Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 14

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:

Anthony Hope:



- The Adventure of Lady Ursula.

- AspirationsExplanations.

- A Cut and a Kiss.

- Promising.

- Imagination.

- Uncle John and the Rubies.

- Lucifera.William Pett Ridge:



- Ah Lun's Gift.

- The Alteration in Mr. Kershaw.

- A Brief Comic Opera.

- A Cautious Youth.

- A Conflict of Interests.

- A Determined Young Person.

- Easy Come.Sir Gilbert Parker:



- The Little Bell of Honour.

- The Baron of Beaugard.

- The Singing of the Bees.

- The Marriage of the Miller.

- Mathurin.

- Uncle Jim.

- Parpon the Dwarf.Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford:



- The Mad Lady.

- A Homely Sacrifice.

- Her Eyes Are Doves.

- An Angel in the House.

- Yesterday.

- The Conquering Will.

- The Deacon's Whistle.Elizabeth Garver Jordan:



- Bart Harrington, Genius.

- The Community's Sunbeam.

- Mrs. Mccafferty Explains.

- Motion Study at St. Katharine's.

- Philip's "Furnis Man".

- The Surrender of Professor Seymour.

- Young Love.

R. Austin Freeman:



- The Case of Oscar Brodski.

- A Case of Premeditation.

- The Echo of a Mutiny.

- The Anthropologist at Large.

- The Aluminum Dagger.

- By the Black Deep.

- A Message From The Deep Sea.Alice Duer Miller:



- The Candid Friend.

- A Clash of Sentimentalists.

- Emulation.

- Home Influence.

- Middle Age.

- The Relapse.

- The Respecters of Law.Leonard Merrick:



- Aribaud's Two Wives.

- The Attack in the Rue de la Presse.

- The Doll in the Pink Silk Dress.

- The Elegant de Fronsac.

- Fluffums.

- A Millionaire's Romance.

- The Propriety of Pauline.Ethel Watts Mumford:



- The Arabian Days of Jimmy Jennette.

- The Bells of Cullam .

- The Cordon Bleu of the Sierra.

- The Eyes of the Heart.

- The Fear Motif.

- Her Groove.

- How Beelzebub Came to the Convent.Anne O'Hagan Shinn:



- Bread Eaten in Secret.

- The Courtship of the Boss.

- Emeline Hardacre's Revenge.

- Fate and the Pocketbook.

- Margaret McDonough's Restaurant.

- The Romance at Hollywood College

- Phbe in Politics