Short Stories

Time Enough at Last

Lyn Venable

This story is a science‑fiction short piece that follows Henry Bemis, a teller whose greatest wish is simply…

After Dark

Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins’s After Dark gathers a series of short tales within a modest framing device: the diary of…

The Trimmed Lamp, and Other Stories of the Four Million

O. Henry

The volume is a series of short stories set in the bustling streets of turn‑of‑the‑century New York, where…

Just so stories

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kip‑Khan’s Just So Stories is a collection of whimsical animal fables written for children, each…

Contos

Fialho de Almeida

Os contos de Fialho de Almeida revelam um retrato vívido da vida marginal de um vilarejo português do século…

Four Short Stories By Emile Zola

Émile Zola

Four short stories by Émile Zola open with a bustling scene inside the Théâtre des Variétés, where the empty…

Father Sergius

Leo Tolstoy

This work is a Russian nineteenth‑century novel that follows the rise and fall of Kasatsky, a brilliant yet…

Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887

Various

Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Volume VIII, No 25 (May 21, 1887) is a nineteenth‑century children’s…

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Stephen Leacock

Stephen Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a collection of short, humor‑laden episodes that…

Short stories from the Balkans

This volume gathers the short fiction of Yaroslav Vrchlický, the prolific Bohemian poet‑translator whose name…

Original Short Stories — Volume 07

Guy de Maupassant

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

Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales

This volume presents a curated selection of Celtic folk‑tales drawn from the rich oral traditions of Ireland,…

Short story classics (Foreign), Vol. 1, Russian

Shadowings

Lafcadio Hearn

The volume is a translation of Japanese folklore and legend, gathered by Lafcadio Hearn under the title…

The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales

Arthur Conan Doyle

The volume is a collection of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle that begins with a detailed journal entry…

Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture

Palmer Cox

Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture is a sprawling collection of Palmer Cox’s comic sketches, verses…

The Great Stone Face, and Other Tales of the White Mountains

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The volume is a collection of short stories set in the White Mountains of New England, where Hawthorne blends…

Flower Fables

Louisa May Alcott

Flower Fables is a whimsical collection of short, fairy‑tale stories that centers on a garden of sentient…

A Tangled Tale

Lewis Carroll

A Tang​led Tale is a collection of mathematical puzzles wrapped in a whimsical narrative, and it opens with a…

Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine

Honoré de Balzac

The work is a collection of short, humorous tales that Balzac published in 1832 under the title Contes…

The New-York Weekly Magazine, or Miscellaneous Repository Forming an Interesting Collection of Original and Select Literary Productions in Prose and Verse

The New‑York Weekly Magazine, or Miscellaneous Repository, is a late‑eighteenth‑century American periodical…

The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories

Willa Cather

The collection opens with a sprawling, richly detailed portrait of a solitary Norwegian homesteader named…

Fairy Tales, Volume 2 (of 2)

This volume collects a second set of fairy tales chosen to complement the stories presented in the first…

Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature

The work opens on a bustling May evening in 1858, when a train conductor’s shout sends Mr.