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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 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 Jakob Wassermann

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 James Hogg

by Jakob Wassermann

by Alphonse Daudet

by Peter Rosegger

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Ludwig Thoma

by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

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 Various Authors

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Various Authors

by Agatha Christie

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

by Arthur Achleitner

by Various Authors

by Rudyard Kipling

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Ouida

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

by Enrico Castelnuovo

by Booth Tarkington

by Mark Twain

by J. H. Erkko

by Various Authors

by Juhani Aho

by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Nescio

by James Joyce

by Ludwig Bechstein

by Jack London

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

by Arthur Morrison

by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

by Hermann Hesse

by Ernst Eckstein

by Vittorio Imbriani

by Rudyard Kipling

by Wilhelm Raabe

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Honoré de Balzac

by Clara Dillingham Pierson

by Hans Arnold

by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

by Louisa May Alcott

by Louisa May Alcott

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Rabindranath Tagore

by Saki

by Arno Marx

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Jack London

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Pekka Brofeldt

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Rudyard Kipling

by Robert Louis Stevenson

by Howard Roger Garis

by Armando Palacio Valdés

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov