The Best European Short Stories

A delightful anthology of great works by some of Europe’s greatest short story writers.

• “The Marquise” by George Sand
• “The Bundle of Letters” by Maurus Jokai
• “The Pistol Shot” by Alexander Pushkin
• “The Mad Veteran of Fort Ratonneau” by Ludwig Achim von Arnim
• “Twenty-six Men and a Girl” by Maxim Gorky
• “Zodomirsky’s Duel” by Alexandre Dumas
• “The Mines of Falun” by E. T. A. Hoffmann
• “Mademoiselle Fifi” by Guy de Maupassant
• “Maestro Niccolo and the Pig” by Gio Sabadino
• “The Father” by Björnstjerne Björnson
• “Mons. Cassecrouche’s Inspiration” by George Walter Thornbury
• “Malachi’s Cove” by Anthony Trollope
• “The Judgement of Paris” by Leonard Merrick
• “A Queer Night in Paris” by Guy de Maupassant
• “Immensee” by Theodor Storm
• “The Paradise of Cats” by Emile Zolà
• “In the Reign of Terror” by Anatole France
• “The Scholar” by Ludwig Tieck
• “The Long Exile” by Count Leo Tolstoy
• “The Encased Man” by Anton Chekhov
• “The Criminal from Lost Honour” by Friedrich Schiller
• “The Story of Brave Kasper and Fair Annie” by Clemens Brentano
• “The Black Ferry” by John Galt
• “The Mummy’s Foot” by Théophile Gautier
• “The Clockmaker of Poissy” by Stanley John Weyman
• “One Thing Leads to Another” by Stacy Aumonier
• “The Roman Road” by Kenneth Grahame
• “A Child’s Revenge” by Paul Bourget
• “The Honest Thief” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• “The Dead” by James Joyce
• “The Stone Dragon” by R. Murray Gilchrist
• “Story” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe