A hardcover edition embossed with silver foil Is there a horrible secret hidden beneath the Usher family home? Who or what does the samurai's servant hear moving among the corpses inside Kyoto's ancient gate? And will Federico give his beloved falcon to the noble Monna Giovanna, whom he adores? This collection of 25 stories captures the brilliance of the short story as it develops across the ages: From Boccaccio's Falcon and the Brothers Grimm's Hansel and Gretel to the modern classics of Dickens, Chekhov, Maupassant, Kafka, O. Henry, Kate Chopin, Ambrose Bierce, Akutagawa Ryunosuke and many more. Short aber oho: Weltliteratur auf Englisch in kleinen Happen für unterwegs Schmökernd die eigenen Englischkenntnisse verbessern Literarische TopQualität in gut verdaulichen Portionen Mit Texten von Dickens und Doyle, James Joyce und Henry James, Washington Irving, Mary Shelley, Kafka, Chekhov, Pushkin und vielen anderen