Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 12

Henry Handel Richardson, Pierre Louys, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Andy Adams, Hugh Walpole, B.M. Bower, Gertrude Stein, Richard Middleton, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Mór Jókai, August Nemo

Summary

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:

- 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 DiversionAn 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 DykesBurglar.
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.

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