Mary E. Wilkins Freeman & O. Henry 
Big Book of Best Short Stories – Volume 7 

This book contains70 short storiesfrom 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please theliterature lovers.
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This book contains:


– Mary E. Wilkins Freeman:A New England Nun
Ann Mary; Her Two Thanksgivings
Luella Miller
Little-Girl-Afraid-of-a-Dog
Jimmy Scarecrow’s Christmas
The Gospel According To Joan
The Revolt of ‘Mother’

– O. Henry The Gift of the Magi
The Cop and the Anthem
A Retrieved Reformation
The Ransom of Red Chief
Springtime a la Carte
The Count and the Wedding Guest
Witches’ Loaves

– William Dean Howells Christmas Every Day
The Pumpkin-Glory
Butterflyflutterby and Flutterbybutterfly
City and Country in the Fall, A Long-distance Eclogue
A Case Of Metaphantasmia
An Experience
A Pair Of Patient Lovers

– T. S. Arthur An Angel in Disguise
Amy’s Question
Dressed for a Party
The Two Husbands
The Brilliant and the Commonplace
Other People’s Eyes
The Fatal Error

– Stephen Leacock My Financial Career
Merry Christmas
How to Make a Million Dollars
How to Live to be 200
How to Avoid Getting Married
Aristocratic Education
Self-Made Men

– Sherwood Anderson A Man of Ideas
An Awakening
An Apology for Crudity
Hands
The Egg
The Man In The Brown Coat
The Other Woman

– Robert Barr An Alpine Divorce
‘And the Rigour of the Game’
Gentlemen: The King!
The Hour and the Man
The Man Who was not on the Passenger List
Which Was the Murderer?
Not According to the Code

– Lafcadio Hearn Yuki-Onna
The Story of Ming-Y
A Ghost
A Dead Secret
Chin Chin Kobokama
The Cedar Closet
A Ghost Story

– Giovanni Verga Rosso Malpello
Rustic Chivalry
How Peppa Loved Gramigna
Jeli, the Shepherd
La Lupa
The Story of St. Joseph’s Ass
The Bereaved

– Hamlin Garland Under the Lion’s Paw
A Branch Road
A ‘Good Fellow’s Wife’
A Night Raid at Eagle River
Uncle Ethan Ripley
Mrs. Ripley’s Trip
A Day’s Pleasure

About the author

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman was an american writer known for his stories and novels of lives frustrated in the towns of New England. She was born on October 31, 1852 in Randolph, Massachusetts, and died on March 13, 1930 in Metuchen, New Jersey.
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O. Henry wrote in a dry, humorous style and, as in ‘The Gift of the Magi, ‘ often ironically used coincidences and surprise endings. Released from prison in 1902, Porter went to New York, his home and the setting of most of his fiction for the remainder of his life. Writing prodigiously, he went on to become a revered American writer.
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William Dean Howells, (born March 1, 1837, Martins Ferry, Ohio, U.S.died May 11, 1920, New York City), U.S. novelist and critic, the dean of late 19th-century American letters, the champion of literary realism, and the close friend and adviser of Mark Twain and Henry James.
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T.S. Arthur (1809-1885), American temperance crusader, editor and author of fiction and non-fiction works such as Ten Nights in a Bar-Room (1854).
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Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock, (30 December 1869 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humorist in the world. He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people’s follies.The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour was named in his honour.
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Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he rose to become a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio. In 1912, Anderson had a nervous breakdown that led him to abandon his business and family to become a writer
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Robert Barr (16 September 1849 21 October 1912[1]) was[2] a Scottish-Canadian short story writer and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland. Robert Barr was well-spoken, well-cultured due to travel, and considered a ‘socializer.’
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Lafcadio Hearn, also called (from 1895) Koizumi Yakumo, (born June 27, 1850, Levkás, Ionian Islands, Greecedied Sept. 26, 1904, kubo, Japan), writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West.
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Giovanni Verga, (born Sept. 2, 1840, Catania, Sicilydied Jan. 27, 1922, Catania), novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, most important of the Italian verismo (Realist) school of novelists.
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Hamlin Garland, in full Hannibal Hamlin Garland, (born September 14, 1860, West Salem, Wisconsin, U.S.died March 4, 1940, Hollywood, California), American author perhaps best remembered for his short stories and his autobiographical ‘Middle Border’ series of narratives.