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Introduction.--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.Mode of access: Internet