Émile Zola & Stewart Edward White 
Big Book of Best Short Stories – Volume 8 

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:


– Émile Zola:
– Captain Burle
The Miller’s Daughter
Jean Gourdon’s Four Days
The Fete At Coqueville
The Flood
Death of Olivier Becaille
Nana


– Stewart Edward White:The Girl Who Got Rattled
Billy’s Tenderfoot
The River-Boss
The Saving Grace
The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
The Girl in Red
The Fifth Way

– Sarah Orne Jewett:A Winter Courtship
Going to Shrewsbury
The White Rose Road
The Town Poor
A Native of Winby
Looking Back on Girlhood
The Passing of Sister Barsett

– Willa Cather A Burglar’s Christmas
A Wagner Matinee
On the Gull’s Road
Paul’s Case
The Enchanted Bluff
The Namesake
The Garden Lodge

– George Ade The Fable of the Preacher Who Flew His Kite, But Not Because He Wished to Do So
The Fable of the Two Mandolin Players and His Willing Performer
The Fable of the Parents Who Tinkered with the Offspring
The Fable of the Man Who Didn’t Care for Storybooks
The Fable of the Kid Who Shifted His Ideal
The Fable of How Uncle Brewster was Too Shifty for the Tempter
The Fable of Lutie, the False Alarm, and How She Finished about the Time that She Started

– Robert W. Chambers:The Messenger
The Repairer of Reputations
The Purple Emperor
Passeur
The Key to Grief
A Matter of Interest
Pompe Funèbre

– George Gissing The House Of Cobwebs
A Capitalist
Christopherson
Humplebee
The Scrupulous Father
A Poor Gentleman
Miss Rodney’s Leisure

– Lord Dunsany:Chu-Bu and Sheemish
The Hoard of the Gibbelins
The Quest of the Queen’s Tears
How One Came, As Was Foretold, To The City Of Never
The Wonderful Window
The Bride Of The Man Horse
The House Of The Sphinx

– Ruth Mc Enery Stuart:
Sonny’s Christenin’
Solomon Crow’s Christmas Pockets
The Two Tims
Old Easter
Saint Idyl’s Light
Little Mother Quackalina
Blink

– Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson:The Railroad and the Churchyard
The Father
The Bridal March
One Day
Mother’s Hands
Thrond
Absalom’s Hair

Giới thiệu về tác giả

Émile Zola was born April 2, 1840 in Paris, France. In 1865 he published his controversial first novel, La Confession de Claude. As the founder of the naturalist movement, Zola also published several treatises to explain his theories on art. He died on September 28, 1902.
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Stewart Edward White (12 March 1873 September 18, 1946) was an American writer, novelist, and spiritualist. He was a brother of noted mural painter Gilbert White.
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Sarah Orne Jewett, (born Sept. 3, 1849, South Berwick, Maine, U.S.died June 24, 1909, South Berwick), American writer of regional fiction that centred on life in Maine.
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Willa Catherpublished her first book of verses, April Twilights, in 1903. With O Pioneers! (1913) and My Ántonia (1918), which has frequently been seen as her finest achievement, she found her characteristic themesthe spirit and courage of the frontier she had known in her youth. One of Ours (1922), which won the Pulitzer Prize, and A Lost Lady (1923) mourned the passing of the pioneer spirit
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George Ade, (born Feb. 9, 1866, Kentland, Ind., U.S.died May 16, 1944, Brook, Ind.), American playwright and humorist whose Fables in Slangsummarized the kind of wisdom accumulated by the country boy in the city.
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Robert William Chambers(May 26, 1865 December 16, 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories titled The King in Yellow, published in 1895.
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George Robert Gissing(22 November 1857 28 December 1903) was an English novelist who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903.
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Lord Dunsany, 18th Baron of Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name Lord Dunsany.
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Ruth Mc Enery Stuart(18491917) was an American author.Stuart was active in her literary career from 1888 until 1917, producing some 75 works.
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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson(8 December 1832 26 April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature ‘as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit’,