Literary Treasures: Great Short Stories by Acclaimed Writers

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