Treasure 21: A Collection of Classic Short Stories is a series of finest masterworks in short fiction. The short stories in this collection are perfect for those who are seeking for diverse genres of reading. It is also an ingenious guide for lovers of English Language and Literature. This book includes masterpieces of Western, European, Asian and American authors such as R. K. Narayan, Guy de Maupassant, W.W. Jacobs, Leo Tolstoy, Saki, William Somerset Maugham, Frank Stockton, W.J. Turner, Anton Chekhov, O. Henry, Arthur Conan Doyle, A. J. Cronin, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Orwell, Rabindranath Tagore, H.G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, Hugh B. Brown, and Katherine Mansfield.The treasures included in this edition are: An Astrologer’s Day, At Sea, The Monkey’s Paw, Three Hermits, The Story Teller, The Man with the Scar, The Lady or the Tiger, The Man who saved Pumpelsdrop, The Shoemaker and The Devil, The Ransom of Red Chief, The Adventure of the Dying Detective, The Ant and the Grasshopper, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Luck, Young Goodman Brown, Shooting an Elephant, Kabuliwala, The Stone Bacillus, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Painter and the Child, and A Cup of Tea. We hope that these stories will surely guide us toward the often neglected or misunderstood truths that we must examine in our own lives -- and the lives of those around us.