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Short Stories

Index of Authors
Joseph Addison Aesop Louisa May Alcott Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Hans Christian Andersen Sherwood Anderson T.S. Arthur Honoré de Balzac
J.M. Barrie L. Frank Baum Samuel Beckett Ambrose Bierce
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson William Black Giovanni Boccaccio John Buchan
Edward Bulwer-Lytton Egerton Castle Willa Cather Anton Chekhov
G.K. Chesterton Kate Chopin Wilkie Collins Richard Connell 
Joseph Conrad F. Marion Crawford Alphonse Daudet Richard Harding Davis
Thomas de Quincey Charles Dickens Fyodor Dostoevsky Arthur Conan Doyle
Alice Dunbar-Nelson T.S. Eliot Edna Ferber F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Fox, Jr. John Galsworthy Elizabeth C. Gaskell Nocolai Vasilyevich Gogol
Kenneth Grahame Anna Katherine Green Zane Grey Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm
H. Rider Haggard Edward Everett Hale Thomas Hardy Beatrice Harraden
Bret Harte Julian Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne Lafcadio Hearn
O Henry Oliver Wendell Holmes E.W. Hornung Clemence Housman
Victor Hugo Aldous Huxley Washington Irving W.W. Jacobs
M.R. James Jerome K. Jerome Sarah Orne Jewett James Joyce
Franz Kafka Gottfried Keller Alexander L. Kielland Rudyard Kipling
Charles & Mary Lamb Ring Lardner D.H. Lawrence Henry Lawson
Stephen Leacock Jack London George MacDonald Katherine Mansfield
Guy de Maupassant Herman Melville Lucy Maud Montgomery Christopher Morley
H.H. Munro Edith Nesbit Frank Norris Kathleen Thompson Norris
Fitz-James O'Brien  Baroness Emmuska Orczy Ouida Thomas Nelson Page
Andrew Barton Paterson Elia W. Peattie Edgar Allan Poe Eleanor H. Porter
Melville Davisson Post Beatrix Potter Alexander S. Pushkin Jacob A. Riis
Mary Roberts Rinehart Sax Rohmer Sir Walter Scott George Bernard Shaw
Gertrude Stein Robert Louis Stevenson Frank R. Stockton Bram Stoker
Harriet Beecher Stowe August Strindberg Booth Tarkington Bayard Taylor
William M. Thackeray Leo Tolstoy Anthony Trollope Ivan Turgenev
Mark Twain Henry van Dyke H.G. Wells Stanley J. Weyman
Edith Wharton Oscar Wilde Mary E. Wilkins Freeman John Strange Winter
P.G. Wodehouse Virginia Woolf Charlotte M. Yonge  
       

Collected Short Stories >

Joseph Addison   (1672-1719)
Constantia and Theodosius
More of Joseph Addison in our Poetry section!
Aesop   (620?-560? BC)
Fables  
Louisa May Alcott   (1832-1888)
A Garland for Girls Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories
On Picket Duty, and Other Tales
More of Louisa May Alcott in our Novels section!
Thomas Bailey Aldrich   (1836-1907)
Marjorie Daw Ponkapog Papers
The Cruise of the Dolphin
More of Thomas Bailey Aldrich in our
Novels
, Non-Fiction & Poetry sections!
Hans Christian Andersen   (1805-1875)
Fairy Tales and Stories  
Sherwood Anderson   (1876-1941)
Brothers I Want to Know Why
Motherhood Seeds
Senility The Door of the Trap
The Dumb Man The Egg
The Man in the Brown Coat The New Englander
The Other Woman Unlighted Lamps
War Winesburg, Ohio
T.S. Arthur   (1809-1885)
A Good Name A Mystery Explained 
A Visit with the Doctor After a Shadow
Alice and the Pigeon Amy's Question
An Angel in Disguise Andy Lovell 
Coffee vs. Brandy Dressed for a Party
Hadn't Time for Trouble In the Way of Temptation
Little Lizzie On Guard
Other People's Eyes What Can I Do?
Which Was Most the Lady?
More of T.S. Arthur in our Novels section!
Honoré de Balzac   (1799-1850)
A Passion in the Desert About the Monk Amador, Who was a Glorious Abbot of Turpenay
Bertha the Penitent   Concerning a Poor Man Who was Called Le Vieux Par-Chemins
Concerning a Provost Who Did Not Recognise Things Despair in Love
How the Chateau d'Azay Came to be Built   How the Pretty Maid of Portillon Convinced Her Judge  
In Which it is Demonstrated that Fortune is Always Feminine Innocence
Odd Sayings of Three Pilgrims   Perseverance in Love
The Atheist's Mass The Brothers-in-Arms
The Continence of King Francis the First The Danger of Being Too Innocent  
The Dear Night of Love The Devil's Heir
The Fair Imperia   The Fair Imperia Married
The False Courtesan The High Constable's Wife
The King's Sweetheart The Maid of Thilouse
The Merry Jests of King Louis the Eleventh The Merry Tattle of the Nuns of Poissy 
The Message The Recruit
The Red Inn The Reproach
The Sermon of the Merry Vicar of Meudon The Three Clerks of Saint Nicholas
The Venial Sin The Vicar of Azay-le-Rideau
More of Honoré de Balzac in our Novels section!

