Short Stories: B @ Classic Reader

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Balzac, Honore de
About the Monk Amador, Who was a Glorious Abbot of Turpenay Atheist's Mass Bertha the Penitent Brothers-in-Arms Concerning a Poor Man Who was Called Le Vieux Par-Chemins Concerning a Provost Who Did Not Recognise Things Continence of King Francis the First Danger of Being Too Innocent Dear Night of Love Despair in Love Devil's Heir Fair Imperia Fair Imperia Married False Courtesan High Constable's Wife How the Chateau d'Azay Came to be Built How the Pretty Maid of Portillon Convinced Her Judge	In Which it is Demonstrated that Fortune is Always Feminine Innocence King's Sweetheart Maid of Thilouse Merry Jests of King Louis the Eleventh Merry Tattle of the Nuns of Poissy Message Odd Sayings of Three Pilgrims Perseverance in Love Recruit Red Inn Reproach Sermon of the Merry Vicar of Meudon Three Clerks of Saint Nicholas Venial Sin Vicar of Azay-le-Rideau
Banim, John
Rival Dreamers
Barbour, Ralph Henry
Acting for the Best Barring the Way Coals of Fire College Santa Clause Death-Bed Confession Dub Grandsire Triples Guilty Her Marriage Lines His First Assignment McTurkle, the Band	New Boy at Hilltop One Way of Love Patsy Pemberton's Fluke Proving of Jerry Race with the Waters Seventh Tutor Son and Heir Triple Play Triumph of "Curly"
Barlow, Jane
Lost Recruit
Barr, Robert
Alpine Divorce Ambassador's Pigeons "And the Rigour of the Game" Archbishop's Gift Bromley Gibberts Story Case of Fever Converted Count Konrad's Courtship Count's Apology Deal on 'Chang Dramatic Point Dynamite Explosion Electrical Slip Exposure of Lord Stansford "Gentlemen: The King!" Hour and the Man Hour-Glass How the Captain Got His Steamer Out International Row Invitation Ladies Man	Long Ladder Man Who was not on the Passenger List Miss McMillan Modern Samson Mrs. Tremain My Stowaway Not According to the Code "Out of Thun" Over the Stelvio Pass Purification Purser's Story Shadow of the Greenback Share and Share Alike Society for the Reformation of Poker Players Terrible Experience of Plodkins Transformation Two Florentine Balconies Understudy Vengeance of the Dead Warrior Maid of San Carlos Which Was the Murderer?
Barrie, James M.
Courting of T'Nowhead's Bell	Inconsiderate Waiter
Baum, L. Frank
Box of Robbers Capture of Father Time Dummy That Lived Enchanted Types Girl Who Owned a Bear Glass Dog	King of the Polar Bears Laughing Hippopotamus Magic Bon Bons Mandarin and the Butterfly Queen of Quok Wonderful Pump
Beach, Rex Ellingwood
Bitter Root Billings, Arbiter Colonel and the Horse-Thief Cub Reporter Flesh His Stock in Trade Laughing Bill Hyde Moon, the Maid, and the Winged Shoes Mule Driver and the Garrulous Mute North of Fifty-Three North Wind's Malice Out of the Night	Pardners Real and the Make-Believe Running Elk Scourge Shyness of Shorty Test Thaw at Slisco's Where Northern Lights Come Down O' Nights With Bridges Burned With Interest to Date
Beaumont, Mary
Revenge of Her Race
Beck, L. Adams
Building of the Taj Mahal Hatred of the Queen. A Story of Burma How Great is the Glory of Kwannon!	Incomparable Lady. A Story of China With a Moral Ninth Vibration Round-Faced Beauty
Bennett, Arnold
Blue Suit Cat and Cupid Catching the Train Fortune Teller Glimpse Half-a-Sovereign Heroism of Thomas Chadwick Hot Potatoes Jock-at-a-Venture Letter and the Lie Long-Lost Uncle	Mimi Revolver Supreme Illusion Three Episodes in the Life of Mr Cowlishaw, Dentist Tiger and the Baby Tight Hand Under the Clock Unfair Advantage Why the Clock Stopped Widow of the Balcony
Besant, Sir Walter
Quarantine Island
Bierce, Ambrose
Affair At Coulter's Affair Of Outposts Arrest Baby Tramp Baffled Ambuscade Beyond The Wall Bivouac of the Dead Boarded Window Charles Ashmore's Trail Chickamauga Cold Greeting Coup De Grace Crime at Pickett's Mill Damned Thing Death Of Halpin Frayser Diagnosis of Death Difficulty of Crossing a Field Four Days in Dixie Fruitless Assignment George Thurston Haita The Shepherd Haunted Valley Heiress from Redhorse Horseman in the Sky Hypnotist Imperfect Conflagration Inhabitant Of Carcosa Isle of Pines John Bartine's Watch John Mortonson's Funeral Jug Of Syrup Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General Killed at Resaca Little of Chickamauga Man and the Snake Man with Two Lives Middle Toe of the Right Foot	Mocking-Bird Moonlit Road Moxon's Master My Favorite Murder My Favourite Murder Night Doings At 'Deadman's' Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Oil of Dog Old Man Eckert's On a Mountain One Kind of Officer One Of The Missing One Of Twins One Officer, One Man One Summer Night Other Lodgers Parker Adderson, Philosopher Present at a Hanging Psychological Shipwreck Realm Of The Unreal Resumed Identity Secret Of Macarger's Gulch Son of the Gods Spook House Staley Fleming's Hallucination Story of a Conscience Stranger Thing at Nolan Three and One are One Tough Tussle Two Military Executions Unfinished Race Vine on a House Watcher By The Dead What I Saw of Shiloh What Occurred at Franklin Wireless Message
Bishop, William Henry
One of the Thirty Pieces
Bjoernson, Bjoernstjerne
Father	Railroad and the Churchyard
Black, William
Queen Tita's Wager
Blackwood, Algernon
Case of Eavesdropping Empty House Haunted Island Keeping His Promise Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp	Smith: An Episode in a Lodging-House Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York Suspicious Gift With Intent to Steal Wood of the Dead
Bower, B.M.
First Aid to Cupid Lamb Reveler	Spirit of the Range Unheavenly Twins When the Cook Fell Ill
Bunner, Henry Cuyler
Documents in the Case	Nice People

Short Stories: B

Balzac, Honore de

Banim, John

Barbour, Ralph Henry

Barlow, Jane

Barr, Robert

Barrie, James M.

Baum, L. Frank

Beach, Rex Ellingwood

Beaumont, Mary

Beck, L. Adams

Bennett, Arnold

Besant, Sir Walter

Bierce, Ambrose

Bishop, William Henry

Bjoernson, Bjoernstjerne

Black, William

Blackwood, Algernon

Bower, B.M.

Bunner, Henry Cuyler