry Harland, 1861-1905; The Gift of the Magi., A Municipal Report., Madame Bo-Peep, of the Ranches. by William Sydney Porter (‘0. Henry ’ )1867-1910; The Gap in the Wall., A Witch in the Peak (By kind -permission of Mrs. Gilchrist) by R. Murray Gilchrist, 1867-1917; The Stowaway. (By kind permission of Messrs. Grant Richards, Ltd.) by Gerald Warre Cornish, 1875-1916. About The Author : Sir Humphrey Sumner Milford (1877 – 1952) was an English publisher and editor who from 1913 to 1945 was publisher to the University of Oxford and head of the London operations of Oxford University Press (OUP). In this work, he made OUP a major worldwide publisher of noteworthy books, music, and educational material for the general public, complementing the scholarly work of the Clarendon Press in Oxford. Milford himself edited volumes of works of Robert Browning, William Cowper, and Leigh Hunt; and was principal editor of The Oxford Book of Regency Verse (later The Oxford Book of Romantic Verse) and a moving force behind the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Upon publication of the final volume of the Oxford English Dictionary in 1928, he was among those awarded an honorary D.Litt. by the University. He was knighted in 1936.The Times of London cited his “unfailing catholicity”, “nose for a good book”, and “rare sense of the practicable”. The Title 'Selected English short stories, XIX & XX centuries written/authored/edited by Humphrey Milford', published in the year 2023. The ISBN 9788121268639 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 491 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Short Stories. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms