This outstanding collection features short stories by a variety of great authors. Ranging from the 19th to the 20th centuries, writers include, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Henri Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, O. Henry, Edgar Alphonse Daudet, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Frank Richard Stockton, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol and Arthur Machen, Henri Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Murry.