Short Stories

Hazel Squirrel and Other Stories

Samuel E. Lowe

Hazel Squirrel and Other Stories is a whimsical juvenile tale that follows the adventures of two city…

The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition

Rudyard Kipling

The Eyes Have It

Philip K. Dick

The piece is a short, humor‑laden science‑fiction story that opens with a narrator’s accidental discovery of…

Japanese Fairy Tales

Yei Theodora Ozaki

This volume presents a selection of Japanese fairy tales gathered by Yei Theodora Ozaki and rendered into…

Tales of Two Countries

Alexander Lange Kielland

The work is a modest volume of short stories by Alexander Lange Kielland, first published in 1879, that…

The Apple Dumpling and Other Stories for Young Boys and Girls

Aunt Fanny

The collection presents a series of short, whimsical tales aimed at children, gathered under the affectionate…

Uncanny Tales

Various

Uncanny Tales gathers a selection of short horror stories, each designed to unsettle the reader with a blend…

Holiday Tales: Christmas in the Adirondacks

W. H. H. Murray

Holiday Tales: Christmas in the Adirondacks is a short, rustic vignette that opens on a snow‑covered…

醒世恆言

Menglong Feng

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4

Edgar Allan Poe

The piece is a short‑fiction narrative that opens with a tongue‑in‑cheek “historian’s” preface, in which the…

The Red Fairy Book

The Red Fairy Book is a collection of folk narratives gathered from a variety of European sources, each…

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8

Charles Herbert Sylvester

The work is a narrative of a pirate expedition set in the late seventeenth‑century Caribbean, presented as a…

聊齋志異

Songling Pu

Cane

Jean Toomer

Cane is a modernist work that blends poetry, short story, and drama to portray the lives of African‑American…

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H., and Other Stories

Oscar Wilde

The volume gathers Oscar Wilde’s short stories, beginning with a bustling scene from “Lord Arthur Savile’s…

吶喊

Xun Lu

Child Stories from the Masters Being a Few Modest Interpretations of Some Phases of the Master Works Done in a Child Way

Maud Menefee

Maud Menefee’s Child Stories from the Masters is a modestly‑scaled collection that reshapes celebrated poems…

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X)

The volume gathers a miscellany of American wit, ranging from a rustic verse about a diligent father and his…

The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain

Mark Twain

This volume gathers the complete range of Mark Twain’s published output, organized by the bibliography of…

The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition

Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

The Bet, and other stories

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The volume presents Anton Pavlovich Chekhov’s short‑story collection, opening with a sprawling,…

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers

Bret Harte

The volume gathers Bret Harte’s early Western sketches, condensed novels, and a selection of Spanish‑American…

A laugh a day keeps the doctor away

Irvin S. Cobb

Irvin S. Cobb’s A Laugh a Day Keeps the Doctor Away is a collection of short, anecdotal jokes that he treats…

The Game of Rat and Dragon

Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The piece is a science‑fiction short story that plunges the reader into a future where interstellar travel…