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Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 3 - cover

Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 3

Eleanor H. Porter, Edward Bellamy, Frank Richard Stockton, John Kendrick Bangs, Margaret Oliphant, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Francis Marion Crawford, Jaques Futrelle, John Buchan, E.F. Benson, Arnold Bennett, Anthony Hope, Kenneth Grahame, Flora Annie Steel, Julian Hawthorne, Pierre Louÿs, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Andy Adams, Sheridan Le Fanu, Charlotte Riddell, Sabine Baring-Gould, Fitz-James O'Brien, B.M. Bower, Leonard Merrick, Gertrude Stein, Gilbert Parker, Barry Pain, Otis Adelbert Kline, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Alice Duer Miller, Richard Middleton, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Richard Austin Freemann, A.E.W. Mason, Daniil Kharms, Mór Jókai, Ella D'Arcy, August Nemo, William Pett Ridge, Ethel Watts Mumford, H. and E. Heron, Ethel Richardson, Bertha Sinclair, Valery Bryusov, John Ulrich Giesy, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Anne O'Hagan Shinn, Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, Frank Lucius Packard, Gertrude Bennett

Publisher: Tacet Books

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This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers:

	Sheridan Le Fanu
	H. and E. Heron
	Charlotte Riddell
	Flora Annie Steel
	Amelia B. Edwards
	Margaret Oliphant
	Edward Bellamy
	Arnold Bennett
	S. Baring-Gould
	Daniil Kharms
	E.F. Benson
	John Buchan
	Ella D'Arcy
	Jacques Futrelle
	Frank Richard Stockton
	John Kendrick Bangs
	Kenneth Grahame
	Julian Hawthorne
	A. E. W. Mason
	Richard Middleton
	Pierre Louÿs
	Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole
	Ethel Richardson
	Gertrude Stein
	E. Phillips Oppenheim
	Arthur Quiller-Couch
	Mór Jókai
	Andy Adams
	Bertha Sinclair
	Fitz James O'Brien
	Eleanor H. Porter
	Valery Bryusov
	John Ulrich Giesy
	Otis Adelbert Kline
	Paul Laurence Dunbar
	Frank Lucius Packard
	Barry Pain
	Gertrude Bennett
	Francis Marion Crawford
	William Pett Ridge
	Gilbert Parker
	Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
	Elizabeth Garver Jordan
	Richard Austin Freeman
	Alice Duer Miller
	Leonard Merrick
	Anthony Hope
	Ethel Watts Mumford
	Anne O'Hagan Shinn
	B. M. Bower
Available since: 02/09/2020.

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