J.M. Barrie  (1860-1937)

The Courting of T'Nowhead's Bell The Inconsiderate Waiter  
 
More of J.M. Barrie in our Novels section!
L. Frank Baum   (1856-1919)
The Box of Robbers The Capture of Father Time
The Dummy That Lived The Enchanted Types
The Girl Who Owned a Bear The Glass Dog
The King of the Polar Bears The Laughing Hippopotamus
The Magic Bon Bons The Mandarin and the Butterfly
The Queen of Quok The Stuffed Alligator
The Wonderful Pump
More of L. Frank Baum in our Novels section!

Samuel Beckett  (1906-1989)
Imagination Dead Imagine Lessness
Stirrings Still
 More of Samuel Beckett in our Drama & Poetry sections!
Ambrose Bierce   (1842-1914?)
A Baby Tramp A Baffled Ambuscade
A Bivouac of the Dead A Cold Greeting
A Diagnosis of Death A Fruitless Assignment
A Horseman in the Sky A Jug of Syrup
A Little of Chickamauga A Man with Two Lives
A Psychological Shipwreck A Resumed Identity
A Son of the Gods A Tough Tussle
A Vine on a House A Watcher by the Dead
An Affair of Outposts  An Arrest
An Heiress from Redhorse An Imperfect Conflagration
An Inhabitant of Carcosa An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
An Unfinished Race At Old Man Eckert's
Beyond the Wall Charles Ashmore's Trail
Chickamauga Four Days in Dixie  
George Thurston Haita the Shepherd
John Bartine's Watch   John Mortonson's Funeral  
Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General Killed at Resaca
Moxon's Master My Favourite Murder
Oil of Dog On a Mountain
One Kind of Officer   One of the Missing
One of Twins   One Officer, One Man  
One Summer Night Parker Adderson, Philosopher
Present at a Hanging Staley Fleming's Hallucination
The Affair at Coulter's The Boarded Window
The Coup de Grace The Crime at Pickett's Mill  
The Damned Thing   The Death of Halpin Frayser  
The Difficulty of Crossing a Field The Haunted Valley
The Hypnotist The Isle of Pines
The Man and the Snake The Middle Toe of the Right Foot  
The Mocking-Bird The Moonlit Road
The Night Doings at 'Deadman's'   The Other Lodgers
The Realm of the Unreal The Secret of Macarger's Gulch  
The Spook House The Story of a Conscience
The Stranger The Thing at Nolan
Three and One are One   Two Military Executions
What I Saw of Shiloh What Occurred at Franklin
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson   (1832-1910)
The Father The Railroad and the Churchyard
 
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William Black   (1841-1898)
Queen Tita's Wager  
Giovanni Boccaccio   (1313-1375)
The Story of Griselda
More of Giovanni Boccaccio in our Novels section!
John Buchan   (1875-1940)
Space The Moon Endureth
The Rime of True Thomas
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton   (1803-1873)
The Haunted and the Haunters, or the House and the Brain Tomlinsoniana
 
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Novels
, Drama & Non-Fiction sections!
Egerton Castle   (1858-1920)
The Baron's Quarry  
Willa Cather   (1873-1947)
A Death in the Desert A Wagner Matinee
Eric Hermannson's Soul Flavia and Her Artists
On the Divide Paul's Case
The Affair at Grover Station The Bohemian Girl
The Enchanted Bluff The Garden Lodge
The Marriage of Phaedra The Sculptor's Funeral
More of Willa Cather in our Novels section!

Anton Chekhov   (1860-1904)
A Boring Story A Lady's Story
A Malefactor A Man in a Case
A Nervous Breakdown A Tragic Actor
A Transgression About Love
After the Theatre Agafya
Ariadne At Christmas Time
Champagne: A Wayfarer's Story Difficult People
Dreams Gooseberries
Grief  Gusev
Happiness In Exile
In the Coach-House In the Ravine
Lady with Lapdog Misery
Misfortune On Official Duty
Panic Fears Peasant Wives
Peasants Small Fry
Sorrow The Beauties
The Bet The Cattle-Dealers
The Darling The First-Class Passenger
The Grasshopper The Head-Gardener's Story
The Huntsman The Kiss
The Lottery Ticket The New Villa
The Pipe The Post
The Privy Councillor The Requiem
The Schoolmistress The Shoemaker and the Devil
The Student The Witch
Vanka Ward 6
 
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G. K. Chesterton   (1874-1936)
A Miscellany of Men Alarms and Discursions
The Club of Queer Trades
Much more of G.K. Chesterton in our Novels,
Drama
, Poetry & Non-Fiction sections!
   
