Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 11

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:



- A. E. W. Mason:The Affair At The Semiramis Hotel

The Clock

Green Paint

Ensign Knightley

The Man Of Wheels

The Coward

Keeper Of The Bishop



- Julian Hawthorne:David Poindexter's Disappearance.

Ken's Mystery.

When Half-gods Go, the Gods Arrive.

Set Not Thy Foot on Graves.

My Friend Paton.

The Christmas Guest.

The Laughing Mill



- Kenneth Grahame:The Twenty-First of October

Dies Irae

Mutabile Semper

The Magic Ring

Its Walls Were as of Jasper

A Saga of the Seas

The Reluctant Dragon



- John Kendrick Bangs:The Water Ghost Of Harrowby Hall

The Spectre Cook Of Bangletop

A Midnight Visitor

The Speck On The Lens

A Quicksilver Cassandra

The Ghost Club

A Psychical Prank



- Frank R. Stockton:The Bee-Man Of Orn.

The Griffin And The Minor Canon.

Old Pipes And The Dryad.

The Queen's Museum.

Prince Hassak's March.

The Battle Of The Third Cousins.

The Banished King.



- Jacques Futrelle:The Problem of Cell 13

The Thinking Machine

Five Millions by Wireless

Kidnapped Baby Blake, Millionaire

The Problem of the Motor Boat

The Problem of the Opera Box

The Problem of the Vanishing man



- Ella D'Arcy:Irremediable

White Magic

A Marriage

In Normandy

The Pleasure-Pilgrim

The Web of Maya

An Engagement



- John Buchan:Politics and the Mayfly

The Keeper of Cademuir

The Wife of Flanders

The Watcher by the Threshold

Comedy in the Full Moon

The Herd of Standlan



- E. F. Benson:The Room in the Tower

Caterpillars

Mrs. Amworth

Mr. Tilly's Séance

Negotium Perambulans

How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery

The Horror-Horn



- Daniil Kharms:Symphony no. 2

On phenomena and existences - No. 1

The thing

Andrey Semyonovich

An unexpected drinking bout

The destiny of a professor's wife

The memoirs of a wise old man



A. E. W. Mason (7 May 1865 22 November 1948) was an English author and politician.

Julian Hawthorne was an American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne

Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 6 July 1932) was a Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature.

John Kendrick Bangs was an American author, humorist, editor and satirist. His name is immortalised in the term "Bangsian Fantasy".

Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century.

Jacques Heath Futrelle (April 9, 1875 April 15, 1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer. He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Machine" for his application of logic to any and all situations. Futrelle died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic.

Ella D'Arcy (23 August 1857 5 September 1937) was a short fiction writer in the late 19th and early 20th century.

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, (/26 August 1875 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederat

E.F. Benson , in full Edward Frederic Benson , (born July 24, 1867, Wellington College, Berkshire, Eng.died Feb. 29, 1940, London), writer of fiction, reminiscences, and biographies, of which the best remembered are his arch, satirical novels and his urbane autobiographical studies of Edwardian and Georgian society.

Daniil Kharms (30 December 1905 2 February 1942) was an early Soviet-era avant-gardist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist.