Short stories books

Beasts and Super-Beasts is a collection of short stories, written by Saki (theLiterarypseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro)...  Read More >>

In the story, a student arrives in a small town looking for a quiet place to stay while preparing for his examination....  Read More >>

The Machine Stops is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication...  Read More >>

Bartleby, the Scrivener is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in...  Read More >>

The Touchstone is a novel, written by Edith Wharton in 1905; it was the first of her many stories describing life...  Read More >>

The Trial For Murder, written in 1865, is a short story by Charles Dickens. It is one of Dickens' ghost stories,...  Read More >>

The Ladybird is a long tale or novella by D. H. Lawrence.It was first drafted in 1915 as a short story entitled...  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 >>

Dr Fu-Manchu is back once again! His very existence seemingly proves him immune from natural laws, a deathless incarnation...  Read More >>

In these short stories, never previously published together, Mrs Gaskell (1810-1865) unleashes her fascination with...  Read More >>

A Dream of Armageddon is a short story by H. G. Wells which was first published in 1901 in the British weekly magazine...  Read More >>

The Machine Stops is a Science Fiction-General short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication...  Read More >>

Among the many fatalities attending the bloom of young desire, that of blindly taking to the confectionery line...  Read More >>

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

A Princess of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Barsoom...  Read More >>

A young, wealthy vagabond English man, Calladine, whom Ricardo knew before, hastily comes to Ricardo's London home...  Read More >>

In these short stories, never previously published together, Mrs Gaskell (1810-1865) unleashes her fascination with...  Read More >>

David Marsh (Bowers), an inventor, is in love with Ann Hardy (Novak), but his brother Lewis also loves her. Lewis...  Read More >>

The Machine Stops is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication...  Read More >>

Walden by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings....  Read More >>

Walden by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings....  Read More >>

The transitory mental aberration of Sidney Davidson, remarkable enough in itself, is still more remarkable if Wade's...  Read More >>

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books...  Read More >>

The Machine Stops is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication...  Read More >>

Out of Time's Abyss is a direct sequel to The Land That Time Forgot and The People That Time Forgot, continuing...  Read More >>