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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 Gilbert Parker

by W. L. (William Livingston) Alden

by Louise Chandler Moulton

by Various Authors

by Pietro Fanfani

by Silas Xavier Floyd

by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

by Guy de Maupassant

by Evan Hunter

by King of Navarre consort of Henry II Queen Marguerite

by Rudyard Kipling

by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

by Charles Herbert Sylvester

by Baroness Emmuska Orczy

by Various Authors

by Louisa May Alcott

by Guy de Maupassant

by Giovanni Boccaccio

by Robert Barr

by Joseph Conrad

by Joel Chandler Harris

by Guy de Maupassant

by Edna Ferber

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Bret Harte

by Sarah Orne Jewett

by Leonid Andreyev

by Honoré de Balzac

by Randall Garrett

by Bret Harte

by Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

by Frederick Marryat

by Talbot Baines Reed

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by John Kendrick Bangs

by R. Rice Davies

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Mark Twain

by Susan Coolidge

by Francesco Dall'Ongaro

by George Parsons Lathrop

by Fred C. (Frederick Carruthers) Cornell

by Various Authors

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Katherine MacLean

by Abbie Phillips Walker

by Erckmann-Chatrian

by Honoré Beaugrand
by Jørgen Engebretsen Moe, Zacharias Topelius

by George Parsons Lathrop

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Melville Davisson Post

by Arthur Dekker Savage

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by George V. (George Vere) Hobart

by Bryce Walton

by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann, Bettina von Arnim, Adolph Bayersdorfer, Friedrich Theodor Fischer, Ludwig Thoma, Henry F. Urban

by Armand Silvestre

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Walter M. Miller

by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

by Arthur Schnitzler

by Oscar Wilde

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

by Charles King

by Katherine Mansfield

by Charles Dickens

by Guy de Maupassant

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Ernest Hemingway

by Edward Everett Hale

by Stephen Leacock

by Katherine Mansfield

by Ouida

by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson

by Andy Adams

by Lord Dunsany

by Henry Lawson

by Henry Lawson

by Thomas Hardy

by Henry Lawson

by Philip K. Dick

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Giovanni Boccaccio

by Berthold Auerbach

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Bret Harte