• Publication: The Garden of Romance: Romantic Tales of All TimePublication Record # 618371
• Editor: Ernest Rhys
• Date: 1897-00-00
• Publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.
• Pages: viii+238
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Webpages: archive.org
• Notes: The Story of the Lame Young Man (AKA The Tailor's Tale) is from the Arabian Nights. Cymon & Iphigenia from the Decameron is a modernized spelling of the 1620 English translation. The Story of Balin & Balan is from Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. The Story of Marcella, from Chapters IV-V of Don Quixote, is the 1755 translation by Tobias Smollett. The Story of Le Fevre is an excerpt from Chapter VI-XII of Vol.VI of Sterne's Tristram Shandy. Andersen's The "Old Bachelor's" Nighcap is translated by Grace Rhys, the editor's wife.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 5638696

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• v • Preface (The Garden of Romance: Romantic Tales of All Time) • essay by Ernest Rhys
• 1 • The Story of the Lame Young Man • (unknown) • short story by uncredited
• 28 • The Story of Cymon and Iphigenia • short story by Giovanni Boccaccio [as by uncredited]
• 47 • The Story of Balin and Balan • (unknown) • novelette by Sir Thomas Malory
• 79 • The Story of Marcella • (1755) • short fiction by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (trans. of El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (excerpt) unknown) [as by uncredited]
• 110 • The Story of Le Fevre • short fiction by Laurence Sterne [as by uncredited]
• 128 • The Tapestried Chamber • (1828) • short story by Sir Walter Scott
• 148 • Rip Van Winkle • (1819) • short story by Washington Irving
• 170 • My Kinsman, Major Molineux • (1832) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 197 • The Fall of the House of Usher • (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 223 • The "Old Bachelor's" Nightcap • short story by Hans Christian Andersen (trans. of Pebersvendens Nathue 1858)