12 Classic Short Stories From Around The World -- Various Authors

<p>About the Book: <br /> <br /> This anthology has 12 classical short stories from around the world. <br /> <br /> O. Henry's sentimental story "The Gift of the Magi" was first published in The New York Sunday World under the title "Gifts of the Magi" on December 10, 1905 and was first published in the book form in the O. Henry Anthology "The Four Million" in April 1906.<br /> <br /> Guy de Maupassant's The Necklace was first published on 17 February 1884 in the French newspaper Le Gaulois. <br /> <br /> Ambrose Bierce's A Horseman in the sky was published on April 14, 1889 under the title The Horseman in the Sky in the Sunday edition of The Examiner, a San Francisco newspaper. It is set during the American Civil War and is one of Bierce's best known war stories. <br /> <br /> H.H. Munro (Saki)'s short story The Open Window was first published in the Westminster Gazette on November 18, 1911. The story was collected in the 1914 anthology Beasts and Super-Beasts.<br /> <br /> American author Jack London's adventure short story To Build a Fire was first published in The Youth's Companion on May 29, 1902.</p><p>W. W. Jacobs's supernatural short story The Monkey's Paw was first published in England in the collection The Lady of the Barge in September 1902. In the story, three wishes are granted to the owner of The Monkey's Paw, but the wishes come with an enormous price for interfering with fate.<br /> <br /> Irish writer Liam O'Flaherty's first published short story The Sniper