Kathleen Norris & Charles W. Chesnutt 
Big Book of Best Short Stories – Volume 6 

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:


– Kathleen Norris:Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby
What Happened to Alanna
Austin’s Girl
S is for Shiftless Susanna
Making Allowances for Mamma
Dr. Bates and Miss Sally
Rising Water

– Charles W. Chesnutt:The Wife of His Youth
The Passing of Grandison
Her Virginia Mammy
The Bouquet
The Sheriffs’ Children
The Web of Circunstance

– Don Marquis:The Old Soak
The Revolt of the Oyster
The Professor’s Awakening
The Saddest Man
Behind the Curtain
Kale
Too American

– Emma Orczy:The Red Carnation
The Traitor
Number 187
The Trappist’s Vow
Juliette, a Tale of Terror
The Revenge of Ur-Tasen
The Glasgow Mistery

– Zona Gale:Friday
Sucess and Artie Cherry
The Dance
The Way thw World Is
White Bread
Human
Exit Charity

– Anthony Trollope:The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box
The Mistletoe Bough
The Parson’s Daughter of Oxney Colne
Returning Home
An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids
The Courtship of Susan Bell
The Relics of General Chasse

– Ellis Parker Butler:Pigs is Pigs
The Hard-boiled Egg
Philo Gubb’s Greatest Case
Solander’s Radio Tomb
The Thin Santa Claus
Dey Ain’t No Ghosts
The Man Who Did Not Go to Heaven on Tuesday

– Mary Shelley:The Invisible Girl
The Brother and Sister
The Dream
Transformation
The Mortal Immortal
The Mourner
The Swiss Peasant

– Hector Hugh Munro:The Lumber Room
The Open Window
Sredni Vashtar
Gabriel-Ernest
Tobermory
The Unrest-Cure
Laura

– D.H. Lawrence:The Rocking-Horse Winner
Tickets, Please!
The Odour of Chrysanthemums
The Horse Dealer’s Daughter
Second Best
The Shades of Spring
The Fox

About the author

Kathleen Thompson Norris (July 16, 1880 January 18, 1966) was an American novelist and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States for nearly fifty years, from 1911 to 1959.
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Charles W. Chesnutt, in full Charles Waddell Chesnutt, (born June 20, 1858, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.died Nov. 15, 1932, Cleveland), first important black American novelist.
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Don Marquis, byname of Donald Robert Perry Marquis, (born July 29, 1878, Walnut, Ill., U.S.died Dec. 29, 1937, New York City), U.S. newspaperman, poet, and playwright, creator of the literary characters Archy, the cockroach, and Mehitabel, the cat, wry, down-and-out philosophers of the 1920s.
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Baroness Emmuska Orczy, (born September 23, 1865, Tarnaörs, Hungarydied November 12, 1947, London, England), Hungarian-born British novelist chiefly remembered as author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, one of the greatest popular successes of the 20th century.
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Zona Gale, (born Aug. 26, 1874, Portage, Wis., U.S.died Dec. 27, 1938, Chicago, Ill.), American novelist and playwright whose Miss Lulu Bett (1920) established her as a realistic chronicler of Midwestern village life.
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Anthony Trollope, (born April 24, 1815, London, Eng.died Dec. 6, 1882, London), English novelist whose popular success concealed until long after his death the nature and extent of his literary merit.
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Ellis Parker Butler, American Author, Humorist and Speaker Born: December 5, 1869; Muscatine, Iowa. Died: September 13, 1937; Williamsville, Massachusetts. Author of more than 30 books and more than 2, 000 stories and essays.
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Mary Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, in London, England. She married poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816. Two years later, she published her most famous novel, Frankenstein.
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Born in Burma in 1870, H.H. Munro worked as a journalist before gaining fame as a short story writer under the pen name ‘Saki.’ His works, which include the classic stories ‘Tobermory’ and ‘The Open Window, ‘ offer a satirical commentary on Edwardian society and culture.
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Born in England in 1885, D.H. Lawrence is regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He published many novels and poetry volumes during his lifetime, including Sons and Lovers and Women in Love, but is best known for his infamous Lady Chatterley’s Lover. He died in France in 1930.