Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 6

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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:
 
 
 Kathleen Norris:Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby
 What Happened to Alanna
 Austin's Girl
 S is for Shiftless Susanna
 Making Allowances for Mamma
 Dr. Bates and Miss Sally
 Rising Water
 
 Charles W. Chesnutt:The Wife of His Youth
 The Passing of Grandison
 Her Virginia Mammy
 The Bouquet
 The Sheriffs' Children
 The Web of Circunstance
 
 Don Marquis:The Old Soak
 The Revolt of the Oyster
 The Professor's Awakening
 The Saddest Man
 Behind the Curtain
 Kale
 Too American
 
 Emma Orczy:The Red Carnation
 The Traitor
 Number 187
 The Trappist's Vow
 Juliette, a Tale of Terror
 The Revenge of Ur-Tasen
 The Glasgow Mistery
 
 Zona Gale:Friday
 Sucess and Artie Cherry
 The Dance
 The Way thw World Is
 White Bread
 Human
 Exit Charity
 
 Anthony Trollope:The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box
 The Mistletoe Bough
 The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne
 Returning Home
 An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids
 The Courtship of Susan Bell
 The Relics of General Chasse
 
 Ellis Parker Butler:Pigs is Pigs
 The Hardboiled Egg
 Philo Gubb's Greatest Case
 Solander's Radio Tomb
 The Thin Santa Claus
 Dey Ain't No Ghosts
 The Man Who Did Not Go to Heaven on Tuesday
 
 Mary Shelley:The Invisible Girl
 The Brother and Sister
 The Dream
 Transformation
 The Mortal Immortal
 The Mourner
 The Swiss Peasant
 
 Hector Hugh Munro:The Lumber Room
 The Open Window
 Sredni Vashtar
 GabrielErnest
 Tobermory
 The UnrestCure
 Laura
 
 D.H. Lawrence:The RockingHorse Winner
 Tickets, Please!
 The Odour of Chrysanthemums
 The Horse Dealer's Daughter
 Second Best
 The Shades of Spring
 The Fox

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Kathleen Thompson Norris (July 16, 1880 January 18, 1966) was an American novelist and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States for nearly fifty years, from 1911 to 1959. *** Charles W. Chesnutt, in full Charles Waddell Chesnutt, (born June 20, 1858, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.died Nov. 15, 1932, Cleveland), first important black American novelist. *** Don Marquis, byname of Donald Robert Perry Marquis, (born July 29, 1878, Walnut, Ill., U.S.died Dec. 29, 1937, New York City), U.S. newspaperman, poet, and playwright, creator of the literary characters Archy, the cockroach, and Mehitabel, the cat, wry, down-and-out philosophers of the 1920s. *** Baroness Emmuska Orczy, (born September 23, 1865, Tarnaörs, Hungarydied November 12, 1947, London, England), Hungarian-born British novelist chiefly remembered as author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, one of the greatest popular successes of the 20th century. *** Zona Gale, (born Aug. 26, 1874, Portage, Wis., U.S.died Dec. 27, 1938, Chicago, Ill.), American novelist and playwright whose Miss Lulu Bett (1920) established her as a realistic chronicler of Midwestern village life. *** Anthony Trollope, (born April 24, 1815, London, Eng.died Dec. 6, 1882, London), English novelist whose popular success concealed until long after his death the nature and extent of his literary merit. *** Ellis Parker Butler, American Author, Humorist and Speaker Born: December 5, 1869; Muscatine, Iowa. Died: September 13, 1937; Williamsville, Massachusetts. Author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays. *** Mary Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, in London, England. She married poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816. Two years later, she published her most famous novel, Frankenstein. *** Born in Burma in 1870, H.H. Munro worked as a journalist before gaining fame as a short story writer under the pen name "Saki." His works, which include the classic stories "Tobermory" and "The Open Window," offer a satirical commentary on Edwardian society and culture. *** Born in England in 1885, D.H. Lawrence is regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He published many novels and poetry volumes during his lifetime, including Sons and Lovers and Women in Love, but is best known for his infamous Lady Chatterley's Lover. He died in France in 1930.

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