Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 8

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:





- Émile Zola:

- Captain Burle

The Miller's Daughter

Jean Gourdon's Four Days

The Fete At Coqueville

The Flood

Death of Olivier Becaille

Nana





- Stewart Edward White:The Girl Who Got Rattled

Billy's Tenderfoot

The River-Boss

The Saving Grace

The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes

The Girl in Red

The Fifth Way



- Sarah Orne Jewett:A Winter Courtship

Going to Shrewsbury

The White Rose Road

The Town Poor

A Native of Winby

Looking Back on Girlhood

The Passing of Sister Barsett



- Willa CatherA Burglar's Christmas

A Wagner Matinee

On the Gull's Road

Paul's Case

The Enchanted Bluff

The Namesake

The Garden Lodge



- George AdeThe Fable of the Preacher Who Flew His Kite, But Not Because He Wished to Do So

The Fable of the Two Mandolin Players and His Willing Performer

The Fable of the Parents Who Tinkered with the Offspring

The Fable of the Man Who Didn't Care for Storybooks

The Fable of the Kid Who Shifted His Ideal

The Fable of How Uncle Brewster was Too Shifty for the Tempter

The Fable of Lutie, the False Alarm, and How She Finished about the Time that She Started



- Robert W. Chambers:The Messenger

The Repairer of Reputations

The Purple Emperor

Passeur

The Key to Grief

A Matter of Interest

Pompe Funèbre



- George GissingThe House Of Cobwebs

A Capitalist

Christopherson

Humplebee

The Scrupulous Father

A Poor Gentleman

Miss Rodney's Leisure



- Lord Dunsany:Chu-Bu and Sheemish

The Hoard of the Gibbelins

The Quest of the Queen's Tears

How One Came, As Was Foretold, To The City Of Never

The Wonderful Window

The Bride Of The Man Horse

The House Of The Sphinx



- Ruth McEnery Stuart:

Sonny's Christenin'

Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets

The Two Tims

Old Easter

Saint Idyl's Light

Little Mother Quackalina

Blink



- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson:The Railroad and the Churchyard

The Father

The Bridal March

One Day

Mother's Hands

Thrond

Absalom's Hair



Émile Zola was born April 2, 1840 in Paris, France. In 1865 he published his controversial first novel, La Confession de Claude. As the founder of the naturalist movement, Zola also published several treatises to explain his theories on art. He died on September 28, 1902.

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Stewart Edward White (12 March 1873 September 18, 1946) was an American writer, novelist, and spiritualist. He was a brother of noted mural painter Gilbert White.

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Sarah Orne Jewett, (born Sept. 3, 1849, South Berwick, Maine, U.S.died June 24, 1909, South Berwick), American writer of regional fiction that centred on life in Maine.

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Willa Catherpublished her first book of verses, April Twilights, in 1903. With O Pioneers! (1913) and My Ántonia (1918), which has frequently been seen as her finest achievement, she found her characteristic themesthe spirit and courage of the frontier she had known in her youth. One of Ours (1922), which won the Pulitzer Prize, and A Lost Lady (1923) mourned the passing of the pioneer spirit

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George Ade, (born Feb. 9, 1866, Kentland, Ind., U.S.died May 16, 1944, Brook, Ind.), American playwright and humorist whoseFables in Slangsummarized the kind of wisdom accumulated by the country boy in the city.

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Robert William Chambers(May 26, 1865 December 16, 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories titled The King in Yellow, published in 1895.

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George Robert Gissing(22 November 1857 28 December 1903) was an English novelist who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903.

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Lord Dunsany, 18th Baron of Dunsany,was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name Lord Dunsany.

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Ruth McEnery Stuart(18491917) was an American author.Stuart was active in her literary career from 1888 until 1917, producing some 75 works.

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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson(8 December 1832 26 April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit",