Short stories books

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 >>

Mosses from an Old Manse is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846. The collection...  Read More >>

Plague Holocaust Classic! Before the swine flu was in the news, plague, diphtheria, cholera, etc were one of the...  Read More >>

The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888....  Read More >>

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is a 1902 children's book, written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary...  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 Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving...  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 Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London...  Read More >>

Silas Marner is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver,...  Read More >>

The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has...  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 >>

The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written...  Read More >>

Joseph Conrad's Falk (1903) is a sea stories about the author's experiences in the East. Set in Bangkok, this story...  Read More >>

The mind fed too long upon monotony succumbs to the insidious mental ailment which the West calls 'cabin fever.'...  Read More >>

Two on a Tower: A Romance (1882) is a novel by English author Thomas Hardy, [1] classified by him as a romance and...  Read More >>

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

The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906) is a collection of thirty comic short stories by the American humorist...  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 >>

A collection of 15 fantasy short stories, similar to the Arabian Nights , set in Chicago.  Read More >>

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

Mosses from an Old Manse is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846. The collection...  Read More >>

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

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

First published in 1856, five years after the appearance of Moby Dick, this book comprises six of Melville's finest...  Read More >>