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7 best short stories - Death

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In society, the nature of death and humanity's awareness of its own mortality has for millennia been a concern of the world's religious traditions and of philosophical inquiry. Literature has also been a tool for speaking and reflecting on the great mystery of life.

Join us in these seven short stories specially selected by the critic August Nemo:

- The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

- A Dead Woman's Secret by Guy De Maupassant

- The Sisters by James Joyce

- The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce

- The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

- Odour of Chrysanthemums by D. H. Lawrence

- Laura by Saki

For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!



  1. 7 best short stories - Morality Tales

    Stephen Leacock, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Kate Chopin, Guy de Maupassant, Matsuo Bashō, August Nemo

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  2. The Story of an Hour

    Kate Chopin

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  3. A Respectable Woman

    Kate Chopin

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  4. Library of Masterpieces - 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime

    illiam Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Louisa May Alcott, Miguel de Cervantes, John Milton, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, H. G. Wells, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Kenneth Grahame, C. S. Lewis, Malcolm Lowry, Ford Madox Ford, Mark Twain, Jack London, Herman Melville, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, Kate Chopin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Margaret Mitchell, Sylvia Plath, Carson McCullers, L. Frank Baum, L. M. Montgomery, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Gogol, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Erich Maria Remarque, Albert Camus, Marcel Proust, Jules Verne, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, Stendhal, Alexandre Dumas, Henrik Ibsen, Rudyard Kipling, Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Laozi, Sun Tzu, Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Dante Alighieri, Niccolò Machiavelli

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  5. 50 Timeless Masterpieces (Volume 1) : Essential Classics for a Rich Literary Journey

    Homer, Sun Tzu, Plato, Dante, Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes, John Milton, Daniel Defoe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jane Austen, Nikolai Gogol, Emily Brontë, Mary Shelley, Alexandre Dumas, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gustave Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy, Henrik Ibsen, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Raymond Chandler, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, L. M. Montgomery, T. S. Eliot, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, C. S. Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Kate Chopin, Zora Neale Hurston, Margaret Mitchell, Sylvia Plath, Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, George Orwell

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  6. The Awakening

    Kate Chopin

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  7. The Awakening

    Kate Chopin

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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stendhal, Jules Verne, Gustave Flaubert, Lewis Carroll, Henrik Ibsen, Charles Dickens, Plato, Honoré de Balzac, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rabindranath Tagore, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Walt Whitman, Niccolò Machiavelli, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Giovanni Boccaccio, Confucius, George MacDonald, Bram Stoker, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Henry David Thoreau, Weedon Grossmith, Jack London, Henry James, Louisa May Alcott, Victor Hugo, Arthur Conan Doyle, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Joseph Conrad, Jane Austen, Herman Melville, George Eliot, Laurence Sterne, Thomas Hardy, Jonathan Swift, Edith Wharton, Benito Pérez Galdós, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Alexandre Dumas, Kalidasa, Kenneth Grahame, Marcel Proust, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Homer, Gaston Leroux, Charles Baudelaire, Wilkie Collins, William Makepeace Thackeray, Voltaire, Kate Chopin, Apuleius, John Milton, Frederick Douglass, Laozi, John Keats, James Joyce, Ann Ward Radcliffe, Kahlil Gibran, Kakuzo Okakura, Soseki Natsume, Princess Der Ling, H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats, J. M. Barrie, G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Eliot, L. M. Montgomery, C. S. Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, H. P. Lovecraft, Marcus Aurelius, Friedrich Nietzsche, Lewis Wallace, Ivan Turgenev, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Sir, George Bernard Shaw, Miguel de Cervantes, Mary Shelley, Cao Xueqin, Emile Zola, Válmíki, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, P. B. Shelley, Elizabeth von Arnim, Herman Hesse, Dante, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Sun Tzu, Inazo Nitobé

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  9. World's Greatest Classics in One Volume : Les Misérables, Hamlet, Jane Eyre, Ulysses, War and Peace, Art of War, Faust, Don Quixote, Bushido…

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stendhal, Jules Verne, Gustave Flaubert, Lewis Carroll, Henrik Ibsen, Charles Dickens, Plato, Honoré de Balzac, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rabindranath Tagore, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Walt Whitman, Niccolò Machiavelli, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Giovanni Boccaccio, Confucius, George MacDonald, Bram Stoker, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Henry David Thoreau, Weedon Grossmith, Jack London, Henry James, Louisa May Alcott, Victor Hugo, Arthur Conan Doyle, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Joseph Conrad, Jane Austen, Herman Melville, George Eliot, Laurence Sterne, Thomas Hardy, Jonathan Swift, Edith Wharton, Benito Pérez Galdós, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Alexandre Dumas, Kalidasa, Kenneth Grahame, Marcel Proust, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Homer, Gaston Leroux, Charles Baudelaire, Wilkie Collins, William Makepeace Thackeray, Voltaire, Kate Chopin, Apuleius, John Milton, Frederick Douglass, Laozi, John Keats, James Joyce, Ann Ward Radcliffe, Kahlil Gibran, Kakuzo Okakura, Soseki Natsume, Princess Der Ling, H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats, J. M. Barrie, G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Eliot, L. M. Montgomery, C. S. Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, H. P. Lovecraft, Marcus Aurelius, Friedrich Nietzsche, Lewis Wallace, Ivan Turgenev, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Sir, George Bernard Shaw, Miguel de Cervantes, Mary Shelley, Cao Xueqin, Emile Zola, Válmíki, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, P. B. Shelley, Elizabeth von Arnim, Herman Hesse, Dante, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Sun Tzu, Inazo Nitobé

