This 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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This book contains:

- Nikolai GogolThe Nose

The Viy

The Cloak

Old-Fashioned Farmers

The Overcoat

Memoirs of a Madman

The Mysterious Portrait

- Anton ChekhovThe Lady With The Little Dog

Ward No. 6

A Joke

The Darling

Kashtanka

The Black Monk

In The Ravine

- Joseph ConradThe Idiots

An Outpost of Progress

Amy Foster

Youth

An Anarchist

The Secret Sharer

The Return

- Leonid AndreyevLazarus

On The Day of Crucifixion

The Crushed Flower

The Serpent's Story

JUdas Iscariot

The Little Angel

A Story Wich Will Never Be Finished

- James JoyceThe Sisters

Eveline

Araby

A Painful Case

The Dead

Two Gallants

After the Race

- Fyodor DostoevskyWhite Nights

An Honest Thief

The Christmas Tree and the Wedding

Notes From Underground

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

A Little Hero

Mr. Prohartchin

- Alexander PushkinThe Queen of Spades

The Shot

The Snowstorm

The Postmaster

The Coffin-maker

Kirdjali

Peter, The Great's Negro

- Turgenev'sA Desperate Character

Knock, Knock, Knock

A Strange Story

The Dog

The District Doctor

The Inn

Mumu

- Alexei PeshkovOne Autumn Night

Twenty Six Men and a Girl

The Dead Man

Waiting for the Ferry

The Billionaire

The Birth of a Man

- Leo TolstoyGod Sees the Truth, But Waits

Papa Panov's Special Christmas

Three Questions

Work, Death and Sickness A Legend

How Much Land Does a Man Needs?

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Alyosha the Pot