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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 Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by Abraham Cahan

by J. P. (Jens Peter) Jacobsen

by Juliana Horatia Ewing

by George Washington Cable

by Edward Eggleston

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

by Hannah More

by Frank R. Stockton

by Jakob Wassermann

by Mary Hallock Foote

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Charles Perrault

by Alphonse Daudet

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 Mary Hallock Foote

by Jakob Wassermann

by Alphonse Daudet

by Jakob Wassermann

by James Hogg

by Peter Rosegger

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

by Ludwig Thoma

by N. S. (Nikolai Semenovich) Leskov

by Charles Sellers

by Jacobus Jan Cremer

by Louis Becke

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Albert Bigelow Paine

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Walter Scott

by Agatha Christie

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Rudyard Kipling

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

by Various Authors

by Ouida

by Arthur Achleitner

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

by Enrico Castelnuovo

by Mark Twain

by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by James Joyce

by Clara Dillingham Pierson

by Various Authors

by J. H. Erkko

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

by Ludwig Bechstein

by Booth Tarkington

by Jack London

by Honoré de Balzac

by Hermann Hesse

by Juhani Aho

by Rudyard Kipling

by Ernst Eckstein

by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

by Vittorio Imbriani

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Nescio

by Louisa May Alcott

by Arthur Morrison

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Armando Palacio Valdés

by Wilhelm Raabe

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Jack London

by Louisa May Alcott

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Hans Arnold

by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

by Arno Marx

by Rabindranath Tagore

by Edgar Allan Poe

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Rudyard Kipling

by Robert Louis Stevenson

by Edith Wharton

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Pekka Brofeldt

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Arthur Conan Doyle