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  10. The Greatest Classics Ever Written

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stendhal, Jules Verne, Gustave Flaubert, Lewis Carroll, Henrik Ibsen, Charles Dickens, Plato, Honoré de Balzac, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rabindranath Tagore, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Walt Whitman, Niccolò Machiavelli, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Giovanni Boccaccio, Confucius, George MacDonald, Bram Stoker, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Henry David Thoreau, Weedon Grossmith, Jack London, Henry James, Louisa May Alcott, Victor Hugo, Arthur Conan Doyle, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Joseph Conrad, Jane Austen, Herman Melville, George Eliot, Laurence Sterne, Thomas Hardy, Jonathan Swift, Edith Wharton, Benito Pérez Galdós, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Alexandre Dumas, Kalidasa, Kenneth Grahame, Marcel Proust, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Homer, Gaston Leroux, Charles Baudelaire, Wilkie Collins, William Makepeace Thackeray, Voltaire, Kate Chopin, Apuleius, John Milton, Frederick Douglass, Laozi, John Keats, James Joyce, Ann Ward Radcliffe, Kahlil Gibran, Kakuzo Okakura, Soseki Natsume, Princess Der Ling, H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats, J. M. Barrie, G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Eliot, L. M. Montgomery, C. S. Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, H. P. Lovecraft, Marcus Aurelius, Friedrich Nietzsche, Lewis Wallace, Ivan Turgenev, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Sir, George Bernard Shaw, Miguel de Cervantes, Mary Shelley, Cao Xueqin, Emile Zola, Válmíki, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, P. B. Shelley, Elizabeth von Arnim, Herman Hesse, Dante, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Sun Tzu, Inazo Nitobé

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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stendhal, Jules Verne, Gustave Flaubert, Theodor Storm, Henrik Ibsen, Charles Dickens, Honoré de Balzac, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rabindranath Tagore, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, John Buchan, Confucius, George MacDonald, Bram Stoker, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Joseph Conrad, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Laurence Sterne, Thomas Hardy, Jonathan Swift, Edith Wharton, Benito Pérez Galdós, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Sinclair Lewis, Anthony Trollope, Alexandre Dumas, William Dean Howells, Virginia Woolf, William Walker Atkinson, Kenneth Grahame, Washington Irving, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Homer, Gaston Leroux, Ford Madox Ford, Benjamin Franklin, Kate Chopin, John Milton, Edgar Wallace, Laozi, James Joyce, Ann Ward Radcliffe, Kakuzo Okakura, H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats, J. M. Barrie, G. K. Chesterton, Jerome K. Jerome, L. M. Montgomery, W. Somerset Maugham, E. M. Forster, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lewis Wallace, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, George Bernard Shaw, Cao Xueqin, Emile Zola, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, P. B. Shelley, Elizabeth von Arnim, Dante, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Émile Coué, George Weedon Grossmith, Willkie Collins, D.H. Lawrence, Machiavelli

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    Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Robert E. Howard, Ring Lardner, August Nemo

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    Sheridan Le Fanu, Saki (H.H. Munro), Elizabeth Gaskell, M. R. James, Lafcadio Hearn, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, August Nemo

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  3. 7 best short stories - Russian Authors

    Leo Tolstoy, Leonid Andreyev, Maxim Gorky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, August Nemo

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  4. 7 best short stories - Halloween

    W. W. Jacobs, M. R. James, Lafcadio Hearn, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Leonid Andreyev, August Nemo

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  5. 7 best short stories - Christmas

    Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Henry van Dyke, Stephen Leacock, Leo Tolstoy, O. Henry, August Nemo

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    Stephen Leacock, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Kate Chopin, Guy de Maupassant, Matsuo Bashō, August Nemo

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  7. 7 best short stories - Thanksgiving Day

    Louisa May Alcott, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, William Dean Howells, O. Henry, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Francis K. Ball, Edward Payson Roe, August Nemo

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    Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Henry James, Kate Chopin, Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, Thomas Nelson Page, August Nemo

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    Rudyard Kipling, Katherine Mansfield, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Arthur Conan Doyle, August Nemo

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    August Nemo, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Edith Nesbit

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    George Ade, H. G. Wells, Anton Chekhov, T. S. Arthur, Oscar Wilde, O. Henry, Nathaniel Hawthorne, August Nemo

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    William Schwenck Gilbert, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, George Moore, August Nemo

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