Short stories books

Vladimir Petrovich Voldemar, a 16-year-old, is staying in the country with his family and meets Zinaida Alexandrovna...  Read More >>

There is a certain malady of the mind induced by too much of one thing. Just as the body fed too long upon meat...  Read More >>

The Happy Prince and Other Tales (sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is a collection of stories...  Read More >>

Ten stories of Macabre Mystery by the creator of the famous Dr. Fu Manchu. Includes the excellent ghost story Tcheriapin...  Read More >>

A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published in 1891 as a...  Read More >>

This is a title in an inexpensive range of classics in the Penguin Popular Classics series.  Read More >>

Presents observations of the British in India. This book contains a selection of tales.  Read More >>

A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published in 1891.The stories...  Read More >>

The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving...  Read More >>

Excerpt: ...Andy, still tacitly their leader, rode a few steps forward. That'll be all today, he announced politely....  Read More >>

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

Excerpt: ...Andy, still tacitly their leader, rode a few steps forward. That'll be all today, he announced politely....  Read More >>

A realistic story of the plains, describing a party of Easterners who exchange a cottage at Newport for the rough...  Read More >>

A realistic story of the plains, describing a party of Easterners who exchange a cottage at Newport for the rough...  Read More >>

Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894.In the story Tom Huck and Jim travel to Africa in a...  Read More >>

Exasperated that his stern and overbearing father refuses to tolerate his penchant for alcohol, John Nicholson decides...  Read More >>

The Death of the Lion is an 1894 short story by Henry James. (The narrator suggests writing an article on Neil...  Read More >>

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his children's...  Read More >>

Here is an alternate reality from the man who gave the world The Jungle Book, Gunga Din and The Phantom Rickshaw....  Read More >>

The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving...  Read More >>

The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which...  Read More >>

Casey Ryan from B. M. Bower. American author (1871-1940).  Read More >>

The Yellow Fairy Book is the sixth in the series of Fairy Books by Andrew Lang. With 48 stories, including; Thumbelina,...  Read More >>

The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each spectral...  Read More >>

Adam Bede was the first novel by Mary Ann Evans, and was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even...  Read More >>