Big Book of Best Short Stories
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Big Book of Best Short Stories: Volume 14
By R. Austin Freeman, William Pett Ridge, Gilbert ParkerThis book contains 70 short stories from 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.
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Big Book of Best Short Stories: Volume 11
By E. F. Benson, John Kendrick Bangs, John Buchan2 “All problems may be reduced to an arithmetical basis by a simple mental process,” declared Professor Augustus ... Our great chess masters are really our greatest logicians and mathematicians, yet their efforts are directed in a way ...
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Big Book of Best Short Stories: Specials - Horror
By Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, H. P. LovecraftSpecials - Horror W. W. Jacobs, Edgar Allan Poe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Louis Stevenson August Nemo ... He said, “It is new, indeed, for I made it last night in a dream of strange cities; and dreams are older than ...
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Big Book of Best Short Stories: Specials - Horror Volume III
By Bram Stoker, E. F. Benson, Amelia B. EdwardsThis book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.
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Big Book of Best Short Stories: Specials - Russia II
By August NemoThe first great Russian novelist was Nikolai Gogol. Then came Ivan Turgenev, who mastered both short stories and novels. Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky soon became internationally renowned. In the second half of the century Anton ...
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Big Book of Best Short Stories: Specials - Children's Literature II
By Hans Christian Andersen, Wilhelm Hauff, Selma LagerlöfIt was to her like struggling through a large wood. Oh! how she shivered with the cold. She came at last to the door of a field-mouse, who had a little den under the corn-stubble. There dwelt the field-mouse in warmth and comfort, ...
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Big Book of Best Short Stories: Specials - Fantasy
By Edgar Rice Burroughs, Oscar Wilde, John Kendrick Bangshearthrug — the only fit and proper place for books of quality, such as this. They were excellent hearthrugs in that house; ... When I got the book open there was a difficulty at first in making the great stiff pages lie down.
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Big Book of Best Short Stories: Specials - Russia
By Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, Ivan TurgenevThis book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.