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
