Five tales by Victorian writers who set their stories across the Channel. Stevenson’s A Lodging for the Night follows the poet François Villon through snowbound Paris in 1456; Wilkie Collins contributes his famous A Terribly Strange Bed; Ouida, Hesba Stretton and Stanley Weyman add stories of war, faith and a dangerous romance.
A compact Scribner’s anthology that pairs two genuine classics of the short story with less familiar Victorian work. Download the free EPUB.