the time. The spread of the short story movement continued into South America, specifically Brazil. The novelist Machado de Assis was an important short story writer from Brazil at the time, under the influences of Xavier de Maistre, Laurence Sterne, Guy de Maupassant, among others. At the end of the 19th century, the writer João do Rio became popular by short stories about the bohemianism. Lima Barreto wrote about the former slaves and nationalism in Brazil, with his most recognized work being Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma. Examples include: India Rabindranath Tagore "The Kabuliwala" "The Hungry Stone" "The Wife's Letter" "The Parrot's Training" "Punishment" Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay "Bindu's Son" "Abhagi's Heaven" "Mahesh" "Ram's Good Lesson" "Lalu" (3 parts) "The Husband" Premchand "The Shroud" "The Cost of Milk" "Lottery" Poland Bolesław Prus "A Legend of Old Egypt" (1888) Portugal Almeida Garrett Alexandre Herculano Eça de Queiroz Russia Ivan Turgenev A Sportsman's Sketches Fyodor Dostoyevski "The Meek One" (1876) "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" (1877) Leo Tolstoy "Ivan the Fool" (1885) "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" (1886) "Alyosha the Pot" (1905) Anton Chekhov "The Bet" (1889) "Ward No. 6" (1892) "The Lady with the Dog" (1899) Maxim Gorky "Twenty-six Men and a Girl" (1899) United Kingdom Thomas Hardy "The Three Strangers" (1883), "A Mere Interlude" (1885), "Barbara of the House of Grebe" (1890) Rudyard Kipling Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) The Jungle Book (1894) Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)- detective story H.G. Wells- Science fiction "The Country of the Blind" (1904) United States Herman Melville The Piazza Tales (1856) Mark Twain "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" Henry James "The Real Thing" (1892) "Maud-Evelyn" The Beast in the Jungle (1903) Kate Chopin Stephen Crane 1900–1945 In the United Kingdom, periodicals like The Strand Magazine and Story-Teller contributed to the popularity of the short story. Several authors during this time wrote short stories centered on the devices of satire and humor. One such author, Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916), also known by his pen name of Saki, wrote satirical short stories about Edwardian England. P.G. Wodehouse published his first collection of comical stories about the valet, Jeeves, in 1917. Other common genres of short stories during the early to mid 1900s in England were detective stories and thrillers. Many of these detective stories were written by authors such as G.K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, and Dorothy