Kate Chopin   (1850-1904)
A Pair of Silk Stockings A Reflection
A Respectable Woman  At the 'Cadian Ball
Beyond the Bayou Desiree's Baby
Ma'ame Pelagie The Kiss    
The Locket The Storm
The Story of an Hour
More of Kate Chopin in our Novels section!
Wilkie Collins   (1824-1889)
A Fair Penitent
Much more of Wilkie Collins in our Novels section!
Richard Connell   (1893-1949)
The Most Dangerous Game  

Joseph Conrad   (1857-1924)
Amy Foster  An Outpost of Progress
Gaspar Ruiz Karain: A Memoir
Tales of Hearsay Tales of Unrest
The Duel (U.S. title "The Point of Honor") The Idiots
The Lagoon The Return
The Secret Sharer  To-morrow
Within the Tides Youth
 
Much more of Joseph Conrad in our
Novels
, Drama & Non-Fiction sections!
F. Marion Crawford   (1854-1909)
By the Waters of Paradise
More of F. Marion Crawford in our Novels section!
Alphonse Daudet   (1840-1897)
The Bad Zouave The Child Spy
The Game of Billiards The Last Class - The Story of a Little Alsatian
The Siege of Berlin
Richard Harding Davis   (1864-1916)
A Charmed Life A Question of Latitude
A Wasted Day Billy and the Big Stick
My Buried Treasure Peace Manoeuvres
The Amateur The Consul
The Frame Up  The Log of the 'Jolly Polly'
The Make-Believe Man The Man Who Could Not Lose
The Messengers The Nature Faker
The Spy
More of Richard Harding Davis in our Novels section!
Thomas de Quincey   (1785-1859)

The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

Much more of Thomas de Quincey in our Non-Fiction section!
Charles Dickens   (1812-1870)
A Christmas Tree A House to Let, et al
A Message from the Sea  Doctor Marigold
George Silverman's Explanation Going into Society
Holiday Romance Hunted Down
Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
Nobody's Story Reprinted Pieces  
Sketches by Boz Sketches of Young Couples
Sketches of Young Gentlemen Some Christmas Stories
The Child's Story The Haunted House
The Holly-Tree Inn The Lamplighter
The Poor Relation's Story The Schoolboy's Story
The Seven Poor Travellers The Signal-Man
The Trial for Murder The Uncommercial Traveller
The Wreck of the Golden Mary Three Ghost Stories
To Be Read At Dusk Tom Tiddler's Ground

What Christmas is as We Grow Older

Much more of Charles Dickens in our
Novels
, Poetry
& Non-Fiction sections!
Fyodor Dostoevsky   (1821-1881)
The Christmas Tree and the Wedding  
More of Dostoevsky in our Novels section!
Arthur Conan Doyle   (1859-1930)
His Last Bow The Mystery of Sasassa Valley
  
More Sherlock Holmes stories in our Novels section!

Alice Dunbar-Nelson   (1875-1935)
A Carnival Jangle By the Bayou St. John 
La Juanita Little Miss Sophie
M'sieu Fortier's Violin Mr. Baptiste
Odalie Sister Josepha
The Fisherman of Pass Christian  The Goodness of Saint Rocque
The Praline Woman Titee
Tony's Wife When the Bayou Overflows 

T.S. Eliot   (1888-1965)
Eeldrop and Appleplex
More of T.S. Eliot in our Poetry & Non-Fiction sections!
Edna Ferber   (1885-1968)
A Bush League Hero   Farmer in the Dell
Long Distance Maymeys from Cuba
One of the Old Girls Sun Dried
That Home-Town Feeling That's Marriage
The Frog and the Puddle The Gay Old Dog
The Homely Heroine The Kitchen Side of the Door
The Leading Lady The Man Who Came Back
The Maternal Feminine The Woman Who Tried to Be Good
Un Morso doo Pang What She Wore
When the Car Turns at 18th  
F. Scott Fitzgerald   (1896-1940)
Flappers and Philosophers   Tales of the Jazz Age
More of F. Scott Fitzgerald in our Novels section!
John Fox Jr.   (1862-1919)
A Purple Rhododendron A Trick o' Trade
Courtin' on Cutshin On Hell-Fer-Sartain Creek
Preachin' on Kingdom-Come  The Last Stetson
The Message in the Sand The Passing of Abraham Shivers
The Senator's Last Trade Through the Gap
More of John Fox Jr. in our Novels section!
John Galsworthy   (1867-1933)
Five Tales Inn of Tranquility, and Others
 
Much more of Oscar Wilde in our Novels,
Drama
& Non-Fiction sections!
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell   (1810-1865)
An Accursed Race   Round the Sofa
The Half-Brothers Victorian Short Stories, Vol. 2
  
More of Elizabeth C. Gaskell in our
Novels
& Non-Fiction sections!  
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol   (1809-1852)
St. John's Eve The Calash
The Cloak The Overcoat 
More of Nikolai Gogol in our Novels section!

Kenneth Grahame   (1859-1932)
Dream Days
More of Kenneth Grahame in our Novels section!
Anna Katharine Green   (1846-1935)
The Golden Slipper
More of Anna Katherine Green in our Novels section!
Zane Grey   (1872-1939)
Breaking into Fast Company  False Colors
Old Well-Well  The Knocker 
The Manager of Madden's Hill  The Redheaded Outfield  
The Rube  The Rube's Honeymoon
The Rube's Pennant The Rube's Waterloo
The Winning Ball  
More of Zane Grey in our Novels section!

