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H.G. Wells

The 7 best short stories collection presents a special selection of works by noteworthy writers. This edition features the English writer H. G. Wells. Wells was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, and even including two books on war games. 

He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a "father of science fiction". This book contains the following writings: The Time Machine; A Dream Of Armageddon; The Crystal Egg; The Man Who Could Work Miracles; The Flowering of the Strange Orchid; The Sea Riders; The Apple. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

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7 best short stories by H. G. Wells

Barry Pain

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.

7 best short stories by Barry Pain

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dunbar began to write stories and verse when still a child; he was president of his high school's literary society. He published his first poems at the age of 16 in a Dayton newspaper.

The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this remarkable author for your enjoyment:

- The Scapegoat.
- One Christmas At Shiloh.
- The Mission Of Mr. Scatters.
- A Matter Of Doctrine.
- Old Abe's Conversion.
- The Race Question.
- A Defender Of The Faith.

7 best short stories by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Ethel Watts Mumford

Ethel Watts Mumford was an American author from New York City. After her first husband grew intolerant of her prolific writing and art career, she fled to San Francisco in 1899 with their only child, a son.
This book contains:

- The Arabian Days of Jimmy Jennette.
- The Bells of Cullam .
- The Cordon Bleu of the Sierra.
- The Eyes of the Heart.
- The Fear Motif.
- Her Groove.
- How Beelzebub Came to the Convent.

7 best short stories by Ethel Watts Mumford

Alice Duer Miller

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.

7 best short stories by Alice Duer Miller

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford was one of the United States's most widely-published authors, her career spanned more than six decades and included many literary genres, such as short stories, poems, novels, literary criticism, biographies, and memoirs.
This book contains:

- The Mad Lady.
- A Homely Sacrifice.
- Her Eyes Are Doves.
- An Angel in the House.
- Yesterday.
- The Conquering Will.
- The Deacon's Whistle.

7 best short stories by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Mary Roberts Rinehartwas an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel in 1920. Rinehart is considered the source of the phrase "The butler did it" from her novel The Door (1930), although the novel does not use the exact phrase. Rinehart is also considered to have invented the "Had-I-but-Known" school of mystery writing, with the publication of The Circular Staircase (1908).

This book contains:

- Affinities.

- The Family Friend.

- Clara's Little Escapade.

- The Borrowed House.

- Sauce For The Gander.

- Twenty-Two.

- Jane.

7 best short stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was a polymath, poet, musician, and artist from the Indian subcontinent. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse" of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal".

This book contains:

- The Cabuliwallah.

- The Home-Coming.

- Onde There Was A King.

- The Child's Return.

- Master Mashai.

- Subha.

- The Postmaster.

7 best short stories by Rabindranath Tagore

Mary Austin

Mary Austin was a novelist and essayist who wrote about Native American culture and social problems.
This book contains:

- The Land Of Little Rain.
- Water Trails Of The Ceriso.
- The Scavengers.
- The Pocket Hunter.
- Shoshone Land.
- Jimville.
- My Neighbor's Field.

7 best short stories by Mary Austin

Ellen Glasgow

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 Ellen Glasgow was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942. A lifelong. Glasgow portrayed the changing world of the contemporary South, differing from the idealistic escapism that characterized Southern literature after Reconstruction. 

Works selected for this book: The Shadowy Third; Dares Gift; The Past; Whispering Leaves; A Point in Morals; The Difference; Jordans End; Bonus content: "Evasive Idealism in Literature by Ellen Glasgow. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

7 best short stories by Ellen Glasgow

Gertrude Atherton

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 Gertrude Atherton was an American author. Her bestseller Black Oxen was made into a silent movie of the same name. In addition to novels, she wrote short stories, essays, and articles for magazines and newspapers on such issues as feminism, politics, and war. 

She was sometimes controversial, especially for her anti-communism and her white supremacist views. Works selected for this book: The Bell in the Fog; The Striding Place; The Dead and the Countess; The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number; A Monarch of a Small Survey; The Tragedy of a Snob; Crowned with One Crest. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

7 best short stories by Gertrude Atherton

James Oliver Curwood

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 James Oliver "Jim" Curwood was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. At least one hundred and eighty motion pictures have been based on or directly inspired by his novels and short stories; one was produced in three versions from 1919 to 1953. 

At the time of his death, Curwood was the highest paid author in the world. Works selected for this book: Back to God's Country; The Yellow-Back; The Fiddling Man; L'ange; The Case of Beauvais; The Other Man's Wife; The Strength of Men. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

7 best short stories by James Oliver Curwood

Mary Noailles Murfree

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 Mary Noailles Murfree, an American fiction writer of novels and short stories who wrote under the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock. She is considered by many to be Appalachia's first significant female writer and her work a necessity for the study of Appalachian literature, although a number of characters in her work reinforce negative stereotypes about the region. 

She has been favorably compared to Bret Harte and Sarah Orne Jewett, creating post-Civil War American local-color literature. Works selected for this book: The raid of the guerrilla; Who crosses storm mountain?; The crucial moment; Una of the hill country; The lost guidon; Wolfs Head; His unquiet ghost. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

7 best short stories by Mary Noailles Murfree

L. M. Montgomery

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 L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. Anne Shirley, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. 

Works selected for this book: A Christmas Mistake; Miss Calista's Peppermint Bottle; The Way of the Winning of Anne; The Red Room; A Strayed Allegiance; A Case of Trespass; In Spite of Myself. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

7 best short stories by L. M. Montgomery

Maurice Leblanc

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 Maurice Leblanc, a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes. 

Works selected for this book: The Invisible Prisoner; Two-Hundred Thousand Francs Reward!...; The Wedding Ring; The Sign Of The Shadow; The Infernal Trap; The Red Silk Scarf; Shadowed By Death. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

7 best short stories by Maurice Leblanc

Agatha Christie

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 English author Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie was an English writer known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies and according to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author.

Works selected for this book:
The Adventure of The Western Star;
 The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor; 
The Adventure of the Cheap Flat; 
The Mystery of Hunters Lodge; 
The Million Dollar Bond Robbery; 
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb; 
The Kidnapped Prime Minister. 

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7 best short stories by Agatha Christie

Booth Tarkington

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 american author Booth Tarkington. Tarkington is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered America's greatest living author.

Works selected for this book:
The Fascinating Stranger; 
The Party;
The One-Hundred-Dollar Bill;
 Jeannette;
 The Spring Concert; 
Willamilla; 
The Only Child.

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7 best short stories by Booth Tarkington

Aldous Huxley

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.

7 best short stories by Aldous Huxley

Horacio Quiroga

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 uruguayan author Horacio Quiroga.

Horacio Quiroga was a playwright, poet, and short-story writer. He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, used the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive. He also excelled in portraying mental illness and hallucinatory states, a skill he gleaned from Edgar Allan Poe, according to some critics. His influence can be seen in the Latin American magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez and the postmodern surrealism of Julio Cortázar.

Works selected for this book:
- How the Rays Defended the Ford;
- The Story of Two Raccoon Cubs and Two Man Cubs;
- The Parrot That Lost Its Tail;
- The Blind Doe;
- The Alligator War;
- How the Flamingoes Got Their Stockings;
- The Giant Tortoise's Golden Rule.

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7 best short stories by Horacio Quiroga

Algernon Blackwood

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 Blackwood's 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!

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