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Short Fiction

Edgar Saltus

  • Stories
  • Book language: English
  • 957 pages

Short Fiction is a collection of stories by Edgar Saltus. The opening introduces a New York club and the novelist Alphabet Jones, suggesting tales of society, nightlife and chance. It is worth listening for its polished, ironic prose and atmospheric vignettes.

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Text source: standardebooks.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. The Grand Duke’s Rubies
  2. Eden
  3. A Transaction in Hearts
  4. A Transient Guest
  5. A Maid of Modern Athens
  6. Fausta
  7. The Pace That Kills
  8. Mary Magdalen
  9. The Facts in the Curious Case of H. Hyrtl, Esq.
  10. Madam Sapphira
  11. The Noose Matrimonial
  12. A Drama in a Dining-Room
  13. The Dear Departed
  14. The Nameless Shame
  15. The Top of the Heap
  16. The Elixir of Love
  17. Daughters of the Rich
  18. The Splendid Lie
  19. The Suspect
  20. The Bomb
  21. White Gloves
  22. The Plot
  23. The Falsehood Shop
  24. The Proper Thing
  25. A Business Man
  26. A Boy and His Girl
  27. Their Only Way
  28. An Old-Fashioned Man
  29. The Golden Chimera
  30. The Verdict

and 3 more chapters

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