7 best short stories - British Authors / 7 best short stories - specials Bd.29 (ePub)

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, better known as G. K. Chesterton, was a writer, poet, philosopher, playwright, journalist, speaker, theologian, biographer, literary and English art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of the paradox."
On May 22, 1859, Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1890 his novel, A Study in Scarlet , introduced the character of Detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle would go on to write 60 stories about Sherlock Holmes. He also strove to spread his Spiritualism faith through a series of books that were written from 1918 to 1926. Doyle died of a heart attack in Crowborough, England on July 7, 1930.
John Galsworthy (14 August 1867 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (19061921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
W.W. Jacobs, in full William Wymark Jacobs, (born September 8, 1863, London, Englanddied September 1, 1943, London), English short-story writer best known for his classic horror story "The Monkey's Paw."
Born in England in 1885, D.H. Lawrence is regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He published many novels and poetry volumes during his lifetime, including Sons and Lovers and Women in Love, but is best known for his infamous Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Born into a privileged English household in 1882, author Virginia Woolf wrote modernist classics including 'Mrs. Dalloway' and 'To the Lighthouse,' as well as pioneering feminist texts, 'A Room of One's Own' and 'Three Guineas.' She committed suicide in 1941, at the age of 59.
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people