Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 1
Beschrijving van het boek
This book contains 70 short stories from 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.
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This book contains:
- Washington Irving:The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Rip Van Winkle
The Devil and Tom Walker
Christmas
Guest from Gibbet Island
The Legend of the Engulphed Convent
The Adventure of my Uncle
- Oscar Wilde:Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
The Sphinx without a Secret
A Model Millionaire
The Happy Prince
The Fisherman and his Soul
The Nightingale and the Rose
The Young King
- Bram Stoker:The Castle of the King
A Star Trap
The Secret of the Growing Gold
The Burial of the Rats
Dracula's Guest
The Squaw
The Judge's House
- H.G. Wells:The Time Machine
A Dream Of Armageddon
The Crystal Egg
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
The Flowering of the Strange Orchid
The Sea Riders
The Apple
- Arthur Conan Doyle:A Scandal In Bohemia
The Five Orange Pips
The Disintegration Machine
When the World Screamed
The Great Keinplatz Experiment
The Horror of the Heights
The Ring of Thoth
- E.T.A. Hoffman:The Golden Pot
The Sandman
Councillor Krespela
Automata
The Elementary Spirit
The Jesuits' Church in G--
The Story of the Hard Nut
- Rudyard Kipling:The Mark of the Beast
The Phantom 'Rickshaw
Mowgli's Brothers (from the Jungle Book)
Kaa's Hunting (from the Jungle Book)
Tiger! Tiger! (from the Jungle Book)
The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
The Man Who Would Be King
- Franz Kafka:The Metamorphosis
A Hunger Artist
In the penal colony
The Judgment
Before the Law
A Country Doctor
A Report to an Academy
- H.P. Lovecraft:The Call of Cthulhu
The Outsider
Pickman's Model
The Statement of Randolph Carter
The Colour out of Space
The Dunwich Horror
The Music of Erich Zann
- Edgar Allan Poe:The Tell-Tale Heart
The Cask of Amontillado
The Masque of the Red Death
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Black Cat
