Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 2

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

This book contains:



- Nathaniel Hawthorne:Endicott and the Red Cross

Young Goodman Brown

Ethan Brand

My Kinsman, Major Molineux

Earth's Holocaust

The Gray Champion

The Minister's Black Veil



- Virginia Woolf:A Haunted House

Kew Gardens

An Unwritten Novel

Solid Objects

The Mark on the Wall

Mrs. Dalloway in the Bond Street

The Lady in the Looking Glass



- Henry James:The Beast ih the Jungle

The Figure in the Carpet

Paste

The Romance of Certain Old Clothes

The Story of a Year

The Altar of the Dead

Married Son



- Mark Twain:About Barbers

A Dog's Tale

A Ghost Story

A Monument to Adam

Eve's Diary

Extracts from Adam's Diary

The Stolen White Elephant



- Guy de Maupassant:The Necklace

Mademoiselle Fifi

Miss Harriet

My Uncle Jules

Boule de Suif

The Wreck

The Hand



- Charlotte Perkins:When I Was a Witch

The Yellow Wallpaper

If I were a man

The Giant Wistaria

The Boys And The Butter!

The Cottagette

A Middle Sized Artist



- Elizabeth Gaskell:The Old Nurse Story

The Poor Clare

Lois The Witch

The Grey Woman

Curious If True

Six Weeks At Heppenheim

Disappearances



- Herman Melville:Bartleby, the Scrivener

Benito Cereno

The Encantadas

The Chase

Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!

I and My Chimney

The Lightning-Rod Man



- Katherine Mansfield:The Garden Party

The Daughters of the Late Colonel

Bliss

Prelude

At the bay

Je ne parle pas francais

How Pearl Button was Kidnapped



- Jack London:The Law of Life

To Build a Fire

That Spot

All Gold Canyon

An Odyssey of the North

A Piece of Steak

Lost Face