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Step into a world where every story opens a different door: from candlelit Victorian romance to razor-sharp mystery, from ghostly whispers to flashes of wit and humor from across the globe. This bookshelf is a whirlwind tour of short fiction at its most vivid, gathering voices from England, America, Russia, Scandinavia, France, Spain, and beyond. In just a few pages at a time, expect suspense, passion, surprise, and unforgettable glimpses of lives far from your own.

by Maria Edgeworth

by Abraham Cahan

by J. P. (Jens Peter) Jacobsen

by Jakob Wassermann

by Juliana Horatia Ewing

by George Washington Cable

by Edward Eggleston

by Hannah More

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

by Frank R. Stockton

by Mary Hallock Foote

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Alphonse Daudet

by Charles Perrault

by Jakob Wassermann

by Théophile Gautier

by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

by Clemens Brentano, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann, Heinrich Zschokke

by Jakob Wassermann

by Jakob Wassermann

by Mary Hallock Foote

by James Hogg

by Alphonse Daudet

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Ludwig Thoma

by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

by Charles Sellers

by N. S. (Nikolai Semenovich) Leskov

by Jacobus Jan Cremer

by Louis Becke

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Albert Bigelow Paine

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

by Rudyard Kipling

by Agatha Christie

by Walter Scott

by Arthur Achleitner

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Mark Twain

by Enrico Castelnuovo

by Nescio

by J. H. Erkko

by Various Authors

by James Joyce

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Booth Tarkington

by Jack London

by Juhani Aho

by Honoré de Balzac

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

by Arthur Morrison

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Ludwig Bechstein

by Rudyard Kipling

by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

by Hermann Hesse

by Wilhelm Raabe

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Vittorio Imbriani

by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

by Ernst Eckstein

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Louisa May Alcott

by Enrico Castelnuovo

by Arno Marx

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Pekka Brofeldt

by Hans Arnold

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Robert Louis Stevenson

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Jack London

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

by Howard Roger Garis

by Marie Beeg

by Saki

by Alphonse Daudet

by Otto Ernst Schmidt

by Rudyard Kipling

by King of Navarre consort of Henry II Queen Marguerite

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Edith Wharton

by María de Zayas y Sotomayor