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