Table of Contents
The man who would be king /Rudyard Kipling --The tapestried chamber /Walter Scott --The parvenue /Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley --The half-brothers /Elizabeth Gaskell --Hunted down /Charles Dickens --A traveller's tale of a terribly strange bed /Wilkie Collins --The child in the house /Walter Pater --The three strangers /Thomas Hardy --Markheim /Robert Louis Stevenson --The birthday of the infanta /Oscar Wilde --An outpost of progress /Joseph Conrad --The red-headed league /Arthur Conan Doyle --Home sickness /George Moore --Casting the runes /M. R. James --That brute Simmons /Arthur Morrison --A rose of the ghetto /Israel Zangwill --The lord of the dynamos /H. G. Wells --Quality /John Galsworthy --Lisa-la-folle /Hubert Crackanthorpe --The happy hypocrite /Max Beerbohm.