Short Stories

True Stories of Wonderful Deeds Pictures and Stories for Little Folk

Anonymous

The Goody-Naughty Book

Sarah Cory Rippey

The Goody‑Naughty Book is a collection of short children’s tales printed in 1913 by Rand McNally, illustrated…

Modern Short Stories: A Book for High Schools

This volume is a deliberately assembled anthology of contemporary short fiction intended for secondary‑school…

Das Urteil: Eine Geschichte

Franz Kafka

Das Werk ist ein kurzer Prosatext, in dem der junge Kaufmann Georg Bendemann an einem lauen Sonntagmorgen in…

Betrachtung

Franz Kafka

Der Text ist eine kurze Erzählung von Franz Kafka, die in einer ländlichen Sommerlandschaft beginnt.

Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I

Various

Bentley’s Miscellany, Volume I is a Victorian‑era compendium of prose, poetry and satire assembled by the…

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901

L. M. Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery’s early short‑story collection gathers works first published between 1896 and 1901,…

The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The work is a self‑styled collection of “exemplary” tales, first issued in 1613, three years before…

Mrs. Spring Fragrance

Sui Sin Far

Mrs. Spring Fragrance is a collection of short stories that centers on Chinese‑American life in the Pacific…

Flappers and Philosophers

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Flappers and Philosophers is a short‑story collection by F.

The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories

Mark Twain

The volume gathers a series of Mark Twain’s short, humor‑laden sketches of American life, and it opens in the…

A collection of short-stories

This volume serves as a scholarly guide to the short‑story, opening with a concise statement of the form’s…

Men without women

Ernest Hemingway

The work is a short‑story collection by Ernest Hemingway, presented here as a single, continuous narrative…

Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

Charles Dickens

The work is a series of vivid sketches that turn the ordinary streets and institutions of nineteenth‑century…

A Selection from the Writings of Guy De Maupassant, Vol. I

Guy de Maupassant

This volume gathers a selection of Guy de Maupassant’s short fiction, translated from French into English,…

Famous Modern Ghost Stories

The volume gathers a selection of modern ghost stories, each illustrating how the specter has evolved from a…

Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm

Grimm, Jacob; Grimm, Wilhelm

In Bad Company, and other stories

Rolf Boldrewood

The volume is a series of Australian sketches that centre on the everyday lives of bush settlers, beginning…

Original Short Stories — Volume 04

Guy de Maupassant

This volume gathers a selection of Guy de Maupassant’s short stories, translated from French into English.

Taras Bulba, and Other Tales

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

The volume gathers Nikolai Vasil’evich Gogol’s short stories, the most famous of which is the eponymous…

My man Jeeves

P. G. Wodehouse

The work is a collection of light‑hearted, English‑centric tales that revolve around the inimitable valet…

Jungle Tales of Tarzan

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The story opens in the dense, sweltering heart of an African jungle, where Tarzan, a boy‑raised ape, is…

International Short Stories: French

The volume gathers a series of French short stories translated into English, each offering a vivid glimpse…

Tales of the Jazz Age

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of short stories by F.