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Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 5
Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 5
Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 5
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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:

- F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Diamond as Big as the Ritz
The Jelly-Bean
May Day
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Head and Shoulders
The Cut-Glass Bowl


- Edith Wharton:The Triumph of Night
The Pelican
The Fullness Of Life
April Showers
A Journey
Afterward
Xingu

- Stephen Crane:A Dark Brown Dog
An Experiment in Misery
The Veteran
Four Men in a Cave
A Tent in Agony
The Snake
Upturned Face

- Susan Glaspell:His Smile
"Government Goat"
A Jury of Her Peers
The Anarchist: His Dog
"One of Those Impossible Americans"
At Twilight
From A to Z

- Kate Chopin:A Respectable Woman
A Pair of Silk Stockings
A Matter of Prejudice
A December Day in Dixie
At the 'Cadian Ball
The Storm
Désirée's Baby

- Laura E. Richards :Maine to the Rescue
The Coming of the King
The Golden Windows
The Shed Chamber
The Green Satin Gown
The Scarlet Leaves
Don Alonzo

- Alice Dunbar Nelson:A Carnival Jangle
Little Miss Sophie
La Juanita
The Praline Woman
Sister Josepha
Mr. Baptiste
M'sieu Fortier's Violin

- Louisa May Alcott:A Modern Cinderella
My Red Cap
A Christmas Dream, and How it Came to Be True
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving
Aunt Kipp
Rosy's Journey
The Brothers

- Hans Christian Andersen:The Little Mermaid
Brave Tin Soldier
The Princess and the Pea
The Goloshes of Fortune
The Emperor's New Clothes
The Last Dream of Old Oak
Little Tiny or Thumbelina

- Charles Dickens:A Child's Dream of a Star
Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn
Nobody's Story
The Child's Story
The Magic Fishbone
What Christmas is As We Grow Older
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
LanguageEnglish
PublisherTacet Books
Release dateApr 9, 2020
ISBN9783968587677
Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 5
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F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) is regarded as one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century. His short stories and novels are set in the American ‘Jazz Age’ of the Roaring Twenties and include This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, The Great Gatsby, The Last Tycoon, and Tales of the Jazz Age.

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