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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 Hannah More

by Maria Edgeworth

by Abraham Cahan

by J. P. (Jens Peter) Jacobsen

by Juliana Horatia Ewing

by George Washington Cable

by Edward Eggleston

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

by Frank R. Stockton

by Mary Hallock Foote

by Alphonse Daudet

by Jakob Wassermann

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Charles Perrault

by Jakob Wassermann

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

by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

by Alphonse Daudet

by Mary Hallock Foote

by Théophile Gautier

by James Hogg

by Jakob Wassermann

by Jakob Wassermann

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by Edward Eggleston

by Peter Rosegger

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

by Ludwig Thoma

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 Mengchu Ling

by Agatha Christie

by Various Authors

by Walter Scott

by Xun Lu

by Rudyard Kipling

by Various Authors

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

by Mark Twain

by Various Authors

by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Arthur Achleitner

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Ouida

by Hermann Hesse

by Menglong Feng

by Enrico Castelnuovo

by James Joyce

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Various Authors

by Ernst Eckstein

by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

by J. H. Erkko

by Ludwig Bechstein

by Honoré de Balzac

by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

by Clara Dillingham Pierson

by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

by Louisa May Alcott

by Armando Palacio Valdés

by Juhani Aho

by Jack London

by Robert Louis Stevenson

by Rudyard Kipling

by Vittorio Imbriani

by Booth Tarkington

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

by Saki

by Kate Chopin

by Arthur Morrison

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Nescio

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Wilhelm Raabe

by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

by Rudyard Kipling

by Vittorio Bersezio

by Väinö Hämeen-Anttila

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Jean de La Fontaine