Description

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. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections.
This book contains:

- Nathaniel Hawthorne:Endicott and the Red Cross
Young Goodman Brown
Ethan Brand
My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Earth's Holocaust
The Gray Champion
The Minister's Black Veil

- Virginia Woolf:A Haunted House
Kew Gardens
An Unwritten Novel
Solid Objects
The Mark on the Wall
Mrs. Dalloway in the Bond Street
The Lady in the Looking Glass

- Henry James:The Beast ih the Jungle
The Figure in the Carpet
Paste
The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
The Story of a Year
The Altar of the Dead
Married Son

- Mark Twain:About Barbers
A Dog's Tale
A Ghost Story
A Monument to Adam
Eve's Diary
Extracts from Adam's Diary
The Stolen White Elephant

- Guy de Maupassant:The Necklace
Mademoiselle Fifi
Miss Harriet
My Uncle Jules
Boule de Suif
The Wreck
The Hand

- Charlotte Perkins:When I Was a Witch
The Yellow Wallpaper
If I were a man
The Giant Wistaria
The Boys And The Butter!
The Cottagette
A Middle Sized Artist

- Elizabeth Gaskell:The Old Nurse Story
The Poor Clare
Lois The Witch
The Grey Woman
Curious If True
Six Weeks At Heppenheim
Disappearances

- Herman Melville:Bartleby, the Scrivener
Benito Cereno
The Encantadas
The Chase
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!
I and My Chimney
The Lightning-Rod Man

- Katherine Mansfield:The Garden Party
The Daughters of the Late Colonel
Bliss
Prelude
At the bay
Je ne parle pas francais
How Pearl Button was Kidnapped

- Jack London:The Law of Life
To Build a Fire
That Spot
All Gold Canyon
An Odyssey of the North
A Piece of Steak
Lost Face