Short Stories

The Inimitable Jeeves

P. G. Wodehouse

The Inimitable Jeeves is a collection of witty, light‑hearted tales that centre on the idle aristocrat Bertie…

The Second Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

The Second Jungle Book continues Rudyard Kipling’s Indian jungle saga, focusing on the harsh drought that…

The Conjure Woman

Charles W. Chesnutt

The work is a Southern‑state narrative that blends domestic travel with a folk‑tale about a haunted vineyard.

Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1

Contes Français

Ce volume rassemble une série de nouvelles françaises, chacune présentée comme un exercice de lecture et de…

Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People

Rudyard Kipling

The work is a collection of short stories set against the backdrop of British‑occupied India, drawing on the…

Beasts and Super-Beasts

Saki

The volume gathers Saki’s witty, short‑form tales that blend everyday society with a thin veil of the…

A Dog's Tale

Mark Twain

The work is a whimsical animal‑narrated fiction that opens with a self‑deprecating canine narrator declaring…

Love of Life, and Other Stories

Jack London

Love of Life, and Other Stories is a Jack London collection that plunges the reader straight into the bleak,…

Tales and Stories Now First Collected

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The volume gathers Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s short fiction, a set of tales originally printed in…

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Songling Pu

Selected Stories of Bret Harte

Bret Harte

Selected Stories of Bret Harte gathers the author’s most celebrated Western short fiction, a genre he helped…

The forged coupon, and other stories

Leo Tolstoy

The volume gathers a selection of Leo Tol‑Tolstoy’s short fiction, presented in English translation, and…

Short stories from Life: The 81 prize stories in "Life's" Shortest Story Contest

East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North

Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen; Moe, Jørgen Engebretsen

This volume is a collection of Norwegian folk‑tales gathered by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen…

The best short stories of 1915, and the yearbook of the American short story

This volume is a curated year‑book of American short fiction, gathering together the most distinguished…

Fables de La Fontaine

Jean de La Fontaine

Ce volume est une collection de fables que Jean de La Fontaine présente comme des adaptations des récits…

Stories from Hans Andersen

H. C. Andersen

This volume gathers a selection of Hans Christian Andersen’s short, fairy‑tale narratives, beginning with a…

Short Stories for High Schools

This volume presents a purpose‑driven anthology of short stories aimed at the high‑school classroom.

Short-story masterpieces, Vol. 1: French

The volume gathers ten French short‑stories, presented here with an introductory essay that treats the form…

Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street

Virginia Woolf

The work is a fragmentary, stream‑of‑consciousness sketch set in early‑twentieth‑century London,…

續子不語

Mei Yuan

Popular Tales

Charles Perrault

This volume presents Charles Perrault’s French fairy‑tale collection, first issued in Paris in 1697.

Wild Animals I Have Known

Ernest Thompson Seton

The book is a collection of true‑to‑life sketches of individual animals, each presented as a miniature…