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Big Book of Best Short Stories

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 5

This book contains70 short storiesfrom 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the criticAugust Nemo, in a collection that will please theliterature lovers.

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This book contains:

- F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Diamond as Big as the Ritz

The Jelly-Bean

May Day

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Head and Shoulders

The Cut-Glass Bowl

- Edith Wharton:The Triumph of Night

The Pelican

The Fullness Of Life

April Showers

A Journey

Afterward

Xingu

- Stephen Crane:A Dark Brown Dog

An Experiment in Misery

The Veteran

Four Men in a Cave

A Tent in Agony

The Snake

Upturned Face

- Susan Glaspell:His Smile

"Government Goat"

A Jury of Her Peers

The Anarchist: His Dog

"One of Those Impossible Americans"

At Twilight

From A to Z

- Kate Chopin:A Respectable Woman

A Pair of Silk Stockings

A Matter of Prejudice

A December Day in Dixie

At the 'Cadian Ball

The Storm

Désirée's Baby

- Laura E. Richards :Maine to the Rescue

The Coming of the King

The Golden Windows

The Shed Chamber

The Green Satin Gown

The Scarlet Leaves

Don Alonzo

- Alice Dunbar Nelson:A Carnival Jangle

Little Miss Sophie

La Juanita

The Praline Woman

Sister Josepha

Mr. Baptiste

M'sieu Fortier's Violin

- Louisa May Alcott:A Modern Cinderella

My Red Cap

A Christmas Dream, and How it Came to Be True

An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving

Aunt Kipp

Rosy's Journey

The Brothers

- Hans Christian Andersen:The Little Mermaid

Brave Tin Soldier

The Princess and the Pea

The Goloshes of Fortune

The Emperor's New Clothes

The Last Dream of Old Oak

Little Tiny or Thumbelina

- Charles Dickens:A Child's Dream of a Star

Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn

Nobody's Story

The Child's Story

The Magic Fishbone

What Christmas is As We Grow Older

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain



  1. Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 1

    Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, E T A Hoffmann, Bram Stoker, Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, H.P. Lovecraft, Washington Irving, August Nemo

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  2. Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 2

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

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  3. 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

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  4. 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

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  5. 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

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  6. 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

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  7. 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

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  8. Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 9

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

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  9. 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

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  10. 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

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  11. 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

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