Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 9

This book contains70 short storiesfrom 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the criticAugust Nemo, in a collection that will please theliterature lovers.

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This book contains:

- John Galsworthy:The First and Last

A Stoic

The Apple Tree

The Juryman

Indian Summer of a Forsyte

The Hedonist

Buttercup Night

- Théophile Gautier:Clarimonde

The Mummy's Foot

One Of Cleopatra's Night

Omphale: A Rococo Story

King Candaules

Arria Marcella

The Romance of a Mummy

- Paul Heyse:The Dead Lake

Doomed

Beatrice

Beginning, and End

L'Arrabiata!

Count Ernest's Home

Blind

- Selma Lagerlöf:The Holy Night

The Emperor's Vision

The Wise Men's Well

Bethlehem's Children

The Flight Into Egypt

In Nazareth

In The Temple

- Thomas Burke:The Chink and the Child

The Father of Yoto

Gracie Goodnight

The Paw

The Cue

Beryl, the Croucher and the Rest of England

The Sign of the Lamp

- E. Nesbit:The Ebony Frame

John Charrington's Wedding

Uncle Abraham's Romance

The Mystery Of The Semi-Detached

From The Dead

Man-Size In Marble

The Mass For The Dead

- Arthur Morrison:That Brute Simmos

A Poor Stick

Behind the Shade

To Bow Bridges

A Conversation

All That Messuage

Three Hounds

- Stacy Aumonier:A Source of Irritation

Where Was Wych Street?

Burney's Laugh

The Chinese Philosopher and the European War

Cricket

George

"Solemn-Looking Blokes"