Introduction

This book contains 70 short stories from 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.

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Contents

This book contains:

Mór Jókai: Thirteen at Table. The Celestial Slingers. The Bad Old Times. The Hostile Skulls. Love And The Little Dog. The Justice Of Soliman A Turkish Story. The Compulsory Diversion. An Old Baron''s Yarn.

Andy Adams: Drifting North. Siegerman''s Per Cent. "Bad Medicine". A Winter Round-Up. A College Vagabond. The Double Trail. Rangering.

B. M. Bower: The Lonesome Trail. First Aid To Cupid. When The Cook Fell Ill. The Lamb. The Spirit of the Range. The Reveler. The Unheavenly Twins.

Richard Middleton: The Ghost Ship. A Drama of Youth. The New Boy. On the Brighton Road. A Tragedy in Little. Sheperd''s Boy. The Passing of Edward.

Pierre Louÿs: Woman and Puppy. The New Pleasure. Byblis. Leda. Immortal Love. The Artist Triumphant. The Hill Of Horsel.

Hugh Walpole: The Whistle. The Silver Mask. The Staircase. A carnation for an old man. Tarnhelm. Mr. Oddy. Seashore Macabre.

Henry Handel Richardson: The End of a Childhood. The Bathe. Succedaneum. Mary Christina. "And Women Must Weep". Sister Ann. The Coat.

Gertrude Stein: Ada. Miss furr and Miss Skeen. France. Americans. Italians. A Sweet Tail. In the Grass.

E. Phillips Oppenheim: The Noxious Gift. Traske and the Bracelet. The Atruscan Silver mine. The Defeat of Rundermere. The End of John Dykes. Burglar. A Woman Intervenes. The Regeneration of Jacobs.

Arthur Wuiller-Couch: I Saw Three Ships. The Haunted Dragoon. A Blue Pantomime. The Two Householders. The Disenchantment of ''Lizabeth. The Laird''s Luck. Captain Dick and Captain Jacka.