Jacob Ludwig Grimm   (1785-1863)  &  Wilhelm Karl Grimm   (1786-1859)
The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm  

Henry Rider Haggard   (1856-1925)
Elissa Hunter Quartermain's Story
Long Odds
More of Henry Rider Haggard in our Novels section!
Edward Everett Hale   (1822-1909)
The Brick Moon and Other Stories The Man Without a Country and Other Tales
 
More of Edward Everett Hale in our Non-Fiction section!   
Thomas Hardy   (1840-1928)
A Group of Noble Dames  Life's Little Ironies
Squire Petrick's Lady
More of Thomas Hardy in our Novels & Poetry sections!
Beatrice Harraden   (1864-1936)
An Idyll of London The Bird on its Journey
 
 More of Beatrice Harraden in our Novels section!

Bret Harte   (1836-1902)
A Convert of the Mission A Lonely Ride
A Mother of Five A Romance of the Line
A Vision of the Fountain A Widow of the Santa Ana Valley
A Yellow Dog An Episode of Fiddletown
Barker's Luck   Bohemian Days in San Francisco
Brown of Calaveras   Bulger's Reputation  
Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff High-Water Mark
How Reuben Allen "Saw Life" in San Francisco How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar
In the Tules Jimmy's Big Brother from California
Miggles Mliss
Notes by Flood and Field  Tennessee's Partner
The Devotion of Enriquez The Idyll of Red Gulch
The Indiscretion of Elsbeth   The Luck of Roaring Camp
The Man of No Account The Mermaid of Lighthouse Point
The Outcasts of Poker Flat The Right Eye of the Commander
The Youngest Miss Piper Three Vagabonds of Trinidad
Under the Eaves
More of Bret Harte in our Novels section!
Julian Hawthorne   (1846-1934)
David Poindexter's Disappearance The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations
  
More of Julian Hawthorne in our Novels section!
Nathaniel Hawthorne   (1804-1864)
Circe's Palace David Swan
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment Drowne's Wooden Image
Endicott and the Red Cross   Ethan Brand  
Feathertop: A Moralized Legend   Legends of the Province House: I. Howe's Masquerade
Legends of the Province House: II. Edward Randolph's Portrait Legends of the Province House: III. Lady Eleanore's Mantle
Legends of the Province House: IV. Old Esther Dudley  Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe
Mrs. Bullfrog My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure Rappaccini's Daughter
Roger Malvin's Burial The Ambitious Guest
The Artist of the Beautiful   The Birthmark
The Canterbury Pilgrims The Celestial Railroad
The Devil in Manuscript The Dragon's Teeth
The Egotism; or Bosom Serpent The Gentle Boy   
The Golden Fleece The Gray Champion
The Great Carbuncle The Great Stone Face
The Hollow of the Three Hills The Maypole of Merry Mount
The Minister's Black Veil The Minotaur
The Pomegranate Seeds The Procession of Life
The Pygmies The Shaker Bridal  
The Snow Image: A Childish Miracle The Wayside. Introductory
The Wedding Knell Wakefield  
Young Goodman Brown
More of Nathaniel Hawthorne in our Novels section!
Lafcadio Hearn   (1850-1904)
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things Some Chinese Ghosts
The Cedar Closet
More of Lafcadio Hearn in our Non-Fiction section!   

O Henry  [William Sydney Porter]   (1862-1910)
A Bird Of Baghdad A Blackjack Bargainer
A Call Loan A Chaparral Christmas Gift
A Chaparral Prince A Cosmopolite in a Cafe
A Little Local Colour   A Little Talk about Mobs
A Matter of Mean Elevation A Municipal Report
A Newspaper Story A Night in New Arabia 
A Poor Rule A Ramble In Aphasia
A Sacrifice Hit A Service of Love  
A Technical Error After Twenty Years 
An Adjustment of Nature An Afternoon Miracle
An Unfinished Story Babes In The Jungle
Best-Seller   Between Rounds
Blind Man's Holiday Buried Treasure
By Courier Calloway's Code
Christmas by Injunction  Compliments of the Season
Confessions of a Humorist Cupid a la Carte
From the Cabby's Seat Georgia's Ruling
"Girl"  He Also Serves
Hearts and Crosses Hearts and Hands
Hygeia at the Solito Lost on Dress Parade 
Madame Bo-Peep of the Ranches  Mammon and the Archer 
Man About Town Memoirs of a Yellow Dog
No Story One Dollar's Worth
Out of Nazareth Past One at Rodney's
Proof of the Pudding Psyche and the Pskyscraper
Round the Circle   Rus in Urbe
Schools and Schools Seats of the Haughty  
Sisters of the Golden Circle Sociology in Serge and Straw 
Springtime a la Carte  Strictly Business 
Suite Homes and their Romance Supply and Demand
Telemachus, Friend The Brief Debut of Tildy
The Caballero's Way  The Cactus 
The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock The Call of the Tame 
The Coming-Out of Maggie The Cop and the Anthem
The Day Resurgent  The Detective Detector 
The Dog and the Playlet  The Duel 
The Fifth Wheel The Furnished Room
The Gift of the Magi  The Girl and the Graft 
The Girl and the Habit   The Gold That Glittered
The Green Door The Handbook of Hymen
The Head-Hunter  The Hiding of Black Bill
The Higher Abdication The Higher Pragmatism
The Hypotheses of Failure  The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnson
The Last Leaf The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein
The Marry Month of May The Missing Chord
The Moment of Victory The Pimienta Pancakes
The Poet and the Peasant  The Princess and the Puma
The Ransom of Mack The Ransom of Red Chief
The Red Roses of Tonia The Reformation of Calliope
The Roads We Take The Robe of Peace
The Romance of a Busy Broker  The Rose of Dixie
The Rubber Plant's Story The Skylight Room
The Snow Man   The Song and the Sergeant 
The Sparrows in Madison Square The Sphinx Apple
The Theory and the Hound The Thing's the Play  
The Third Ingredient The Unknown Quantity
The Venturers The Whirligig of Life
The World and the Door Thimble, Thimble
To Him Who Waits Tobin's Palm  
Tommy's Burglar "What You Want"
Oliver Wendell Holmes   (1809-1894)
A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters
 More of Oliver Wendell Holmes in our Novels section!
E.W. Hornung   (1866-1921)
At the Pistol's Point
 More of E.W. Hornung in our Novels section!
 Clemence Housman   (1861-1955)
The Werewolf

