This book includes a collection of short stories by the most prominent English writers who founded the art of the short story. This unique collection of stories was chosen to provide a description of English society with all its sects and backgrounds, in addition to the diversity of the authors' narrative styles, which gives the reader room to view different story models. The collection included: the story "Colonel Beech's Bear" by David Garnett, the story "A Terrible Strange Bed" by William Wilkie Collins, the stories "The Carrot of Epure Ness" and the Crystal Egg by H.G. Wells, the story "The Bell Palm" by H.G. Wells. Allen Vaughan Elston, "The Change of Treatment" by W. Jacobs, and "The Monkey's Paw" by W. Jacobs.