Short Stories

Dracula's Guest

Bram Stoker

Dracula’s Guest is a modest volume of short fiction assembled by Bram Stoker’s widow after his death,…

Grimm's Fairy Stories

Grimm, Jacob; Grimm, Wilhelm

The volume is a compilation of German folk tales collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, and it opens with a…

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

Leo Tolstoy

The volume gathers a selection of Tolstoy’s short fiction, each introduced by a reflective essay on…

Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life

Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio is a collection of linked short stories that together form a loose novel…

Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas

Various

Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas is a collection of juvenile tales set in the American South, drawn…

The Open Boat and Other Stories

Stephen Crane

The volume gathers Stephen Crane’s short‑fiction, a blend of gritty realism and stark naturalism that…

The Story-teller

Maud Lindsay

The Story‑teller is a collection of fairy‑tale‑like narratives aimed at children, framed by a warm domestic…

Short Stories

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The collection presents a series of Russian short stories translated into English, all drawn from Fyodor…

Twice-told tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Twice‑told Tales gathers a series of short stories that plunge the reader into the turbulent world of…

The Jew and Other Stories

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The volume gathers a selection of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev’s short fiction, the most famous of which is the…

Facecies et motz subtilz, d'aucuns excellens esprits et tresnobles seigneurs

Lodovico Domenichi

Ce recueil se présente comme une anthologie d’anecdotes et de bons mots tirés de conversations et de lettres…

二刻拍案惊奇

Mengchu Ling

Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young

Various

Little Folks is a Victorian‑era children’s periodical, and the excerpt opens with a stark, first‑person…

The Queen of Spades, and other stories

Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

The volume brings together Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin’s short fiction, a selection that sits alongside his…

The eternal moment, and other stories

E. M. Forster

The volume gathers a handful of early‑twentieth‑century short pieces by E. M.

Studying the short-story Sixteen short-story classics with introductions, notes and a new laboratory study method for individual reading and use in colleges and schools.

The work is a scholarly anthology that gathers sixteen short‑story classics, each accompanied by a detailed…

Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 1 (of 6)

Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights, Volume 1, is a sprawling anthology that…

Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories

Sarah S. Baker

The work is a collection of juvenile fiction centered on the adventures of a determined little Swedish girl…

Short story classics (Foreign), Vol. 5, French II

The volume gathers French short stories rendered into English, and it opens with a stark, night‑time vignette…

The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2

Young, Ella Flagg; Field, Walter Taylor

The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2 is a classroom‑style anthology that mixes familiar verse with a…

The Red Room

H. G. Wells

The piece is a short‑story by H. G. Wells that begins in a dimly lit, ancient house where three decrepit…

Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens

Margaret W. Eggleston

Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens is a collection of short, didactic tales aimed at adolescent girls,…

El libro de las tierras vírgenes

Rudyard Kipling

El libro de las tierras vírgenes reúne en un solo volumen las dos colecciones que originalmente se publicaron…

Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young

Various

Little Folks is a nineteenth‑century children’s periodical that presents a serialized story of a mother’s…