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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 Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

by Pansy

by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Alfredo Panzini

by H. (Henry) Bedford-Jones

by Arthur Schnitzler

by Oscar Wilde

by Julian F. Grow

by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

by Heinrich Hoffmann

by E. C. (Ernest Clark) Hartwell

by Rounsevelle Wildman

by Washington Irving

by Katherine Mansfield

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Rudyard Kipling

by Ernest Hemingway

by Kurt Vonnegut

by Edward Everett Hale

by Talbot Baines Reed

by Frank Herbert

by Andy Adams

by Robert Barr

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Philip K. Dick

by Giovanni Boccaccio

by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Palmer Cox

by Bret Harte

by Various Authors

by Machado de Assis

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by Clara Dillingham Pierson

by J. (Jules) Barbey d'Aurevilly

by Edward Everett Hale

by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

by R. Rice Davies

by Arthur Schnitzler

by Bret Harte

by Aldous Huxley

by Mark Twain

by Salvatore Di Giacomo

by Sarah Orne Jewett

by Ray Bradbury

by Frederick Marryat

by Sarah Orne Jewett

by Jack McKenty

by Hermann Sudermann

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by Various Authors

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by Sewell Ford

by Jane Pentzer Myers

by Various Authors

by Honoré Beaugrand

by W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Denis Diderot

by Eduardo Zamacois

by Robert Louis Stevenson

by Melville Davisson Post

by Arthur Dekker Savage

by Richard Rein Smith

by Eugène Muller

by Charles Heber Clark

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Marshall Saunders

by Perceval Gibbon

by E. Parmalee (Ezra Parmalee) Prentice, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Guy de Maupassant, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson

by Bryce Walton

by Rog Phillips

by Otto Julius Bierbaum, Gorch Fock, Rudolf Presber, Wilhelm Schäfer, Karl Schönherr, Ludwig Thoma

by Murray Leinster

by Wilhelm Hauff

by G. Frank (George Frank) Lydston

by Robert Seymour

by Gilbert Parker

by Jr. L. J. Stecher

by Ricarda Huch

by Frigyes Karinthy

by Pan. (Panagiotes) Axiotes

by B. M. Bower

by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

by Evan Hunter

by Kalle Kajander

by Claus Stamm

by Rudyard Kipling

by Various Authors

by Guy de Maupassant

by Joel Chandler Harris

by Katherine Mansfield

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Guy de Maupassant

by Saki