This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers:
- Mary Shelley
- D. H. Lawrence
- Ellis Parker Butler
- Anthony Trollope
- Zona Gale
- Emma Orczy
- Don Marquis
- Charles W. Chesnutt
- Kathleen Norris
- Stanley G. Weinbaum
- Honoré de Balzac
- M. R. James
- Banjo Paterson
- Bret Harte
- Henry Lawson
- W. W. Jacobs
- Charlotte M. Yonge
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- L. Frank Baum
- O. Henry
- William Dean Howells
- T. S. Arthur
- Sherwood Anderson
- Robert Barr
- Lafcadio Hearn
- Giovanni Verga
- Hamlin Garland
- Émile Zola
- Stewart Edward White
- Sarah Orne Jewett
- Willa Cather
- George Ade
- Robert W. Chambers
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
- Ruth McEnery Stuart
- Lord Dunsany
- George Gissing
- Théophile Gautier
- Paul Heyse
- Selma Lagerlöf
- Thomas Burke
- Edith Nesbit
- Arthur Morrison
- Stacy Aumonier
- John Galsworthy
- E. W. Hornung
- Ernest Bramah