Victor Marie Hugo   (1802-1885)
A Fight with a Cannon
More of Victor Hugo in our Novels section!
Aldous Huxley   (1894-1963)
Mortal Coils
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Washington Irving   (1783-1859)
Little Britain Rip Van Winkle, a Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker
The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow
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W.W. Jacobs   (1863-1943)
A Circular Tour A Distant Relative  
A Golden Venture A Love-Knot
A Mixed Proposal A Spirit of Avarice
A Tiger's Skin Admiral Peters
Alf's Dream An Adulteration Act
Angels' Visits Bill's Lapse
Bill's Paper Chase Blundell's Improvement
Breaking a Spell Captain Rogers
Cupboard Love Deserted
Dixon's Return Double Dealing
Dual Control Establishing Relations
Fairy Gold Fine Feathers
For Better or Worse Friends in Need
Good Intentions Her Uncle
His Lordship Homeward Bound
In the Family In the Library
Keeping Up Appearances Lawyer Quince
Manners Makyth Man Matrimonial Openings
Mixed Relations Odd Charges
Odd Man Out Peter's Pence
Prize Money Self-Help
Sentence Deferred Skilled Assistance
The Bequest The Castaway
The Changeling The Changing Numbers
The Dreamer The Guardian Angel
The Head of the Family The Lady of the Barge
The Money-Box The Monkey's Paw
The Old Man of the Sea The Persecution of Bob Pretty
The Test The Third String
The Toll-House The Well
Three at Table Watch-Dogs
 
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M.R. James   (1862-1936)
Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book Casting the Runes 
Count Magnus  Lost Hearts
Number 13 Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You
The Ash-Tree The Mezzotint
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas  
Jerome K. Jerome   (1859-1927)
Clocks Dreams
Evergreens John Ingerfield
Malvina of Brittany Mrs. Korner Sins Her Mercies
Passing of the Third Floor Back Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green
Stage-Land The Cost of Kindness
The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl The Philosopher's Joke
The Soul of Nicolas Snyders
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Sarah Orne Jewett   (1849-1909)
A Country Doctor Deephaven
 
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James Joyce   (1882-1941)
Dubliners
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Franz Kafka  (1883-1924)
A Country Doctor A Hunger Artist
A Report for an Academy An Imperial Message
Before the Law In the Penal Colony
Jackals and Arabs The Great Wall of China
The Hunter Gracchus Up in the Gallery
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Gottfried Keller   (1819-1890)
The Banner of the Upright Seven

Alexander L. Kielland   (1849-1906)
Norse Tales and Sketches Tales of Two Countries
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Rudyard Kipling   (1865-1936)
His Wedded Wife How the Alphabet was Made
How the Camel Got His Hump How the First Letter was Written
How the Leopard Got His Spots How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin
How the Whale Got His Throat In the House of Suddhoo
Man Who Would be King My Own True Ghost Story
Puck of Pook's Hill The Beginning of the Armadillos
The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case The Butterfly that Stamped
The Cat that Walked by Himself The Crab that Played with the Sea
The Elephant's Child The Man Who Was
The Sending of Dana Da The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
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Charles  (1775-1834)  &  Mary Lamb  (1764-1847)
Dream Children — A Reverie (by Charles Lamb) Tales from Shakespeare
 
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Ring Lardner   (1885-1933)
Alibi Ike Harmony
Horseshoes   My Roomy
The Golden Honeymoon
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D.H. Lawrence   (1885-1930)
England, My England & other stories 'Tickets, Please!'
 
