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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 Jakob Wassermann

by J. P. (Jens Peter) Jacobsen

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 H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

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

by Théophile Gautier

by Jakob Wassermann

by Mary Hallock Foote

by Jakob Wassermann

by Alphonse Daudet

by James Hogg

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 Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Various Authors

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

by Walter Scott

by Various Authors

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

by Agatha Christie

by Rudyard Kipling

by Arthur Achleitner

by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Mark Twain

by Nescio

by Enrico Castelnuovo

by Booth Tarkington

by J. H. Erkko

by James Joyce

by Various Authors

by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Jack London

by Juhani Aho

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

by Honoré de Balzac

by Wilhelm Raabe

by Ludwig Bechstein

by Arthur Morrison

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Hermann Hesse

by Rudyard Kipling

by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Ernst Eckstein

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Vittorio Imbriani

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Louisa May Alcott

by Pekka Brofeldt

by Hans Arnold

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Enrico Castelnuovo

by Arno Marx

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Howard Roger Garis

by Marie Beeg

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Robert Louis Stevenson

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Armando Palacio Valdés

by Otto Ernst Schmidt

by Jack London

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by María de Zayas y Sotomayor

by Saki

by Alphonse Daudet