It is often said that the best writers write about something they know, something they understand. And it's excellent advice. So when authors of the calibre of Stephen Crane, James Fenimore Cooper, Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and many others share that experience with us, a bond of trust and respect is easily attained.

1 - Short Stories Based on the Author's Own Experience - An Introduction
2 - Baa Baa Black Sheep by Rudyard Kipling
3 - My Red Cap by Louisa May Alcott
4 - The Peasant Marey by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5 - The Mourner by Mary Shelley
6 - How I Killed a Bear by Charles Dudley Warner
7 - A Red Flower by Vsevolod Garshin
8 - The Eclipse by James Fenimore Cooper
9 - The Open Boat by Stephen Crane
10 - The Servant by S T Semyonov
11 - Youth - Part 1 by Joseph Conrad
12 - Youth - Part 2 by Joseph Conrad
13 - The Brothers by Louisa May Alcott