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Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to the british author Aldous Huxley.Aldous Huxley was an English writer and philosopher, widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.Works selected for this book:- Uncle Spencer;- Little Mexican;- Hubert And Minnie;- Fard;- The Portrait;- Young Archimedes;- The Gioconda Smile.

Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to Alexander Pushkin. Alexander Pushkin was a Russian poet and writer who is considered the father of the modern Russian novel. The so-called Golden Age of Russian Literature was inspired by the themes and aesthetics of Pushkin - we are talking about names like Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Gogol. This book contains: - The Queen of Spades. - The Shot. - The Snowstorm. - The Postmaster. - The Coffin-maker. - Kirdjali. - Peter, The Greats Negro. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to the English author Algernon Blackwood. Algernon Blackwood was a master of supernatural fiction, known for his ability to create a sense of unease and tension in his readers. In this collection, readers can expect to be taken on a journey through the haunting landscapes and eerie situations that Blackwoods stories are famous for. Works selected for this book:- The Willows; - Secret Worship; - The Wendigo; - Ancient Sorceries; - The Listener; - The Transfer; - A Descent Into Egypt. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Alice Duer Miller was a writer from the U.S. whose poetry actively influenced political opinion. Her feminist verses made an impact on the suffrage issue, and her verse novel The White Cliffs encouraged U.S. entry into World War II. She also wrote novels and screenplays.This book contains:- The Candid Friend.- A Clash of Sentimentalists.- Emulation.- Home Influence.- Middle Age.- The Relapse.- The Respecters of Law.

Among the first generation born free in the South after the Civil War, Alice Dunbar Nelson was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance. As her posthumous editor Alice T. Hull puts it, Dunbar-Nelson and her contemporaries were "always mindful of their need to be living refutations of the sexual slurs to which black women were subjected and, at the same time, as much as white women, were also tyrannized by the still-prevalent Victorian cult of true womanhood."August Nemo selected for this book seven short stories from this important author who stood out in her time and left a mark of talent and empowerment for future generations:A Carnival JangleLittle Miss SophieLa JuanitaThe Praline WomanSister JosephaMr. BaptisteMsieu Fortiers Violin

Ambrose Bierce was born on June 24, 1842 in Meigs county, Ohio. He worked as a printers apprentice and enlisted to fight in the Civil War. After the war he worked as an editor, journalist, and short story writer; capturing his war experiences in vivid detail. Although his caustic and satirical style granted him notoriety as a journalist, nowadays he is remembered for his incursions into the genre of terror, influencing authors of the stature of H.P. Lovecraft, and is considered one of the most significant of the nineteenth century, together with others such as Edgar Allan Poe and Guy de Maupassant. Profoundly misanthropic, expressed in his writings his distrust of the human race, distrust expressed with a critical attitude that earned him the nickname of Bitter Bierce .This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:An Occurrence at Owl Creek BridgeOne Summer NightThe Death Of Halpin FrayserThe Moonlit RoadA Psychological ShipwreckThe StrangerThe Middle Toe of the Right Foot

Amelia B. Edwards was a versatile woman, who had been a journalist, writer and Egyptologist. Her tales of horror and ghost became very famous at the time of release. In this book, the critic August Nemo selected seven stories that show all the versatility of this author:- An Engineers Story- A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest- The Story of Salome- In the Confessional- Was it an illusion?- How the Third Floor Knew the Potteries- The Tragedy in the Palazzo Bardello

Andy Adams lived the cowboy life on the Texas plains. He later rendered those experiences in fiction to set Americans straight about life in the West.For this book, the critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this author:- Drifting North.- Siegermans Per Cent.- "Bad Medicine".- A Winter Round-Up.- A College Vagabond.- The Double Trail.- Rangering.

Anne OHagan Shinn was an American feminist, suffragist, journalist, and writer of short stories, regularly contributing to publications such as Vanity Fair, and Harpers. In particular, she is known for her writings detailing the exploitation of young women working as shop clerks in early 20th Century America.This book contains:- Bread Eaten in Secret.- The Courtship of the Boss.- Emeline Hardacres Revenge.- Fate and the Pocketbook.- Margaret McDonoughs Restaurant.- The Romance at Hollywood College- Phbe in Politics

Anthony Hope was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels. His works are set in the contemporaneous fictional country of Ruritania and spawned the genre known as Ruritanian romance, works set in fictional European locales similar to the novels.This book contains:- The Adventure of Lady Ursula.- AspirationsExplanations.- A Cut and a Kiss.- Promising.- Imagination.- Uncle John and the Rubies.- Lucifera.

