Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 8

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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:
 
 
 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 RiverBoss
 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:ChuBu 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

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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. *** 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. *** 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. *** 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 *** 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. *** 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. *** George Robert Gissing(22 November 1857 28 December 1903) was an English novelist who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. *** 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. *** Ruth McEnery Stuart(18491917) was an American author.Stuart was active in her literary career from 1888 until 1917, producing some 75 works. *** 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",

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