Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 9

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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:
 
 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
 ManSize 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
 "SolemnLooking Blokes"

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

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