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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 Tallemant des Réaux

by Gottfried Keller

by Ella Farman Pratt, Lucia Chase Bell, Frank H. Converse, Louise Stockton

by Louisa May Alcott

by Honoré de Balzac

by Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko

by Kenneth Grahame

by Various Authors

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin

by Anna Katharine Green

by Julian Hawthorne

by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

by Henry Seton Merriman

by Lord Dunsany

by Henry Slesar

by Elbert Hubbard

by Henry Van Dyke

by Bret Harte

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by M. Y. Halidom

by George Manville Fenn

by Various Authors

by Frank R. Stockton

by George Waring

by Louis Becke

by Georges Clemenceau

by Various Authors

by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

by Howard Roger Garis

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

by Edward Bellamy

by Katharine Pyle

by William John Hopkins

by Rudyard Kipling

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Andreas Karkavitsas

by Richard Dehan

by Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold) La Motte

by R. D. (Robert Dalziel) Cumming

by Carl Ewald

by Alexander Leighton

by Henryk Sienkiewicz

by Charles Dickens

by Carleton B. (Carleton Britton) Case

by Louis Becke

by Clee Garson

by Boyd Cable

by Anonymous

by Various Authors

by Amy Walton

by Various Authors

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

by Seumas O'Brien

by W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison) Murray

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Harle Oren Cummins

by Jean McIntosh

by Frank Herbert

by Rudyard Kipling

by Zoltán Thury

by William Clark Russell

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Various Authors

by Ellen Tracy Alden

by Mary Stewart Cutting

by Ray Bradbury

by Julia Thompson von Stosch Schayer

by Robert F. Young

by Louis Trimble

by Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

by Robert E. Gilbert

by Fanny Fern

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by George O. (George Oliver) Smith

by Various Authors

by Per Hallström

by George V. (George Vere) Hobart

by Various Authors

by Catulle Mendès

by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

by G. L. Vandenburg

by Andrew Fetler

by Neil Munro

by Various Authors

by Samuli Suomalainen

by Various Authors

by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

by Selma Lagerlöf

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Fredrika Charlotta Tengström Runeberg