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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 Berthold Auerbach

by Edna Ferber

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Randall Garrett

by Luiz Augusto Rebello da Silva

by Bret Harte

by Parker Fillmore

by Rex Beach

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

by Frederick Marryat

by Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen

by George Ade

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by Caroline Sturgis Tappan, Lydia Maria Child

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Ernest Bramah

by Mary Hallock Foote

by Various Authors

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Antonio Ghislanzoni

by Achmed Abdullah, Max Brand, E. K. (Eldred Kurtz) Means, Perley Poore Sheehan

by Katherine MacLean

by Harry Harrison

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Abbie Phillips Walker

by Ellen Robena Field

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by George V. (George Vere) Hobart

by Florence Marryat

by Maxwell Bodenheim

by Philip José Farmer

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Silas Xavier Floyd

by Randall Garrett

by Gilbert Parker

by Molly Elliot Seawell

by Bryce Walton

by R. W. Major

by Richard Rein Smith

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by King of Navarre consort of Henry II Queen Marguerite

by Arthur Machen

by Stephen Crane

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Joseph Conrad

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

by Thomas Hardy

by Evelyn Sharp

by Aesop

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Guy de Maupassant

by Stephen Crane

by Henry Lawson

by William Carleton

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Sarah Orne Jewett

by Leonid Andreyev

by Honoré de Balzac

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by George A. Birmingham

by Louisa May Alcott

by Albert Payson Terhune

by Francis A. (Francis Alexander) Durivage

by Talbot Baines Reed

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Anonymous

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by G. P. (Georgi Porfirievich) Stamatov

by Susan Coolidge

by Henry Kuttner

by A. E. (Alfred Edgar) Coppard

by O. Henry

by Various Authors

by Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson) Ward

by James H. Schmitz

by Per Hallström, Verner von Heidenstam, Sigfrid Siwertz, Hjalmar Söderberg

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

by Louise Chandler Moulton

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Katharine Pyle

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by W. L. (William Livingston) Alden
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by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Frances Henshaw Baden

by Walter Crane

by Gabriele D'Annunzio

by Jeannette Augustus Marks

by Henry Inman

by Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

by Pietro Thouar

by Rosel George Brown

by Alexandros Moraitides

by Zacharias Topelius