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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 Edgar Allan Poe

by Mengchu Ling

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Maud Menefee

by Frank R. Stockton

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

by Zitkala-Sa

by Edith Wharton

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Andrew Lang

by S. Mukerji

by Jack London

by Miss (Julia) Pardoe

by Various Authors

by Jack London

by George MacDonald

by Jack London

by Rudyard Kipling

by Lord Dunsany

by Alphonse Daudet

by Armand Silvestre

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Robert Arthur

by Kostas Krystalles

by M. H. (Matthew Henry) Barker

by K. A. (Kaarlo August) Järvi

by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe

by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Rudyard Kipling

by Beatrix Potter

by Guy de Maupassant

by Henry James

by John Buchan

by Charles K. (Charles Kellogg) Field, Will Irwin

by Anatole France

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Mrs. Alfred Gatty

by Louis Becke

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

by Charles Dickens

by Stephen Leacock

by Édouard Laboulaye

by Various Authors

by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

by George Sand

by Frank R. Stockton, Edgar Fawcett, Franklin Fyles, Anna Katharine Green, Henry Harland, Ingersoll Lockwood, Joaquin Miller, Kirk Munroe, Brainard Gardner Smith, Maurice Thompson, A. C. (Andrew Carpenter) Wheeler

by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

by Albert Payson Terhune

by Pierre Mille

by Holger Drachmann

by Various Authors

by O. Henry

by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

by Oscar Wilde

by Jack London

by George MacDonald

by W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie

by Hamlin Garland

by Sarah Orne Jewett

by George MacDonald

by Mark Twain

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

by Charles Herbert Sylvester

by Charles Herbert Sylvester

by Howard Roger Garis

by Charles Dickens

by Juliana Horatia Ewing

by Ray Bradbury

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by H. Beam Piper

by Virginia Frazer Boyle

by B. M. (Bithia Mary) Croker

by Anatole Le Braz

by Various Authors
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by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Josephine Siebe

by Ouida

by Kasimir Edschmid

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Charles Nodier

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Thomas Peter Krag

by Various Authors

by Washington Irving

by Beatrix Potter

by Eça de Queirós