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:
— Kathleen Norris:Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby
What Happened to Alanna
Austin's Girl
S is for Shiftless Susanna
Making Allowances for Mamma
Dr. Bates and Miss Sally
Rising Water
— Charles W. Chesnutt:The Wife of His Youth
The Passing of Grandison
Her Virginia Mammy
The Bouquet
The Sheriffs' Children
The Web of Circunstance
— Don Marquis:The Old Soak
The Revolt of the Oyster
The Professor's Awakening
The Saddest Man Behind the Curtain
Kale
Too American
— Emma Orczy:The Red Carnation
The Traitor
Number 187 The Trappist's Vow Juliette, a Tale of Terror
The Revenge of Ur-Tasen
The Glasgow Mistery
— Zona Gale:Friday
Sucess and Artie Cherry
The Dance
The Way thw World Is White Bread
Human
Exit Charity
— Anthony Trollope:The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box The Mistletoe Bough
The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne
Returning Home
An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids
The Courtship of Susan Bell
The Relics of General Chasse
— Ellis Parker Butler:Pigs is Pigs
The Hard-boiled Egg Philo Gubb's Greatest Case
Solander's Radio Tomb
The Thin Santa Claus
Dey Ain't No Ghosts
The Man Who Did Not Go to Heaven on Tuesday
— Mary Shelley:The Invisible Girl
The Brother and Sister
The Dream
Transformation
The Mortal Immortal
The Mourner
The Swiss Peasant
— Hector Hugh Munro:The Lumber Room
The Open Window
Sredni Vashtar
Gabriel-Ernest
Tobermory
The Unrest-Cure
Laura
— D.H. Lawrence:The Rocking-Horse Winner
Tickets, Please!
The Odour of Chrysanthemums
The Horse Dealer's Daughter
Second Best
The Shades of Spring
The Fox
