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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 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

by Zane Grey

by Josep Carner

by Maurice Hewlett

by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe

by Robert Seymour

by Rudyard Kipling

by Maud Menefee

by Various Authors

by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

by Zitkala-Sa

by Louisa May Alcott

by Franz Kafka

by Mary Antin, Elizabeth Ashe, Kathleen Carman, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Mazo De la Roche, Annie Hamilton Donnell, James Edmund Dunning, Rebecca Hooper Eastman, William Addleman Ganoe, Lucy Huffaker, Joseph Husband, S. H. Kemper, Christina Krysto, Ellen Mackubin, Edith Ronald Mirrielees, Margaret Prescott Montague, Edward Morlae, Meredith Nicholson, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Laura Spencer Portor, Lucy Pratt, Elsie Singmaster, Charles Haskins Townsend, Edith Wyatt

by Hamlin Garland

by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

by Clara Dillingham Pierson

by George MacDonald

by Charles Dickens

by Mark Twain

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Thomas Wallace Knox

by Various Authors

by Guy de Maupassant

by Howard Roger Garis

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

by Lord Dunsany

by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

by Jules Girardin

by Amy Walton

by B. M. (Bithia Mary) Croker

by Anatole Le Braz

by Henry Van Dyke

by Holger Drachmann

by Chas. A. Stopher

by Paolo Bettoni

by Herman Melville

by Washington Irving

by Edgar Allan Poe

by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

by Oscar Wilde

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Beatrix Potter

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

by Eça de Queirós

by Émile Zola

by Rudyard Kipling

by O. Henry

by Honoré de Balzac

by Jane Andrews

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Emile Blémont

by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

by George Ade

by Carleton B. (Carleton Britton) Case

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Stewart Edward White

by John Hartley

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Rebecca Harding Davis, Thomas De Quincey, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

by Louis Becke

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by George Washington Cable

by William Clark Russell

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Florence Marryat

by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Stephen Marlowe

by Wilhelm Hauff

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Jean de La Fontaine

by M. H. (Matthew Henry) Barker

by Various Authors

by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

by Lafcadio Hearn

by Franz Kafka

by Anna Katharine Green

by Sarah S. (Sarah Schoonmaker) Baker

by Edward Everett Hale

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Mary Graham Bonner

by Miss (Julia) Pardoe

by Ida Coe, Alice Christie Dillon

by Elizabeth Ashe, Henry Seidel Canby, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie) Doty, H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight, John Galsworthy, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Katharine Butler Hathaway, Zephine Humphrey, Mary Lerner, F. J. Louriet, E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas, Margaret Lynn, C. A. Mercer, Margaret Prescott Montague, E. (Edith) Nesbit, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Dallas Lore Sharp, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Ernest Starr, Amy Wentworth Stone, Arthur Russell Taylor

by Mrs. Alfred Gatty

by Robert Barr

by Arthur Machen

by Charles Dickens