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"



John Galsworthy (14 August 1867 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (19061921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.

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Théophile Gautier, byname le bon Théo, (born August 31, 1811, Tarbes, Francedied October 23, 1872, Neuilly-sur-Seine), poet, novelist, critic, and journalist.

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Paul Heyse (15 March 1830 2 April 1914) was a distinguished German writer and translator. A member of two important literary societies, the Tunnel über der Spree in Berlin and Die Krokodile in Munich, he wrote novels, poetry, 177 short stories, and about sixty dramas. The sum of Heyse's many and varied productions made him a dominant figure among German men of letters.

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Selma Lagerlöf, in full Selma Ottiliana Lovisa Lagerlöf, (born Nov. 20, 1858, Mårbacka, Swedendied March 16, 1940, Mårbacka), novelist who in 1909 became the first woman and also the first Swedish writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

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Thomas Burke (29 November 1886 22 September 1945) was a British author. He was born in Eltham, London (back then still part of Kent). His first successful publication was Limehouse Nights (1916), a collection of stories centred on life in the poverty-stricken Limehouse district of London. Many of Burke's books feature the Chinese character Quong Lee as narrator.

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E. Nesbit, in full Edith Nesbit, (born August 15, 1858, London, Englanddied May 4, 1924, New Romney, Kent), British children's author, novelist, and poet.

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Arthur Morrison (1 November 1863 4 December 1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, and for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt. He also collected Japanese art and published several works on the subject. He left a large collection of paintings and other works of art to the British Museum after his death in 1945.

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Stacy Aumonier was a British writer. Between 1913 and 1928, he wrote more than 85 short stories, 6 novels, a volume of character studies and a volume of 15 essays.