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:- Émile Zola:- Captain BurleThe Miller's DaughterJean Gourdon's Four DaysThe Fete At CoquevilleThe FloodDeath of Olivier BecailleNana- Stewart Edward White:The Girl Who Got RattledBilly's TenderfootThe River-BossThe Saving GraceThe Strange Ride of Morrowbie JukesThe Girl in RedThe Fifth Way- Sarah Orne Jewett:A Winter CourtshipGoing to ShrewsburyThe White Rose RoadThe Town PoorA Native of WinbyLooking Back on GirlhoodThe Passing of Sister Barsett- Willa CatherA Burglar's ChristmasA Wagner MatineeOn the Gull's RoadPaul's CaseThe Enchanted BluffThe NamesakeThe Garden Lodge- George AdeThe Fable of the Preacher Who Flew His Kite, But Not Because He Wished to Do SoThe Fable of the Two Mandolin Players and His Willing PerformerThe Fable of the Parents Who Tinkered with the OffspringThe Fable of the Man Who Didn't Care for StorybooksThe Fable of the Kid Who Shifted His IdealThe Fable of How Uncle Brewster was Too Shifty for the TempterThe Fable of Lutie, the False Alarm, and How She Finished about the Time that She Started- Robert W. Chambers:The MessengerThe Repairer of ReputationsThe Purple EmperorPasseurThe Key to GriefA Matter of InterestPompe Funèbre- George GissingThe House Of CobwebsA CapitalistChristophersonHumplebeeThe Scrupulous FatherA Poor GentlemanMiss Rodney's Leisure- Lord Dunsany:Chu-Bu and SheemishThe Hoard of the GibbelinsThe Quest of the Queen's TearsHow One Came, As Was Foretold, To The City Of NeverThe Wonderful WindowThe Bride Of The Man HorseThe House Of The Sphinx- Ruth McEnery Stuart:Sonny's Christenin'Solomon Crow's Christmas PocketsThe Two TimsOld EasterSaint Idyl's LightLittle Mother QuackalinaBlink- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson:The Railroad and the ChurchyardThe FatherThe Bridal MarchOne DayMother's HandsThrondAbsalom's Hair

Émile Zola was born April 2, 1840 in Paris, France. In 1865 he published his controversial first novel, La Confession de Claude. As the founder of the naturalist movement, Zola also published several treatises to explain his theories on art. He died on September 28, 1902.***Stewart Edward White (12 March 1873 September 18, 1946) was an American writer, novelist, and spiritualist. He was a brother of noted mural painter Gilbert White.***Sarah Orne Jewett, (born Sept. 3, 1849, South Berwick, Maine, U.S.died June 24, 1909, South Berwick), American writer of regional fiction that centred on life in Maine.***Willa Catherpublished her first book of verses, April Twilights, in 1903. With O Pioneers! (1913) and My Ántonia (1918), which has frequently been seen as her finest achievement, she found her characteristic themesthe spirit and courage of the frontier she had known in her youth. One of Ours (1922), which won the Pulitzer Prize, and A Lost Lady (1923) mourned the passing of the pioneer spirit***George Ade, (born Feb. 9, 1866, Kentland, Ind., U.S.died May 16, 1944, Brook, Ind.), American playwright and humorist whoseFables in Slangsummarized the kind of wisdom accumulated by the country boy in the city.***Robert William Chambers(May 26, 1865 December 16, 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories titled The King in Yellow, published in 1895.***George Robert Gissing(22 November 1857 28 December 1903) was an English novelist who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903.***Lord Dunsany, 18th Baron of Dunsany,was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name Lord Dunsany.***Ruth McEnery Stuart(18491917) was an American author.Stuart was active in her literary career from 1888 until 1917, producing some 75 works.***Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson(8 December 1832 26 April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit",