Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 7

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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:
 
 
 Mary E. Wilkins Freeman:A New England Nun
 Ann Mary; Her Two Thanksgivings
 Luella Miller
 LittleGirlAfraidofaDog
 Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas
 The Gospel According To Joan
 The Revolt of "Mother"
 
 O. HenryThe Gift of the Magi
 The Cop and the Anthem
 A Retrieved Reformation
 The Ransom of Red Chief
 Springtime a la Carte
 The Count and the Wedding Guest
 Witches' Loaves
 
 William Dean HowellsChristmas Every Day
 The PumpkinGlory
 Butterflyflutterby and Flutterbybutterfly
 City and Country in the Fall, A Long-distance Eclogue
 A Case Of Metaphantasmia
 An Experience
 A Pair Of Patient Lovers
 
 T. S. ArthurAn Angel in Disguise
 Amy's Question
 Dressed for a Party
 The Two Husbands
 The Brilliant and the Commonplace
 Other People's Eyes
 The Fatal Error
 
 Stephen LeacockMy Financial Career
 Merry Christmas
 How to Make a Million Dollars
 How to Live to be 200
 How to Avoid Getting Married
 Aristocratic Education
 SelfMade Men
 
 Sherwood AndersonA Man of Ideas
 An Awakening
 An Apology for Crudity
 Hands
 The Egg
 The Man In The Brown Coat
 The Other Woman
 
 Robert BarrAn Alpine Divorce
 "And the Rigour of the Game"
 Gentlemen: The King!
 The Hour and the Man
 The Man Who was not on the Passenger List
 Which Was the Murderer?
 Not According to the Code
 
 Lafcadio HearnYukiOnna
 The Story of Ming-Y
 A Ghost
 A Dead Secret
 Chin Chin Kobokama
 The Cedar Closet
 A Ghost Story
 
 Giovanni VergaRosso Malpello
 Rustic Chivalry
 How Peppa Loved Gramigna
 Jeli, the Shepherd
 La Lupa
 The Story of St. Joseph's Ass
 The Bereaved
 
 Hamlin GarlandUnder the Lion's Paw
 A Branch Road
 A "Good Fellow's Wife"
 A Night Raid at Eagle River
 Uncle Ethan Ripley
 Mrs. Ripley's Trip
 A Day's Pleasure

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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman was an american writer known for his stories and novels of lives frustrated in the towns of New England. She was born on October 31, 1852 in Randolph, Massachusetts, and died on March 13, 1930 in Metuchen, New Jersey. *** O. Henry wrote in a dry, humorous style and, as in "The Gift of the Magi," often ironically used coincidences and surprise endings. Released from prison in 1902, Porter went to New York, his home and the setting of most of his fiction for the remainder of his life. Writing prodigiously, he went on to become a revered American writer. *** William Dean Howells, (born March 1, 1837, Martins Ferry, Ohio, U.S.died May 11, 1920, New York City), U.S. novelist and critic, the dean of late 19th-century American letters, the champion of literary realism, and the close friend and adviser of Mark Twain and Henry James. *** T.S. Arthur (1809-1885), American temperance crusader, editor and author of fiction and non-fiction works such as Ten Nights in a Bar-Room (1854). *** Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock, (30 December 1869 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humorist in the world. He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies.The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour was named in his honour. *** Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he rose to become a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio. In 1912, Anderson had a nervous breakdown that led him to abandon his business and family to become a writer *** Robert Barr (16 September 1849 21 October 1912[1]) was[2] a Scottish-Canadian short story writer and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland. Robert Barr was well-spoken, well-cultured due to travel, and considered a "socializer." *** Lafcadio Hearn, also called (from 1895) Koizumi Yakumo, (born June 27, 1850, Levkás, Ionian Islands, Greecedied Sept. 26, 1904, kubo, Japan), writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West. *** Giovanni Verga, (born Sept. 2, 1840, Catania, Sicilydied Jan. 27, 1922, Catania), novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, most important of the Italian verismo (Realist) school of novelists. *** Hamlin Garland, in full Hannibal Hamlin Garland, (born September 14, 1860, West Salem, Wisconsin, U.S.died March 4, 1940, Hollywood, California), American author perhaps best remembered for his short stories and his autobiographical "Middle Border" series of narratives.

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