Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 10

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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:
 Sheridan Le Fanu:
 
 Carmilla
 Green Tea
 Mr. Justice Harbottle
 The Familiar
 The Room in the Dragon Volant
 Jim Sulivan's Adventures in the Great Snow
 HauntedH. Heron and E. Heron:
 
 The Story of Saddler's Croft
 The Story of Baelbrow
 The Story of Yand Manor House
 The Story of Konnor Old House
 The Story of the Spaniards, Hammersmith
 The Story of Sevens Hall
 The Tale of the Moor RoadCharlotte Riddell:
 
 A Strange Christmas Story
 WalnutTree House
 The Open Door
 Nut Bush Farm
 The Old House in Vauxhall Walk
 Sandy the Tinker
 Old Mrs. JonesFlora Annie Steel:
 
 Sir Buzz
 The Rat's Wedding
 The Faitful Prince
 The Bear's Bad Bargain
 Prince Lionheart and HisThree Friends
 Princess Aubergine
 Valiant Vicky, The Brave WeaverAmelia B. Edwards:
 
 A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest
 The Story of Salome
 In the Confessional
 Was it an illusion?
 How the Third Floor Knew the Potteries
 The Tragedy in the Palazzo BardelloMargaret Oliphant:
 
 A window's tale.
 Queen Eleanor and fair Rosamond
 Mademoiselle
 The Lily and the thorn
 The strange adventures of John Percival
 A story of a weddingtour
 JohnMaria Edgeworth:
 
 The Grateful Negro
 The Prussian Vase
 The Good Aunt
 The Good French Governess
 The Orphans
 The False Key
 TarltonS. BaringGould:
 
 Jean Bouchon
 Pomps and Vanities
 McAlister
 The Leaden Ring
 The Mother of Pansies
 The Redhaired Girl
 A Professional Secret
 Edward Bellamy:
 
 The Blindman's World
 An Echo Of Antietam
 The Old Folks' Party
 The Cold Snap
 Two Days' Solitary Imprisonment
 Potts's Painless Cure
 A Summer Evening's DreamArnold Bennett:
 
 The Lion's Share
 The Burglary
 News of the Engagement
 Beginning the New Year
 From One Generation to Another
 The Death of Simon Fuge
 In a New Bottle

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Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction. He was a leading ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". *** Major Hesketh Vernon Prichard,(17 November 1876 14 June 1922) was an explorer, adventurer, big-game hunter and marksman who made a significant contribution to sniping practice within the British Army during the First World War.Flaxman Lowis a fictional character created by British authors Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard and his mother Kate O'Brien Ryall Prichard, published under the pseudonyms "H. Heron" and "E. Heron". *** Charlotte Riddell,known also as Mrs J. H. Riddell (30 September 1832 24 September 1906), was a popular and influential Irish-born writer in the Victorian period. She was the author of 56 books, novels and short stories, and also became part-owner and editor of St. James's Magazine, a prominent London literary journal in the 1860s. *** Flora Annie Steel (2 April 1847 12 April 1929) was an English writer, who lived in British India for 22 years. She was noted especially for books set or otherwise connected with the sub-continent. *** Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards(7 June 1831 15 April 1892), also known asAmelia B. Edwards,was an English novelist, journalist, traveller andEgyptologist. *** Margaret Oliphant, (born April 4, 1828, Wallyford, Midlothian, Scot.died June 25, 1897, Windsor, near London), prolific Scottish novelist, historical writer, and biographer best known for her portraits of small-town life. *** Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 22 May 1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. *** Edward Bellamy, (born March 26, 1850, Chicopee Falls, Mass., U.S.died May 22, 1898, Chicopee Falls), American writer known chiefly for his utopian novel Looking Backward, 20001887. *** Arnold Bennett(27 May 1867 27 March 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as the theatre, journalism, propaganda and films. *** S. BaringGould(28 January 1834 2 January 1924) of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1240 publications, though this list continues to grow.

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