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:
- John Galsworthy:The First and Last
A Stoic
The Apple Tree
The Juryman
Indian Summer of a Forsyte
The Hedonist
Buttercup Night
- Théophile Gautier:Clarimonde
The Mummy's Foot
One Of Cleopatra's Night
Omphale: A Rococo Story
King Candaules
Arria Marcella
The Romance of a Mummy
- Paul Heyse:The Dead Lake
Doomed
Beatrice
Beginning, and End
L'Arrabiata!
Count Ernest's Home
Blind
- Selma Lagerlöf:The Holy Night
The Emperor's Vision
The Wise Men's Well
Bethlehem's Children
The Flight Into Egypt
In Nazareth
In The Temple
- Thomas Burke:The Chink and the Child
The Father of Yoto
Gracie Goodnight
The Paw
The Cue
Beryl, the Croucher and the Rest of England
The Sign of the Lamp
- E. Nesbit:The Ebony Frame
John Charrington's Wedding
Uncle Abraham's Romance
The Mystery Of The Semi-Detached
From The Dead
Man-Size In Marble
The Mass For The Dead
- Arthur Morrison:That Brute Simmos
A Poor Stick
Behind the Shade
To Bow Bridges
A Conversation
All That Messuage
Three Hounds
- Stacy Aumonier:A Source of Irritation
Where Was Wych Street?
Burney's Laugh
The Chinese Philosopher and the European War
Cricket
George
"Solemn-Looking Blokes"
