Short Stories

The book of Scottish story: historical, humorous, legendary, and imaginative, selected from the works of standard Scottish authors

Various

The volume gathers a broad sampling of nineteenth‑century Scottish short fiction, presenting stories that…

Australian fairy tales

Atha Westbury

Australian Fairy Tales by Atha Westbury is a collection of imaginative narratives set against the backdrop of…

Tales of the Samurai Stories Illustrating Bushido, the Moral Principles of the Japanese Knighthood

Asataro Miyamori

Tales of the Samurai presents a collection of short stories that illustrate the moral code of the Japanese…

The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents

H. G. Wells

The volume is a collection of short, speculative tales by H. G.

The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (November 1912) Vol. LXXXV: New Series Vol. LXIII, November 1912 to April 1913

The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, November 1912, opens the volume with a single short story titled…

Plain Tales from the Hills

Rudyard Kipling

Plain Tales from the Hills gathers Rudyard Kip‑Khan’s early short‑fiction set against the backdrop of…

O. Henry Memorial Award prize stories of 1927

The volume is a curated anthology of the O. Henry Memorial Award prize stories for the year October 1926…

Novelas ejemplares

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Este libro es una colección de doce relatos breves que Cervantes presenta bajo el título de Novelas…

A Pail of Air

Fritz Leiber

A short‑story collection by Fritz Leiber, A Pail of Air places its first tale in a frozen, sunless world…

Thirty Strange Stories

H. G. Wells

Thirty strange stories gathers together a handful of H. G.

Astounding Stories, March, 1931

Various

Astounding Stories, March 1931 is a pulp‑era science‑fiction magazine, printed by the Readers’ Guild in New…

Bentley's Miscellany, Volume II

Various

The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

The Kipling Reader gathers a selection of short stories, poems and sketches by Rudyard Kip‑Kipling, and the…

The humour of Russia

The work presents a scholarly survey of Russian comic literature, opening with an essay that argues humor is…

The humour of Italy

The book opens with a scholarly defence of Italian humour, countering the claim that it died with Ariosto.

The Big Trip Up Yonder

Kurt Vonnegut

The piece is a science‑fiction short story that opens in a cramped, over‑populated future apartment where a…

Scenes of Clerical Life

George Eliot

Scenes of Clerical Life is a modestly sized collection of three short narratives that sketch the everyday…

Weird Tales, Vol. 2 (of 2)

E. T. A. Hoffmann

We begin in a bustling 19th‑century Berlin art salon, where a painted tableau of a richly attired Doge and…

La novellaja fiorentina Fiabe e novelline stenografate in Firenze dal dettato popolare

Vittorio Imbriani

Il volume è una raccolta di fiabe e novelle popolari fiorentine, trascritte fedelmente dal dettato della…

The Crushed Flower, and Other Stories

Leonid Andreyev

The collection opens with a sprawling, lyrical portrait of a six‑year‑old boy named Yura, whose perception…

The humour of Spain.

Children's Hour with Red Riding Hood and Other Stories

The volume opens with a tangled court intrigue in which a princess is forced to exchange her royal garments…

Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848

Various

The Green Fairy Book

The Green Fairy Book is the third and, as its editor suggests, likely final volume in a series of…