Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 1

This book contains 70 short stories from 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.

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This book contains:

- Washington Irving:The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Rip Van Winkle

The Devil and Tom Walker

Christmas

Guest from Gibbet Island

The Legend of the Engulphed Convent

The Adventure of my Uncle

- Oscar Wilde:Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

The Sphinx without a Secret

A Model Millionaire

The Happy Prince

The Fisherman and his Soul

The Nightingale and the Rose

The Young King

- Bram Stoker:The Castle of the King

A Star Trap

The Secret of the Growing Gold

The Burial of the Rats

Dracula's Guest

The Squaw

The Judge's House

- H.G. Wells:The Time Machine

A Dream Of Armageddon

The Crystal Egg

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

The Flowering of the Strange Orchid

The Sea Riders

The Apple

- Arthur Conan Doyle:A Scandal In Bohemia

The Five Orange Pips

The Disintegration Machine

When the World Screamed

The Great Keinplatz Experiment

The Horror of the Heights

The Ring of Thoth

- E.T.A. Hoffman:The Golden Pot

The Sandman

Councillor Krespela

Automata

The Elementary Spirit

The Jesuits' Church in G--

The Story of the Hard Nut

- Rudyard Kipling:The Mark of the Beast

The Phantom 'Rickshaw

Mowgli's Brothers (from the Jungle Book)

Kaa's Hunting (from the Jungle Book)

Tiger! Tiger! (from the Jungle Book)

The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes

The Man Who Would Be King

- Franz Kafka:The Metamorphosis

A Hunger Artist

In the penal colony

The Judgment

Before the Law

A Country Doctor

A Report to an Academy

- H.P. Lovecraft:The Call of Cthulhu

The Outsider

Pickman's Model

The Statement of Randolph Carter

The Colour out of Space

The Dunwich Horror

The Music of Erich Zann

- Edgar Allan Poe:The Tell-Tale Heart

The Cask of Amontillado

The Masque of the Red Death

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Fall of the House of Usher

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Black Cat

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Nathaniel Hawthorne, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, Mark Twain, Guy de Maupassant, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Elizabeth Gaskell, Herman Melville, Katherine Mansfield, Jack London, August Nemo

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 3

Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert E. Howard, G. K. Chesterton, Edgar Wallace, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, Talbot Mundy, Abraham Merritt, Zane Grey, Edgar Rice Burroughs, August Nemo

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 4

James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, Ivan Turgenev, Joseph Conrad, Aleksander Pushkin, August Nemo

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 5

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Susan Glaspell, Kate Chopin, Laura E. Richards, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens, August Nemo

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 6

Kathleen Norris, Charles W. Chesnutt, Don Marquis, Emma Orczy, Zona Gale, Anthony Trollope, Ellis Parker Butler, Mary Shelley, Saki (H.H. Munro), D. H. Lawrence, August Nemo

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 7

Mary E. Freeman, O. Henry, William Dean Howells, T. S. Arthur, Stephen Leacock, Sherwood Anderson, Robert Barr, Lafcadio Hearn, Giovanni Verga, Hamlin Garland, August Nemo

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 8

Émile Zola, Stewart Edward White, Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, George Ade, Robert W. Chambers, George Gissing, Lord Dunsany, Ruth McEnery Stuart, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, August Nemo

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 9

Ernest Bramah, E. W. Hornung, John Galsworthy, Stacy Aumonier, Arthur Morrison, Edith Nesbit, Thomas Burke, Selma Lagerlöf, Paul Heyse, Théophile Gautier, August Nemo

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 10

Sheridan Le Fanu, H. and Heron, Charlotte Riddell, Flora Annie Steel, Amelia B. Edwards, Margaret Oliphant, Maria Edgeworth, Edward Bellamy, S. Baring-Gould, Arnold Bennett, August Nemo

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 11

Daniil Kharms, E. F. Benson, John Buchan, Ella D'Arcy, Jacques Futrelle, Frank Stockton, John Kendrick Bangs, Kenneth Grahame, A. E. Mason, Julian Hawthorne, August Nemo

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 12

Andy Adams, B. M. Bower, Richard Middleton, Pierre Louÿs, Hugh Walpole, Henry Handel Richardson, Gertrude Stein, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Mór Jókai, August Nemo

Oscar Wilde

Rudyard Kipling

E.T.A. Hoffmann

Bram Stoker

Arthur Conan Doyle

Franz Kafka

Washington Irving