This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: Mary Shelley D. H. Lawrence Ellis Parker Butler Anthony Trollope Zona Gale Emma Orczy Don Marquis Charles W. Chesnutt Kathleen Norris Stanley G. Weinbaum Honoré de Balzac M. R. James Banjo Paterson Bret Harte Henry Lawson W. W. Jacobs Charlotte M. Yonge Mary E. Wilkins Freeman L. Frank Baum O. Henry William Dean Howells T. S. Arthur Sherwood Anderson Robert Barr Lafcadio Hearn Giovanni Verga Hamlin Garland Émile Zola Stewart Edward White Sarah Orne Jewett Willa Cather George Ade Robert W. Chambers Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Ruth McEnery Stuart Lord Dunsany George Gissing Théophile Gautier Paul Heyse Selma Lagerlöf Thomas Burke Edith Nesbit Arthur Morrison Stacy Aumonier John Galsworthy E. W. Hornung Ernest Bramah