Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 6

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:





- Kathleen Norris:Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby

What Happened to Alanna

Austin's Girl

S is for Shiftless Susanna

Making Allowances for Mamma

Dr. Bates and Miss Sally

Rising Water



- Charles W. Chesnutt:The Wife of His Youth

The Passing of Grandison

Her Virginia Mammy

The Bouquet

The Sheriffs' Children

The Web of Circunstance



- Don Marquis:The Old Soak

The Revolt of the Oyster

The Professor's Awakening

The Saddest Man

Behind the Curtain

Kale

Too American



- Emma Orczy:The Red Carnation

The Traitor

Number 187

The Trappist's Vow

Juliette, a Tale of Terror

The Revenge of Ur-Tasen

The Glasgow Mistery



- Zona Gale:Friday

Sucess and Artie Cherry

The Dance

The Way thw World Is

White Bread

Human

Exit Charity



- Anthony Trollope:The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box

The Mistletoe Bough

The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne

Returning Home

An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids

The Courtship of Susan Bell

The Relics of General Chasse



- Ellis Parker Butler:Pigs is Pigs

The Hard-boiled Egg

Philo Gubb's Greatest Case

Solander's Radio Tomb

The Thin Santa Claus

Dey Ain't No Ghosts

The Man Who Did Not Go to Heaven on Tuesday



- Mary Shelley:The Invisible Girl

The Brother and Sister

The Dream

Transformation

The Mortal Immortal

The Mourner

The Swiss Peasant



- Hector Hugh Munro:The Lumber Room

The Open Window

Sredni Vashtar

Gabriel-Ernest

Tobermory

The Unrest-Cure

Laura



- D.H. Lawrence:The Rocking-Horse Winner

Tickets, Please!

The Odour of Chrysanthemums

The Horse Dealer's Daughter

Second Best

The Shades of Spring

The Fox



Kathleen Thompson Norris (July 16, 1880 January 18, 1966) was an American novelist and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States for nearly fifty years, from 1911 to 1959.

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Charles W. Chesnutt, in full Charles Waddell Chesnutt, (born June 20, 1858, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.died Nov. 15, 1932, Cleveland), first important black American novelist.

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Don Marquis, byname of Donald Robert Perry Marquis, (born July 29, 1878, Walnut, Ill., U.S.died Dec. 29, 1937, New York City), U.S. newspaperman, poet, and playwright, creator of the literary characters Archy, the cockroach, and Mehitabel, the cat, wry, down-and-out philosophers of the 1920s.

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Baroness Emmuska Orczy, (born September 23, 1865, Tarnaörs, Hungarydied November 12, 1947, London, England), Hungarian-born British novelist chiefly remembered as author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, one of the greatest popular successes of the 20th century.

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Zona Gale, (born Aug. 26, 1874, Portage, Wis., U.S.died Dec. 27, 1938, Chicago, Ill.), American novelist and playwright whose Miss Lulu Bett (1920) established her as a realistic chronicler of Midwestern village life.

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Anthony Trollope, (born April 24, 1815, London, Eng.died Dec. 6, 1882, London), English novelist whose popular success concealed until long after his death the nature and extent of his literary merit.

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Ellis Parker Butler, American Author, Humorist and Speaker Born: December 5, 1869; Muscatine, Iowa. Died: September 13, 1937; Williamsville, Massachusetts. Author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays.

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Mary Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, in London, England. She married poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816. Two years later, she published her most famous novel, Frankenstein.

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Born in Burma in 1870, H.H. Munro worked as a journalist before gaining fame as a short story writer under the pen name "Saki." His works, which include the classic stories "Tobermory" and "The Open Window," offer a satirical commentary on Edwardian society and culture.

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Born in England in 1885, D.H. Lawrence is regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He published many novels and poetry volumes during his lifetime, including Sons and Lovers and Women in Love, but is best known for his infamous Lady Chatterley's Lover. He died in France in 1930.