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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 Alfredo Panzini

by Sándor Bródy

by B. M. Bower

by David R. Bunch

by Mór Jókai

by Géza Lampérth

by Various Authors

by Sándor Petőfi

by Fritz Müller-Partenkirchen

by Bret Harte

by Ferenc Molnár

by Gusztáv Lauka

by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

by Rudyard Kipling

by Frigyes Karinthy

by Eugène Montfort

by Roy Norton

by Konrad Lehtimäki

by Ignotus

by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

by George Meredith

by Anonymous

by Various Authors

by Ernest Hemingway

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

by Sargent Kayme

by Spinners' Club

by Gustav Meyrink

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Grace Elizabeth King

by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

by Fyodor Sologub

by Ioan Slavici

by M. Y. Halidom

by Sarah Grames Clark

by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

by Caroline Lee Hentz

by Various Authors

by Howard Roger Garis

by Hamlin Garland

by Paul Heyse

by Various Authors

by P. L. Jacob

by Honoré de Balzac

by Various Authors

by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Various Authors

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

by Marshall Mather

by Cornelia Sorabji

by Caroline Stewart

by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

by Annie Frances Perram

by Various Authors

by Jane L. (Jane Lincoln) Hoxie

by Berkeley Livingston

by Various Authors

by Bartimeus

by Adolfo Albertazzi

by Boyd Ellanby

by H. A. (Henry Anderson) Bryden

by Dwight V. Swain

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Various Authors

by Emma Louise Smith Dillingham, William N. (William Nevins) Armstrong, George Harrison De La Vergne, James W. (James Walter) Girvin

by Clara Berg

by Maksim Gorky

by Baron Walter Runciman

by William P. McGivern

by David Gray

by George Paul Goff

by Arthur Schnitzler

by James L. (James Lauren) Ford

by Various Authors

by A. Paul Gardiner

by Madeline Yale Wynne

by Various Authors

by William W. Stuart

by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, Allan Cunningham, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, John Wilson

by Edward Berens

by William Carleton

by Édouard Laboulaye

by Guy de Maupassant

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by John Foster West