The Literary World Seventh Reader

This book presents a collection of short stories from the most read authors of the time of its publishing. It is split thematically into several chapters, each collecting shorts on a specific topic. For example, it contains a chapter called «Modern Wonder Tales,» which enlists such stories as «A Voyage to the Moon» by Edgar Allan Poe and «A Hunt Beneath the Ocean» by Jules Verne. Other chapters are dedicated to nature, moving adventure, home scenes, and memoirs of WWI.