The shipwrecked sailor. About 2500 B.C.
The book of Ruth. About 450 B.C.
Apuleius. The story of Cupid and Psyche. 2d century A.D.
Boccaccio. Frederick of the Alberighi and his falcon. 1353.
The story of Ali Baba, and the forty robbers destroyed by a slave. 1548.
Cervantes. The liberal lover. 1613.
Defoe. The apparition of Mrs. Veal. 1706.
Voltaire. Jeannot and Colon. 1764?
Irving, W. Rip Van Winkle. 1819.
Scott, Sir W. Wandering Willie's tale. 1824.
Mérimée, P. The taking of the redoubt. 1829.
Balzac, H. de. La Grande Bretéche. 1832.
Hawthorne, N. The birthmark. 1843.
Poe, E.A. The cask of Amontillado. 1846.
Turgeneff, I. A Lear of the steppes. 1870.
Stevenson, R.L. Markheim. 1884.
Maupassant, G. de. A coward. 1885.
Kipling, R. Without benefit of clergy. 1890.
A list of representative tales and short stories.
