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. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections.

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 Circumstance

- 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 Mystery

- Zona Gale: Friday, Success and Artie Cherry, The Dance, The Way the 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 Hard-boiled 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, Gabriel-Ernest, Tobermory, The Unrest-Cure

- Laura: The Rocking-Horse Winner, Tickets, Please!, The Odour of Chrysanthemums, The Horse Dealer's Daughter, Second Best, The Shades of Spring, The Fox