Short stories books

The Chronicles of Captain Blood is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1931.  Read More >>

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is a novella by novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in the June...  Read More >>

The Cone is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895 in Unicorn. It was intended to be the opening...  Read More >>

The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London. The book's protagonist, Humphrey...  Read More >>

Proceedings of a meeting of the Commission X of the Union internationale des sciences praehistoriques et protohistoriques...  Read More >>

In this chilling short tale from Dracula author Bram Stoker, adolescent troublemakers Harry Merford and Tommy Stanton...  Read More >>

The Canterville Ghost is a short story by Oscar Wilde. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing...  Read More >>

Jack London gained his first and most lasting fame as the author of tales of the Klondike gold rush. This, his first...  Read More >>

This is a nice collection of fairy tales that is sure to please young readers and the adults reading to them alike....  Read More >>

A man is very much like a horse. Once thoroughly frightened by something he meets on the road he will invariably...  Read More >>

Tales of Unrest By Joseph Conrad... Tales of Unrest is a collection of short stories by Joseph Conrad originally...  Read More >>

The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London. The book's protagonist, Humphrey...  Read More >>

South Sea Tales is a collection of stories written by Jack London. Most stories are set in island communities, like...  Read More >>

I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if it were not that I remain as ridiculous...  Read More >>

The finest historical short stories ever written is Conan-Doyle expert Owen Edwards' verdict on the Brigadier Gerard...  Read More >>

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine,...  Read More >>

The Man Who Knew Too Much and other stories (1922) is a book of detective stories by English writer G. K. Chesterton,...  Read More >>

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first...  Read More >>

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first...  Read More >>

Tales of a Traveller by Washington Irving is a compilation of short stories by the great American author. Featuring...  Read More >>

Twelve mysteries featuring Father Brown, the short, stumpy Catholic priest with uncanny insight into human evil....  Read More >>

Two on a Tower, a tale of star crossed love, is considered a minor work of Thomas Hardy. When it was published,...  Read More >>

Based on actual letters Fitzgerald sent to his sister to help her on how to be more attractive for men, Bernice...  Read More >>

One of Thomas Hardy's most powerful works, The Return of the Native centers famously on Egdon Heath, the wild, haunted...  Read More >>

This collection of 20 short 'fables' seems to be an attempt by Stevenson to combine the moral lessons of Aesop's...  Read More >>