Nathaniel Hawthorne & Virginia Woolf 
Big Book of Best Short Stories – Volume 2 

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. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections.
This book contains:

– Nathaniel Hawthorne:Endicott and the Red Cross
Young Goodman Brown
Ethan Brand
My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Earth’s Holocaust
The Gray Champion
The Minister’s Black Veil

– Virginia Woolf:A Haunted House
Kew Gardens
An Unwritten Novel
Solid Objects
The Mark on the Wall
Mrs. Dalloway in the Bond Street
The Lady in the Looking Glass

– Henry James:The Beast ih the Jungle
The Figure in the Carpet
Paste
The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
The Story of a Year
The Altar of the Dead
Married Son

– Mark Twain:About Barbers
A Dog’s Tale
A Ghost Story
A Monument to Adam
Eve’s Diary
Extracts from Adam’s Diary
The Stolen White Elephant

– Guy de Maupassant:The Necklace
Mademoiselle Fifi
Miss Harriet
My Uncle Jules
Boule de Suif
The Wreck
The Hand

– Charlotte Perkins:When I Was a Witch
The Yellow Wallpaper
If I were a man
The Giant Wistaria
The Boys And The Butter!
The Cottagette
A Middle Sized Artist

– Elizabeth Gaskell:The Old Nurse Story
The Poor Clare
Lois The Witch
The Grey Woman
Curious If True
Six Weeks At Heppenheim
Disappearances

– Herman Melville:Bartleby, the Scrivener
Benito Cereno
The Encantadas
The Chase
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!
I and My Chimney
The Lightning-Rod Man

– Katherine Mansfield:The Garden Party
The Daughters of the Late Colonel
Bliss
Prelude
At the bay
Je ne parle pas francais
How Pearl Button was Kidnapped

– Jack London:The Law of Life
To Build a Fire
That Spot
All Gold Canyon
An Odyssey of the North
A Piece of Steak
Lost Face

Om författaren

Nathaniel Hawthorne: American novelist and short-story writer who was a master of the allegorical and symbolic tale. One of the greatest fiction writers in American literature, he is best known for The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851).
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Virginia Woolf: Born into a privileged English household in 1882, author Virginia Woolf was raised by free-thinking parents. She began writing as a young girl and published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. She wrote modernist classics including Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and Orlando, as well as pioneering feminist works, A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas. In her personal life, she suffered bouts of deep depression. She committed suicide in 1941, at the age of 59.
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Henry James: Born on April 15, 1843, in New York City, Henry James became one of his generation’s most well-known writers and remains so to this day for such works as The Portrait of a Lady and The Turn of the Screw. Having lived in England for 40 years, James became a British subject in 1915, the year before his death. He died on February 28, 1916, in London, England.d in 1916.
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Mark Twain: Born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, Samuel L. Clemens wrote under the pen name Mark Twain and went on to author several novels, including two major classics of American literature: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He was also a riverboat pilot, journalist, lecturer, entrepreneur and inventor. Twain died on April 21, 1910, in Redding, Connecticut.
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Guy de Maupassant: French writer Guy de Maupassant is famous for his short stories, which paint a fascinating picture of French life in the 19th century. He was prolific, publishing over 300 short stories and six novels, but died at a young age after ongoing struggles with both physical and mental health.
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Charlotte Perkins: A prominent American sociologist, novelist, short story writer, poet, and lecturer for social reform, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 August 17, 1935) was a ’utopian feminist.’ Her vast achievements, recorded during a period of American history where such feats were quite difficult for women, cast here as a role model for women everywhere. And her unorthodox concepts and lifestyles cast her as a role model for future generations of feminists.
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Elizabeth Gaskell: was a Victorian era British novelist and short story writer, well regarded for her ghost stories in the genre of Gothic Literature.
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Herman Melville: Born in New York City in 1819. He worked as a crew member on several vessels beginning in 1839, his experiences spawning his successful early novels. Subsequent books, including his masterpiece Moby-Dick, sold poorly, and by the 1860s Melville had turned to poetry. Following his death in New York City in 1891, he posthumously came to be regarded as one of the great American writers.
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Katherine Mansfield: Born on October 14, 1888, in Wellington, New Zealand. After moving to England at age 19, Mansfield secured her reputation as a writer with the story collection Bliss (1920). She reached the height of her powers with her 1922 collection The Garden Party. Her last five years were shadowed by tuberculosis; she died from the disease on January 9, 1923, at the age of 34.
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Jack London: Jack London was born John Griffith Chaney on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, California. After working in the Klondike, London returned home and began publishing stories. His novels, including The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Martin Eden, placed London among the most popular American authors of his time. London, who was also a journalist and an outspoken socialist, died in 1916.