25+ The World's Greatest Short Stories. Vol. 2

• Washington Irving (1783–1859) – American writer and diplomat, best known for short stories and historical sketches. • Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) – American poet and writer, master of gothic fiction and pioneer of the detective genre. • Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) – Russian novelist, known for "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov." • Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was a Prague-born Austrian-Czech writer, a key figure in 20th-century literature.  • Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812–1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. • Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) – Russian novelist, known for "Fathers and Sons," and a promoter of Russian literature in the West. • Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was an Irish American writer known for The Great Gatsby. • Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) was a Polish-British novelist acclaimed for his masterful English prose, despite learning the language in his twenties. • Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) – American short story writer, journalist, and Civil War veteran, author of "The Devil's Dictionary." • Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) – British writer and physician, creator of Sherlock Holmes. • Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937) – American writer, famous for weird and horror fiction like "The Call of Cthulhu." • Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. • Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893) was a renowned French author and master of the short story. • Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) – Renowned Russian writer, author of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina." • Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) – Russian playwright and short story writer, a key figure in world literature. • Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer. She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors. • Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Murry, 1888–1923) was a New Zealand writer and modernist known for her innovative short stories. • Herbert George Wells (1866–1946) – English writer, known for his science fiction, including "The War of the Worlds." • Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle, 1783–1842) was a French writer known for his sharp psychological insights and as an early pioneer of realism. • Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was a French novelist and playwright.  • Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) was an American writer and humorist. • Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894–1963) was an English writer and philosopher. • Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was an American novelist and journalist. • Nikolay Gogol (1809–1852) – Russian writer of Ukrainian origin, famous for "Dead Souls" and "The Government Inspector." • O. Henry (William Sydney Porter, 1862–1910) – American short story writer, known for his twist endings. • Jack London (John Griffith Chaney, 1876–1916) was an American novelist and journalist.