Short Stories

The Eyes of Asia

Rudyard Kipling

The work is a first‑hand account from a veteran of the Great War, written by a former Indian soldier who…

Can Such Things Be?

Ambrose Bierce

The work is a short‑story collection by Ambrose Bier Bierce that opens with a dense, almost sermon‑like…

Novelas Cortas

Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

The volume is a pedagogical anthology of short Spanish narratives, each accompanied by exhaustive notes, an…

Bliss, and other stories

Katherine Mansfield

The volume is a collection of short stories by Katherine Mansfield, set in the everyday world of New Zealand…

The schoolmistress, and other stories

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The volume gathers Anton Chekhov’s short stories, and it begins with a vivid, almost cinematic sketch of a…

The Piazza Tales

Herman Melville

The work is a short‑story collection by Herman Melville that opens with a rambling, almost lyrical sketch of…

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5

Edgar Allan Poe

This volume gathers a series of Edgar Allan Poe’s longer nonfiction pieces, and it opens with a sprawling,…

Der Hahn von Quakenbrück und andere Novellen

Ricarda Huch

Der Band „Der Hahn von Quakenbrück und andere Novellen“ von Ricarda Huch ist eine Sammlung kurzweiliger, aber…

Grimm's Fairy Tales

Grimm, Jacob; Grimm, Wilhelm

Grimm’s Fairy Tales gathers the German folk narratives that Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected from the…

Monday or Tuesday

Virginia Woolf

The work is a fragmentary, experimental narrative that blends a dream‑like interior monologue with a loosely…

Jewish children

Sholem Aleichem

The work is a short, lyrical vignette that captures a day in the life of two Jewish youths on the eve of…

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of O. Henry

O. Henry

Three Ghost Stories

Charles Dickens

The work is a Victorian‑era ghost story by Charles Dickens, presented as a single, self‑contained narrative…

The Man Who Would Be King

Rudyard Kipling

The story is a political adventure set in the British‑Indian frontier, where the narrator, a weary civil…

Modern Essays and Stories A book to awaken appreciation of modern prose, and to develop ability and originality in writing

This volume is a practical guide that pairs short, modern essays with a selection of short stories, all aimed…

The Four Million

O. Henry

The Four Million is a slice‑of‑life narrative set in turn‑of‑the‑century New York, catalogued as short‑story…

The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories

Rabindranath Tagore

The volume is a collection of short stories by Rabindranath Tagore, translated into English by a team that…

The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook

Theodore Edward Hook

Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading

Frances Jenkins Olcott

Good Stories for Great Holidays is a curated anthology designed for both children’s independent reading and…

Roads of Destiny

O. Henry

Roads of Destiny is a short‑story collection set in a nineteenth‑century French‑influenced world, though its…

Korean folk tales: Imps, ghosts and fairies

Im, Pang; Yi, Yuk

This volume presents a single, richly detailed Korean folk narrative that intertwines love, duty, and social…

The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories

H. G. Wells

The collection gathers H. G. Wells’s short fiction, ranging from speculative science‑fiction to whimsical…

Stories from the Pentamerone

Giambattista Basile

Stories from the Pentamerone gathers together Giambattista Basile’s early‑modern Italian folktales, a…

The Mummy's Foot

Théophile Gautier

The story opens in a cluttered antiquarian shop where the narrator, a collector of curios, is led through a…