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Henry Lawson   (1867-1922)
A Case for the Oracle A Daughter of Maoriland
A Gentleman Sharper and Steelman Sharper An Incident at Stiffner's
Black Joe Mitchell on the "Sex" and Other "Problems"
New Year's Night   Seeing the Last of You
The Darling River The Hero of Redclay
The Master's Mistake The Selector's Daughter 
The Shanty-Keeper's Wife The Story of the Oracle  
They Wait on the Wharf in Black Two Boys at Grinder Brothers'  

Stephen Leacock   (1869-1944)
Further Foolishness Literary Lapses
Moonbeams From the Larger Lunacy Nonsense Novels
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels
  
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Jack London   (1876-1916)
A Curious Fragment   A Daughter of the Aurora
A Day's Lodging A Hyperborean Brew
A Nose for the King A Piece of Steak
A Raid on the Oyster Pirates A Relic of the Pliocene 
A Wicked Woman All Gold Canyon
Aloha Oe   Amateur Night 
An Odyssey of the North At the Rainbow's End
Batard Brown Wolf  
Bunches of Knuckles Charley's Coup
Chun Ah Chun   Created He Them  
Demetrios Contos Flush of Gold
Good-bye, Jack  Grit of Women
In a Far Country   Jack London  
Jan, the Unrepentant   Just Meat
Koolau the Leper Like Argus of the Ancient Times  
Local Color Lost Face  
Love of Life Make Westing
Mauki  Moon-Face
Negore, the Coward On the Makaloa Mat
Planchette Samuel 
Semper Idem Shin-Bones
Shorty Dreams Siwash
South of the Slot That Spot
The Apostate The Benefit of the Doubt
The Bones of Kahekili The Chinago
The Dream of Debs The Enemy of All the World  
The Faith of Men The "Francis Spaight"
The God of His Fathers   The Great Interrogation
The Heathen The House of Mapuhi
The House of Pride The Hussy
The Inevitable White Man The Kanaka Surf  
The King of the Greeks The Leopard Man's Story  
The Madness of John Harned   The Man on the Other Bank
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The Princess The Race for Number One  
The Red One The Scorn of Women
The Sea-Farmer The Seed of McCoy  
The Shadow and the Flash The Sheriff of Kona
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The Story of Keesh The Strength of the Strong  
The Sun-Dog Trail   The Taste of the Meat  
The Tears of Ah Kim The Terrible Solomons
The Unexpected   The Unparalleled Invasion
The Water Baby   The Whale Tooth
The White Man's Way The White Silence
The Wife of a King  The Wisdom of the Trail  
The Wit of Porportuk To Build a Fire
To Kill a Man   To the Man on the Trail
Too Much Gold   Trust  
Under the Deck Awnings War  
When Alice Told Her Soul When God Laughs
When the World Was Young Where the Trail Forks
Which Make Men Remember White and Yellow
Winged Blackmail   "Yah! Yah! Yah!"  
Yellow Handkerchief
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George MacDonald   (1824-1905)
In a Steamer Chair & Other Tales The Golden Key
The Light Princess & Other Fairy Stories The Portent & Other Stories 
 
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Katherine Mansfield   (1888-1923)
An Ideal Family  At the Bay
Bank Holiday Bliss 
Her First Ball Life of Ma Parker 
Marriage a la Mode Miss Brill
Mr and Mrs Dove The Daughters of the Late Colonel 
The Garden Party The Lady's Maid  
The Man Without a Temperament   The Singing Lesson
The Stranger  The Voyage
The Young Girl  
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Guy de Maupassant   (1850-1893)
A Country Excursion A Coup d'Etat
A Coward A Cremation
A Dead Woman's Secret A Duel
A Family A Family Affair
A Father's Confession A Humble Drama
A Meeting A Mother of Monsters
A New Year's Gift   A Normandy Joke
A Parricide A Portrait
A Queer Night in Paris A Recollection
A Sale A Sister's Confession
A Stroll A Tress of Hair
A Vagabond   A Vendetta
A Wedding Gift A Widow 
Abandoned After  
Alexandre All Over
An Artifice An Uncomfortable Bed
At Sea Belhomme's Beast
Bertha Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse  
Boitelle Boule de Suif  
Clair de Lune Clochette
Coco Denis
Discovery Dreams
Farewell  Fascination
Father Matthew Father Milon
Forgiveness Found on a Drowned Man
Friend Joseph Friend Patience 
His Avenger In the Spring
In the Wood Indiscretion
Julie Romaine Lasting Love
Legend of Mont St. Michel Lieutenant Lare's Marriage
Little Louise Roque Madame Baptiste
Madame Hermet Madame Husson's Rosier
Madame Parisse Mademoiselle Cocotte  
Mademoiselle Fifi   Mademoiselle Pearl 
Magnetism Martine
Minuet   Miss Harriet
Misti Moiron
Monsieur Parent Moonlight
Mother and Son Mother Sauvage
My Twenty-Five Days My Uncle Jules  
My Uncle Sosthenes My Wife
Old Amable Old Judas
Old Mongilet On the River  
Our Letters Pierrot
Queen Hortense Regret
Rosalie Prudent Rose  
Saint Anthony   Simon's Papa
Suicides   Sundays of a Bourgeois
That Costly Ride That Pig of a Morin
The Accursed Bread The Adopted Son
The Apparition The Baroness 
The Beggar The Blind Man
The Child The Christening
The Colonel's Ideas The Corsican Bandit
The Cripple   The Devil
The Diamond Necklace The Diary of a Madman
The Dispenser of Holy Water The Donkey  
The Door   The Dowry  
The Drunkard The Effeminates
The Englishman of Etretat The False Gems  
The Farmer's Wife The Father  
The First Snowfall The Fishing Hole
The Gamekeeper The Grave  
The Hand   The Horrible
The Impolite Sex The Inn
The Kiss The Lancer's Wife
The Legion of Honor The Little Cask
The Log The Love of Long Ago
The Magic Couch The Maison Tellier
The Marquis de Fumerol   The Mask
The Model The Moribund
The Mountain Pool The Mustache
The Orphan The Parrot
The Patron The Penguins' Rock
The Piece of String The Prisoners
The Question of Latin The Rabbit 
The Relic The Rondoli Sisters  
The Snipe The Son
The Spasm The Story of a Farm Girl  
"The Terror"  The Test
The Thief  The Trip of the Horla 
The Umbrella The Unknown
The Wardrobe   The Will  
The Wolf The Wreck
The Wrong House Theodule Sabot's Confession  
Timbuctoo   Toine
Tombstones   Two Friends
Two Little Soldiers Useless Beauty
Waiter, a "Bock"   Walter Schnaff's Adventure
Yvette Samoris
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Herman Melville   (1819-1891)
Bartleby, the Scrivener I and My Chimney
The Piazza Tales
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Lucy Maud Montgomery   (1874-1942)
Chronicles of Avonlea Further Chronicles of Avonlea 
 
