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.

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This book contains:

- Mór Jókai:Thirteen at Table.

The Celestial Slingers.

The Bad Old Times.

The Hostile Skulls.

Love And The Little Dog.

The Justice Of Soliman A Turkish Story.

The Compulsory DiversionAn Old Baron's Yarn.

- Andy Adams:Drifting North.

Siegerman's Per Cent.

"Bad Medicine".

A Winter Round-Up.

A College Vagabond.

The Double Trail.

Rangering.

- B. M. Bower:The Lonesome Trail.

First Aid To Cupid.

When The Cook Fell Ill.

The Lamb.

The Spirit of the Range.

The Reveler.

The Unheavenly Twins

- Richard Middleton:The Ghost Ship.

A Drama of Youth.

The New Boy.

On the Brighton Road.

A Tragedy in Little.

Sheperd's Boy.

The Passing of Edward.

- Pierre Louÿs:Woman and Puppy.

The New Pleasure.

Byblis.

Leda.

Immortal Love.

The Artist Triumphant.

The Hill Of Horsel.

- Hugh Walpole:The Whistle.

The Silver Mask

The Staircase.

A carnation for an old man.

Tarnhelm

Mr. Oddy.

Seashore Macabre.

- Henry Handel Richardson:The End of a Childhood.

The Bathe.

Succedaneum.

Mary Christina.

"And Women Must Weep".

Sister Ann.

The Coat.

- Gertrude Stein:Ada.

Miss furr and Miss Skeen.

France.

Americans.

Italians.

A Sweet Tail.

In the Grass.

- E. Phillips Oppenheim:The Noxious Gift.

Traske and the Bracelet.

The Atruscan Silver mine.

The Defeat of Rundermere.

The End of John DykesBurglar.

A Woman Intervenes.

The Regeneration of Jacobs.

- Arthur Wuiller-Couch:I Saw Three Ships.

The Haunted Dragoon.

A Blue Pantomime.

The Two Householders.

The Disenchantment of 'Lizabeth.

The Laird's Luck.

Captain Dick and Captain Jacka.