An astonishing collection of fifty of the greatest short stories ever written by some of literature's most highly acclaimed writers. 1. Odour of Chrysanthemums by D. H. Lawrence 2. Miss Harriet by Guy de Maupassant 3. Twenty-six Men and a Girl by Maxim Gorky 4. Hot Potatoes by Arnold Bennett 5. Rats by M. R. James 6. Zodomirsky’s Duel by Alexandre Dumas 7. The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin 8. The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe 9. The Encased Man by Anton Chekhov 10. A Candle by Count Leo Tolstoy 11. Malachi’s Cove by Anthony Trollope 12. Nine O’Clock by Wilkie Collins 13. The Drover’s Wife by Henry Lawson 14. The Mines of Falun by E. T. A. Hoffmann 15. The Marquise by George Sand 16. Lost in a Pyramid by Louisa May Alcott 17. The Pistol-Shot by Alexander Pushkin 18. The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy 19. The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce 20. Spindleberries by John Galsworthy 21. The Chaplet by Saki 22. In the Reign of Terror by Anatole France 23. Portrait of a Lady by Jerome K. Jerome 24. The Venturers by O. Henry 25. Mons. Cassecruche’s Inspiration by George Walter Thornbury 26. A Witch in the Peak by R. Murray Gilchrist 27. The Brown Wallet by Stacy Aumonier 28. The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin 29. The Reverend Father Gaucher’s Elixir by Alphonse Daudet 30. The Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 31. The Model Millionnaire by Oscar Wilde 32. The One Million Pound Bank Note by Mark Twain 33. The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs 34. The Man with the Watches by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 35. A Poor Gentleman by George Gissing 36. An Episode of the Reign of Terror by Honoré de Balzac 37. Jeannot and Colin by Voltaire 38. The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling 39. The Doll’s House by Katherine Mansfield 40. The Judgement of Paris by Leonard Merrick 41. The Child with the Bread Shoes by Théophile Gautier 42. A Falling Out by Kenneth Grahame 43. Long Odds by Henry Rider Haggard 44. A Strange Goldfield by Guy Boothby 45. Hughey’s Dog by Banjo Paterson 46. The Dumb Man by Sherwood Anderson 47. Hunted Down by Charles Dickens 48. The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad 49. The Saloon Passenger by E. W. Hornung 50. Jenny by Victor Hugo

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