Anthony Trollope wrote convincing novels of political life as well as studies that show great psychological penetration. One of his greatest strengths was a steady, consistent vision of the social structures of Victorian England, which he re-created in his books with unusual solidity. This selection of short stories brings you the best of Trollope selected by August Nemo: The Man Who Kept His Money in a BoxThe Mistletoe BoughThe Parsons Daughter of Oxney ColneReturning Home An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids The Courtship of Susan BellThe Relics of General Chasse

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a master of the modern short story. He was a literary artist of laconic precision who probed below the surface of life, laying bare the secret motives of his characters. Chekhovs best plays and short stories lack complex plots and neat solutions. Concentrating on apparent trivialities, they create a special kind of atmosphere, sometimes termed haunting or lyrical. Chekhov described the Russian life of his time using a deceptively simple technique devoid of obtrusive literary devices, and he is regarded as the outstanding representative of the late 19th-century Russian realist school. The critical August Nemo selected seven of the best and most representative stories by this author for your enjoyment:The Lady With The Little DogWard No. 6A JokeThe DarlingKashtankaThe Black MonkIn The Ravinein the ravien

Arnold Bennett was a British novelist, playwright, critic, and essayist whose major works form an important link between the English novel and the mainstream of European realism.In this book the critic August Nemo brings seven specially selected short stories:- The Lions Share- The Burglary- News of the Engagement- Beginning the New Year- From One Generation to Another- The Death of Simon Fuge- In a New Bottle

Originally a physician, in 1887 Arthur Conan Doyle published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.This is a collection of the 7 best short stories of one of the most iconic writer ever to have been published, Arthur Conan Doyle. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:- A Scandal In Bohemia- The Five Orange Pips- The Disintegration Machine- When the World Screamed- The Great Keinplatz Experiment- The Horror of the Heights- The Ring of Thoth

He was born in 1863 in Wales, in Caerlson-Usk. He settled in London, still young, where he was a bookstore clerk for a few months, becoming a preceptor. Subsequently, he began to write in total material shortage and fatigue. For a long time he lived on translations. Still unrecognized, he continued his work with a growing feeling that "an immense spiritual gulf separated him from other men" and that he lived as a "Robinson Crusoe of the soul."A curious fact was that he, along with W. B. Yeats and Aleister Crowley, was a member of the "Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn," the ill-fated 20th century magic society.His work is acclaimed worldwide and has already been recognized by such big names as H. P. Locecraf, Stephen King and Jorge Luis Borges. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:The Great God PanThe White PeopleThe Black SealThe Novel of the White PowderThe Red HandThe Inmost LightThe Bowmen

Arthur Morrison was noted for realist novels and short stories describing slum life in Londons East End at the end of the Victorian era.This selection chosen by the critic August Nemocontains the following stories:- That Brute Simmos- A Poor Stick- Behind the Shade- To Bow Bridges- A Conversation- All That Messuage- Three Hounds

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for his literary criticism and short stories. With his vast number of short stories, Q shows his dynamic range of style and creativity with tales of the supernatural, Viking tales, satires, historical fiction, romantic adventures, tales of heroic swashbuckling, mystery and crime fiction, and sea-going adventures.The critic August Nemo has selected seven short stories by this author for your appreciation:- I Saw Three Ships.- The Haunted Dragoon.- A Blue Pantomime.- The Two Householders.- The Disenchantment of Lizabeth.- The Lairds Luck.- Captain Dick and Captain Jacka.

B. M. Bower, was an American author who wrote novels, fictional short stories, and screenplays about the American Old West. Her works, featuring cowboys and cows of the Flying U Ranch in Montana, reflected "an interest in ranch life, the use of working cowboys as main characters, the occasional appearance of eastern types for the sake of contrast, a sense of western geography as simultaneously harsh and grand, and a good deal of factual attention to such matters as cattle branding and bronc busting."For this book, the critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this author:- The Lonesome Trail.- First Aid To Cupid.- When The Cook Fell Ill.- The Lamb.- The Spirit of the Range.- The Reveler.- The Unheavenly Twins

Banjo Paterson lived in the city for most of his life, yet he became wildly famous in the colonies for the poems and stories he wrote about life in the Australian outback. The stories he created about the lives and struggles of bushmen, shearers and drovers in rural farm country struck a chord with Australians.In these seven specially selected short stories you will be able to know and appreciate the universe of this important Australian author.The CatThe DogHis MasterpieceThe Merino SheepConcerning a Steeplechase RiderThree Elephant PowerThe Amateur Gardener

Barry Pain, english journalist, poet and writer. He was known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories, but he also wrote many horror stories, which were well received by the lay men and critics alike. Best remembered for his Eliza group of comedic short stories.The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this remarkable author for your enjoyment:- Aunt Martha.- The Bet.- The Boy in the Book.- The Discovery of Nesting.- Eliza and the Special.- The Kindness of the Celestial.- The Victim of Apparatus.