The Anchor Book of Stories
| First published | 1958 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Anchor Books |
| Format | Paperback |
| Type | Anthology |
| Catalog ID | A145 |
| Pages | xxiv+330 |
| Price | $1.25 |
- "First edition."
- Price from bookseller pictures; the verification copy has a sticker reading "$1.45" over the price on the front cover.
- Publisher name is given as "Doubleday Anchor Books" on the title page.
- Only speculative contents have been listed here.
- The author of "The Red King and the Witch" is stated as "Anonymous."
- "On Letting Alone" by Chuang Tz'u is one of a number of excerpts under the collective title "Five Anecdotes" (the others are non-speculative).
No ISBN on record — searching by title and author.
| Page | Title | Author(s) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Country Doctor | Franz Kafka | Short Story |
| 36 | The Witch of Coös | Robert Frost | Poem |
| 47 | The Nose | Nicolai Gogol | Novelette |
| 85 | Fair Eckbert | Ludwig Tieck | Novelette |
| 105 | The Three Hermits | Lev Tolstoy | Short Story |
| 131 | The Fir Tree | Hans Christian Andersen | Short Story |
| 151 | The Red King and the Witch: A Gypsy Folk-Tale | Anonymous | Short Story |
| 167 | Cat and Mouse in Partnership | The Brothers Grimm | Short Story |
| 170 | The Story of the Siren | E. M. Forster | Short Story |
| 179 | The Book of Jonah | uncredited | Short Story |
| 183 | The Bucket-Rider | Franz Kafka | Short Story |
| 213 | On Letting Alone | Chuang T'zu | Short Story |
| 216 | A Tale of the Cavalry | Hugo von Hofmannsthal | Short Story |
| 226 | The Mental Traveller | William Blake | Poem |
| 247 | The Porcelain Doll | Lev Tolstoy | Short Story |
| 252 | Byezhin Prairie | Ivan Turgenev | Short Story |