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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 Ambrose Bierce

by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Jack London

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Various Authors

by Hans Arnold

by Rabindranath Tagore

by Edith Wharton

by Saki

by Ambrose Bierce

by Louisa May Alcott

by Marie Beeg

by Arno Marx

by Lafcadio Hearn

by Charles Dickens

by Alphonse Allais

by Emile Verhaeren

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Rainer Maria Rilke

by Howard Roger Garis

by Rudyard Kipling

by George Ade

by Rudyard Kipling

by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

by Maria Edgeworth

by María de Zayas y Sotomayor

by Edgar Allan Poe

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Rog Phillips

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Otto Ernst Schmidt

by Rudyard Kipling

by Alphonse Daudet

by Pekka Brofeldt

by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

by Pío Baroja, Jacinto Benavente, Rubén Darío, Joaquín Dicenta, Ricardo León, Pedro Mata, José Nogales, Armando Palacio Valdés, condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán, Benito Pérez Galdós, Pedro de Répide, Arturo Reyes, Miguel de Unamuno

by Juliana Horatia Ewing

by Enrico Castelnuovo

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

by Alfred Coppel

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Dorothy Scarborough

by Sherwood Anderson

by Ana de Castro Osório

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Sui Sin Far

by Maria Edgeworth

by Guy de Maupassant

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Paul Heyse

by Heinrich von Kleist

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Charles Dickens

by Suze (Suzanna Maria) Andriessen

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Katherine Mansfield

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Lord Dunsany

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Arsène Houssaye

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb, James Oliver Curwood, Edna Ferber, Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne, Meredith Nicholson, H. C. (Harry Charles) Witwer

by Alphonse Daudet

by Alfredo Panzini

by King of Navarre consort of Henry II Queen Marguerite

by Bret Harte

by Guy de Maupassant

by O. Henry

by Guy de Maupassant

by Guy de Maupassant

by Alfred Döblin

by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

by Fritz Barschdorff

by Rudyard Kipling

by Robert Louis Stevenson

by Richard Garnett

by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith

by Arthur Morrison

by Jack London

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Frances Margaret Fox

by Selma Lagerlöf

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Max Dauthendey

by Karl August Tavaststjerna

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

by O. Henry

by Lewis Carroll

by Lord Dunsany

by Guy de Maupassant