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The Greatest Adventure Stories Ever Told

Arnold Shaw

First published 1945
Publisher J. P. Feiner
Format Paperback
Type Anthology
Pages 128
Price $0.25

Contents from Kenneth R. Johnson's The Digest Index. C$0.30 in Canada Contents' page numbers from ebay.com copy.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
3 The Execution of Milady Alexandre Dumas Short Story
8 The Blind Beggar of Salamanca Diego Hurtado de Mendoza Short Story
13 The Nerve-Water Rudolph Greinz Short Story
17 The Word of the Law James Morier Short Story
21 The Weird Penitent uncredited Short Story
25 The Sea Fight Off Salamis Aeschylus Short Story
29 George Washington William Makepeace Thackeray Short Story
33 Perilous Wooing Björnstjerne Björnson Short Story
37 The Horse Brings a Bride Gautier de Coinci Short Story
41 Taras Executes His Son Nickolaus Gogol Short Story
45 The Avenger of the Vehm-Gericht Walter Scott Short Story
49 The Ships That Came in Time James Fenimore Cooper Short Story
53 Hereward the Wake and the Fairy Bear Charles Kingsley Short Story
58 The Blossom of the Brenta Baron Franz von Gaudy Short Story
63 Jeremiah Mulcahy's Dream John Banim & Michael Banim Short Story
67 Lohengrin Richard Wagner (composer) Short Story
70 The Translated Soldado Thomas J. Nanvier Short Story
74 The Magician's Secret Matilde Serao Short Story
78 How the Princess of Solesia Fooled the King of the Underworld Johann Karl August Musous Short Story
83 Christmas Blesses Old Scrooge Charles Dickens Short Story
88 The Man Who Was Visited by Christ Leo Tolstoy Short Story
93 The Christmas Banquet Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
98 The Art of Virtue Benjamin Franklin Short Story
101 A Legend of Napoleon Honore Balzac Short Story
105 Lieutenant Doubledick's Revenge Charles Dickens Short Story
109 The Clocks of Basle uncredited Short Story
112 How the Devil Was Sent Abroad in Holy Russia Leo Tolstoy Short Story
116 Shakuntala Kalidasa Short Story
121 The Secret Visit Ivan Vazow Short Story
125 The Cavern of Stenfoll Wilhelm Hauff Novelette