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Christopher Morley   (1890-1957)
Mince Pie Plum Pudding
Shandygaff
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H.H. Munro [pseud. Saki]   (1870-1916)
A Bread and Butter Miss A Defensive Diamond 
A Holiday Task  A Matter of Sentiment 
A Touch of Realism A Young Turkish Catastrophe
Adrian Bertie's Christmas Eve  
Canossa Cousin Teresa
Clovis on Parental Responsibilities Cross Currents
Down Pens Dusk
Esme Excepting Mrs. Pentherby
Fate Filboid Studge
For the Duration of the War  Forewarned
Fur Gabriel-Ernest
Hermann the Irascible Hyacinth  
Judkin of the Parcels Laura
Louis Louise
Mark  Ministers of Grace  
Morlvera Mrs Packletide's Tiger 
On Approval   Quail Seed
Reginald Reginald at the Carlton
Reginald at the Theatre Reginald in Russia  
Reginald on Besetting Sins Reginald on Christmas Presents
Reginald on House Parties Reginald on Tariffs  
Reginald on the Academy Reginald on Worries 
Reginald's Choir Treat  Reginald's Christmas Revel 
Reginald's Drama  Reginald's Peace Poem
Reginald's Rubaiyat  Shock Tactics
Sredni Vashtar Tea 
The Background The Bag
The Baker's Dozen The Blind Spot 
The Blood Feud of Toad Water The Boar Pig  
The Brogue The Bull
The Byzantine Omelette The Chaplet
The Cobweb   The Cupboard of the Yesterdays
The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh The Dreamer
The Easter Egg  The Elk 
The Feast of Nemesis  The Forbidden Buzzards
The Guests The Hedgehog
The Hen The Hounds of Fate
The Image of the Lost Soul   The Innocence of Reginald
The Interlopers The Jesting of Arlington Stringham
The Lost Sanjak   The Lull 
The Lumber Room The Mappined Life
The Match-Maker The Mouse  
The Music on the Hill  The Name-Day
The Occasional Garden The Open Window
The Oversight  The Peace of Mowsle Barton
The Peace Offering  The Penance
The Phantom Luncheon The Philanthropist and the Happy Cat 
The Purple of the Balkan Kings  The Quest
The Quince Tree  The Recessional
The Remoulding of Groby Lington The Reticence of Lady Anne
The Romancers The Saint and the Goblin
The Schartz-Metterklume Method  The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope
The Seven Cream Jugs The Seventh Pullet
The Sex That Doesn't Shop The She-Wolf 
The Sheep The Soul of Laploshka
The Stake   The Stalled Ox
The Stampeding of Lady Bastable   The Story of St. Vespaluus
The Storyteller  The Strategist  
The Talking-Out of Tarrington  The Threat
The Toys of Peace The Treasure Ship
The Unkindest Blow  The Unrest Cure
The Way to the Dairy The Wolves of Cernogratz
The Yarkand Manner Tobermory
Wratislav
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Edith Nesbit   (1858-1924)
The Bristol Bowl The Mystery of the Semi-Detached
The Power of Darkness
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Frank Norris   (1870-1902)
A Bargain with Peg-Leg A Memorandum of Sudden Death
The Dual Personality of Slick Dick Nickerson The Ghost in the Crosstrees
The Passing of Cock-Eye Blacklock The Riding of Felipe
The Ship That Saw a Ghost The Wife of Chino
Two Hearts That Beat as One
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Kathleen Thompson Norris   (1880-1966)
Austin's Girl   Bridging the Years 
Dr. Bates and Miss Sally Gayley the Troubadour
Making Allowances for Mamma Miss Mix, Kidnapper 
Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby  Rising Water
Rosemary's Stepmother S is for Shiftless Susanna  
Shandon Waters The Gay Deceiver
The Last Carolan The Measure of Margaret Coppered 
The Rainbow's End The Tide Marsh
What Happened to Alanna
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Fitz-James O'Brien   (1828-1862)
What was it? A Mystery
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Baroness Emmuska Orczy   (1865-1947)
Castles in the Air The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
The Man in Grey The Old Man in the Corner
 
