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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 Howard Roger Garis

by Nelson S. Bond

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Fitz James O'Brien

by James A. (James Albert) Frye

by Guy de Maupassant

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

by L. L. (Lucy L.) Weedon, Sheila Braine, May Byron, Evelyn Everett-Green, George Manville Fenn, Lilian Gask, G. R. (Geraldine Robertson) Glasgow, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty, D. H. Parry

by R. A. Lafferty

by Hans Hoffmann, Helene Böhlau, Max Eyth, Otto Ernst Schmidt

by Various Authors

by comte de Arthur Gobineau

by B. M. (Bithia Mary) Croker

by Henry James

by George H. (George Henry) Smith

by Edmond Hamilton

by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

by Bill Garson

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Sigge Strömberg

by Ralph Williams

by Jean de La Fontaine

by John Victor Peterson

by Selma Lagerlöf

by Various Authors

by Frédéric Boutet

by Salvatore Di Giacomo

by Max Dauthendey

by Watson Parker

by Alfredo Panzini

by Gyula Krúdy

by Luigi Capuana

by Kris Neville

by Mór Jókai

by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by August Strindberg

by Maksim Gorky

by Zsigmond Móricz

by Arvi Järventaus

by Various Authors

by Louisa May Alcott

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Louisa May Alcott

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Herman Melville

by Stephen Leacock

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Robert Louis Stevenson

by Washington Irving

by Grant Allen

by active 12th century de France Marie

by Joseph Conrad

by William Hope Hodgson

by Louisa May Alcott

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Charles Dickens

by William Alexander Fraser

by Ambrose Bierce

by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

by Wilkie Collins

by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

by Various Authors

by Albert Bigelow Paine

by Abbie Phillips Walker

by Jacinto Octavio Picón

by Margaret Arndt

by Jack London

by Eliza Leslie

by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

by Infante of Castile Juan Manuel

by Various Authors

by Percy J. Billinghurst

by Edwin Lefevre

by Randall Garrett

by Percy Fitzpatrick

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

by Various Authors

by Frank R. Stockton

by James Janeway

by Jules Gabriel Janin

by Ambrose Bierce

by Joel Chandler Harris

by Stratton D. (Stratton Duluth) Brooks

by Florence Finch Kelly

by Lydia Maria Child

by Louis Becke

by Various Authors

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by E. K. (Eldred Kurtz) Means

by Trindade Coelho

by W. C. (William Charles) Scully