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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 Richard Rein Smith

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Eugène Muller

by Charles Heber Clark

by Mary Hallock Foote

by Walter Crane

by Gabriele D'Annunzio

by Maxwell Bodenheim

by Christoph von Schmid

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

by Mark Twain

by Theodore L. Thomas

by Arvid Järnefelt

by Zacharias Topelius

by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz

by Robert Seymour

by Pansy

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Gilbert Parker

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

by John McGreevey

by Gilbert Parker

by Molly Elliot Seawell

by B. M. Bower

by Max Dauthendey

by Julian F. Grow

by Emil Elenius

by Heinrich Hoffmann

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

by E. C. (Ernest Clark) Hartwell

by Washington Irving

by Rudyard Kipling

by Kurt Vonnegut

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Frank Herbert

by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

by Rudyard Kipling

by Walter Crane

by Norman Hinsdale Pitman

by Will C. (Will Croft) Barnes

by Gilbert Parker

by Robert Louis Stevenson

by Guy de Maupassant

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Alice Brown

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Karl Emil Franzos

by Johanna Spyri

by Various Authors

by Machado de Assis

by Harold Frederic

by James Oliver Curwood

by Jack London

by Clara Dillingham Pierson

by Fanny Fern

by Bret Harte

by J. (Jules) Barbey d'Aurevilly

by Edward Everett Hale

by Various Authors

by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville, Martin Ross

by Ray Bradbury

by Bret Harte

by Aldous Huxley

by Henry Kuttner

by Sarah Orne Jewett

by Clara Kern Bayliss

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

by Helen Huber

by Various Authors

by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by John Hartley

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Guy de Maupassant

by Washington Irving

by Randall Garrett

by Arthur Morrison

by Théophile Gautier

by Marshall Saunders

by Edmondo De Amicis

by Perceval Gibbon

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

by Jeannette Augustus Marks

by Dean Evans

by Keith Laumer

by Murray Leinster

by Isabelle Eberhardt

by Florence Marryat

by Miriam Allen De Ford

by Various Authors

by Jean de La Fontaine