Charles Reade 
Good Stories of Man and Other Animals (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) [EPUB ebook] 

This collection (1884) contains fourteen short stories, including ‘The Knight’s Secret, ‘ “Exchange of Animals, ” “Reality, ” “‘There’s Many a Slip ‘Twixt the Cup and the Lip, ’” “Man’s Life Saved by Fowls, and Woman’s by a Pig, ” and ‘Lambert’s Leap.’

A propos de l’auteur

Charles Reade (1814-1884) was a prolific English novelist and playwright who sought to expose social injustice in his work.  He is remembered for the novels The Cloister and the Hearth (1861), a historical romance; Hard Cash (1863), an expose of abuse in mental asylums; and Put Yourself in His Place (1870), about trade-union terrorism.