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Ouida  [Marie Louise de la Ramée]   (1839-1908)
A Dog of Flanders  
Thomas Nelson Page   (1853-1922)
How the Captain Made Christmas Little Darby
Miss Dangerlie's Roses My Cousin Fanny  
The Burial of the Guns  The Gray Jacket of "No. 4"  

Andrew Barton Paterson   (1864-1941)
Concerning a Dog-fight  Concerning a Steeplechase Rider 
Dan Fitzgerald Explains   His Masterpiece
Sitting in Judgment  The Amateur Gardener 
The Bullock   The Cast-Iron Canvasser 
The Cat The Dog
The Dog — As a Sportsman The Downfall of Mulligan's 
The Merino Sheep The Oracle
Thirsty Island Three Elephant Power
Victor Second White-when-he's-wanted
 
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Elia W. Peattie   (1862-1935)
A Child of the Rain A Grammatical Ghost  
A Lady of Yesterday A Michigan Man
A Mountain Woman A Resuscitation
A Spectral Collie An Astral Onion
From the Loom of the Dead Jim Lancy's Waterloo
On the Northern Ice Story of an Obstinate Corpse
Story of the Vanishing Patient The House That Was Not
The Piano Next Door The Room of the Evil Thought 
The Shape of Fear  The Three Johns
Their Dear Little Ghost Two Pioneers
Up the Gulch    
Edgar Allan Poe   (1809-1849)
A Descent into the Maelstrom A Predicament
A Tale of Jerusalem A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
Berenice Bon-Bon
Diddling Eleonora
Hop-Frog How to Write a Blackwood Article
King Pest  Landor's Cottage  
Ligeia Lionizing
Mesmeric Revelation Metzengerstein  
Morella Mystification
Never Bet the Devil Your Head   Old English Poetry
Philosophy of Furniture Silence — a Fable
Some Words with a Mummy  The Angel of the Odd
The Assignation The Black Cat
The Cask of Amontillado The Devil in the Belfry
The Domain of Arnheim The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Fall of the House of Usher   The Gold-Bug
The Imp of the Perverse The Island of the Fay
The Man of the Crowd The Masque of the Red Death  
The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Oblong Box
The Pit and the Pendulum The Poetic Principle
The Premature Burial   The Purloined Letter
The Spectacles The Sphinx
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether   The Tell-Tale Heart
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade   Thou Art the Man
Three Sundays in a Week Von Kempelen and his Discovery
Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling William Wilson
X-ing a Paragrab
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Eleanor Hodgman Porter   (1868-1920)
Across the Years The Tangled Threads
 
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Melville Davisson Post   (1869-1930)
American Horses Satire of the Sea
The Cambered Foot The Corpus Delicti 
The End of the Road The Fortune Teller  
The Hole in the Mahogany Panel  The House by the Loch
The Last Adventure The Lost Lady 
The Man in the Green Hat  The Pumpkin Coach
The Reward The Spread Rails
The Thing on the Hearth The Wrong Sign
The Yellow Flower  
Beatrix Potter   (1866-1943)
A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes
The Story of Miss Moppet The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes The Tale of Two Bad Mice
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin   (1799-1837)
The Queen of Spades The Shot
The Snowstorm  The Station-Master
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Jacob August Riis   (1849-1914)
Nibsy's Christmas
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Mary Roberts Rinehart   (1876-1958)
Love Stories The Truce of God
 
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Sax Rohmer [Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward]   (1883-1959)
Tales of Chinatown The Devil Doctor
The Mysterious Mummy
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Sir Walter Scott   (1771-1832)
The Tapestried Chamber; or the Lady in the Sacque Wandering Willie’s Tale
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George Bernard Shaw   (1856-1950)
The Miraculous Revenge
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Gertrude Stein   (1874-1946)
Tender Buttons Three Lives
Robert Louis Stevenson   (1850-1894)
Markheim The Sire de Maletroit's Door
Thrawn Janet
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Frank R. Stockton   (1834-1902)
A Piece of Red Calico Captain Eli's Best Ear
His Wife's Deceased Sister Love Before Breakfast
Mr. Tolman My Unwilling Neighbor
My Well and What Came Out of It Our Archery Club
The Buller-Podington Compact The Christmas Wreck
The Griffin and the Minor Canaan The Lady or the Tiger
The Magic Egg The Staying Power of Sir Rohan
The Widow's Cruise  
Bram Stoker   (1847-1912)
Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
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Harriet Beecher Stowe   (1811-1896)
Betty's Bright Idea Oldtown Fireside Stories
 
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