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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 Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

by Lilyan Stratton

by Georg Busse-Palma

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

by Richard Wilson

by F. Burge (Frances Burge) Griswold

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Various Authors

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

by Tom Purdom

by Zacharias Topelius

by Jacinto Octavio Picón

by A. G. Bagot

by Josephine Daskam Bacon

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Marcel Schwob

by Guy de Maupassant

by Anonymous

by Mrs. Molesworth

by Lajos Biró

by comte de Arthur Gobineau

by Zsigmond Móricz

by Evelyn E. Smith

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

by Norman Arkawy

by Randall Garrett, Robert Silverberg

by Mack Reynolds

by Aimée Crocker Gouraud

by John Victor Peterson

by Gilbert Parker

by Various Authors

by Frédéric Boutet

by A. L. O. E.

by Juhani Aho

by Jaakko Ikola

by Lajos Biró

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Various Authors

by Albert Ehrenstein

by Kris Neville

by Konni Zilliacus

by Mór Jókai

by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

by Mór Jókai, Antonio de Trueba

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Alphonse Daudet

by Zsigmond Sebők

by Various Authors

by Joel Chandler Harris

by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

by Louisa May Alcott

by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

by Various Authors

by Ricarda Huch

by John Milne

by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

by Menglong Feng

by Jean Ingelow

by Jack London

by Washington Irving

by Joseph Conrad

by Andrew Lang

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Cynthia Stockley

by W. H. D. (William Henry Denham) Rouse

by Lucy Sprague Mitchell

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by Kenneth Grahame

by Jun Yue

by Various Authors

by Mrs. Angus W. Hall

by Albert Bigelow Paine

by Alice Brown

by Ian Maclaren

by Various Authors

by Gilbert Parker

by Margaret Arndt

by Guy de Maupassant

by Mrs. Molesworth

by Joseph Conrad

by William Crooke, W. H. D. (William Henry Denham) Rouse

by Mrs. W. K. Clifford

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Gilbert Parker

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 João Marques de Carvalho

by Randall Garrett

by George Bird Grinnell