Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 11

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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:
 
 A. E. W. Mason:The Affair At The Semiramis Hotel
 The Clock
 Green Paint
 Ensign Knightley
 The Man Of Wheels
 The Coward
 Keeper Of The Bishop
 
 Julian Hawthorne:David Poindexter's Disappearance.
 Ken's Mystery.
 When Halfgods Go, the Gods Arrive.
 Set Not Thy Foot on Graves.
 My Friend Paton.
 The Christmas Guest.
 The Laughing Mill
 
 Kenneth Grahame:The TwentyFirst of October
 Dies Irae
 Mutabile Semper
 The Magic Ring
 Its Walls Were as of Jasper
 A Saga of the Seas
 The Reluctant Dragon
 
 John Kendrick Bangs:The Water Ghost Of Harrowby Hall
 The Spectre Cook Of Bangletop
 A Midnight Visitor
 The Speck On The Lens
 A Quicksilver Cassandra
 The Ghost Club
 A Psychical Prank
 
 Frank R. Stockton:The BeeMan Of Orn.
 The Griffin And The Minor Canon.
 Old Pipes And The Dryad.
 The Queen's Museum.
 Prince Hassak's March.
 The Battle Of The Third Cousins.
 The Banished King.
 
 Jacques Futrelle:The Problem of Cell 13
 The Thinking Machine
 Five Millions by Wireless
 Kidnapped Baby Blake, Millionaire
 The Problem of the Motor Boat
 The Problem of the Opera Box
 The Problem of the Vanishing man
 
 Ella D'Arcy:Irremediable
 White Magic
 A Marriage
 In Normandy
 The PleasurePilgrim
 The Web of Maya
 An Engagement
 
 John Buchan:Politics and the Mayfly
 The Keeper of Cademuir
 The Wife of Flanders
 The Watcher by the Threshold
 Comedy in the Full Moon
 The Herd of Standlan
 
 E. F. Benson:The Room in the Tower
 Caterpillars
 Mrs. Amworth
 Mr. Tilly's Séance
 Negotium Perambulans
 How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery
 The HorrorHorn
 
 Daniil Kharms:Symphony no. 2
 On phenomena and existences - No. 1
 The thing
 Andrey Semyonovich
 An unexpected drinking bout
 The destiny of a professor's wife
 The memoirs of a wise old man

Autorenportrait

A. E. W. Mason (7 May 1865 22 November 1948) was an English author and politician. Julian Hawthorne was an American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 6 July 1932) was a Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. John Kendrick Bangs was an American author, humorist, editor and satirist. His name is immortalised in the term "Bangsian Fantasy". Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. Jacques Heath Futrelle (April 9, 1875 April 15, 1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer. He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Machine" for his application of logic to any and all situations. Futrelle died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Ella D'Arcy (23 August 1857 5 September 1937) was a short fiction writer in the late 19th and early 20th century. John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, (/26 August 1875 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederat E.F. Benson , in full Edward Frederic Benson , (born July 24, 1867, Wellington College, Berkshire, Eng.died Feb. 29, 1940, London), writer of fiction, reminiscences, and biographies, of which the best remembered are his arch, satirical novels and his urbane autobiographical studies of Edwardian and Georgian society. Daniil Kharms (30 December 1905 2 February 1942) was an early Soviet-era avant-gardist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist.

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