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    Big Book of Best Short Stories: Volume 12
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    Big Book of Best Short Stories: Volume 12

    By Andy Adams, B. M. Bower, Richard Middleton and

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    About this ebook

    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.
    For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections.
    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 Diversion—An 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 Dykes—Burglar.
    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTacet Books
    Release dateSep 24, 2019
    ISBN9788577774838
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