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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 King of Navarre consort of Henry II Queen Marguerite

by Brander Matthews

by Rabindranath Tagore

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Stewart Edward White

by Ambrose Bierce

by Pang Im, Yuk Yi

by Jack London

by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

by Joel Chandler Harris

by Charles Dickens

by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Andrew Lang

by Jack London

by Clarence Louis Cullen

by Algernon Blackwood

by Guy de Maupassant

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

by Edgar Allan Poe

by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

by Gustave Flaubert

by Sara Cone Bryant

by Washington Irving

by Guy de Maupassant

by Ambrose Bierce

by Josephine Clifford McCrackin

by Rudyard Kipling
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by Henry James

by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

by Bill Nye

by Joseph Conrad

by Louis Becke

by Wilhelm Hauff

by Israel Zangwill

by Joaquín Álvarez Quintero, Serafín Álvarez Quintero, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, José Echegaray, Concha Espina, Wenceslao Fernández-Flórez, Gutiérrez Gamero, Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent, J. (José) Ortega Munilla, Alvaro Retana, Diego San José, Bernardo Morales San Martín, Felipe Trigo

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Barry Pain

by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by Thomas Hardy

by William Sharp

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

by George Ade

by Charles Dickens

by E. K. (Eldred Kurtz) Means

by Guy de Maupassant

by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Adelaide Anne Procter

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Various Authors

by Ambrose Bierce

by Jr. John Fox

by Eliza Leslie

by Guy de Maupassant

by Nilo María Fabra

by François Coppée

by Amelia E. Barr

by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

by Leopoldo Alas

by Harlan Ellison

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Elsie Singmaster

by Various Authors

by Henriette Dietz, Katharina Leopold

by Various Authors

by James Johonnot

by Gouverneur Morris

by Ray Bradbury

by H. C. (Henry Cuyler) Bunner

by Mack Reynolds

by Frank Frankfort Moore

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Thad. W. H. (Thaddeus William Henry) Leavitt

by Various Authors

by Prosper Mérimée

by Various Authors

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

by Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt

by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

by Fanny Fern

by Harriet Myrtle

by Leonard Woolf

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Jacinto Octavio Picón

by Zona Gale

by David Pinski

by Kris Neville

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Henry Harland

by Josephine Daskam Bacon