Short Stories

FreeChildrenStories.com Collection

Daniel Errico

The collection gathers a lively assortment of children’s poems and short stories, each introduced by a bold,…

Nonsense Novels

Stephen Leacock

Stephen Leacock’s Nonsense Novels offers a parody of detective fiction that begins with a chaotic tableau of…

The Grey Woman and other Tales

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The volume is a collection of short stories by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, set in nineteenth‑century England…

Reprinted Pieces

Charles Dickens

The volume is a miscellany of short narratives and essays assembled under the heading “Reprinted Pieces,” all…

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

This volume gathers eight of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s most celebrated short tales, each a self‑contained…

Amy Foster

Joseph Conrad

The novel opens with a richly detailed portrait of a coastal English countryside, where the country doctor…

Tales from Dickens

Rives, Hallie Erminie; Dickens, Charles

Tales from Dickens gathers a series of Hallie Erminie Rives’s adaptations of Charles Dickens’s most…

England, My England

D. H. Lawrence

The work is a short‑story collection that immerses the reader in an English countryside of the early…

The Lady, or the Tiger?

Frank R. Stockton

Frank R. Stockton’s “The Lady, or the Tiger?” is a short story that blends psychological intrigue with a…

Moon-Face, and Other Stories

Jack London

Jack London’s Moon‑Face, and Other Stories gathers a handful of his early short fiction, beginning with a…

World Stories Retold for Modern Boys and Girls One Hundred and Eighty-seven Five-minute Classic Stories for Retelling in Home, Sunday School, Children's Services, Public School Grades and "The Story-hour" in Public Libraries

William James Sly

This volume is a practical handbook for anyone who wants to bring the world’s best tales into the home or…

Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series

Antin, Mary; Ashe, Elizabeth; Carman, Kathleen; Comer, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt); De la Roche, Mazo; Donnell, Annie Hamilton; Dunning, James Edmund; Eastman, Rebecca Hooper; Ganoe, William Addleman; Huffaker, Lucy; Husband, Joseph; Kemper, S. H.; Krysto, Christina; Mackubin, Ellen; Mirrielees, Edith Ronald; Montague, Margaret Prescott; Morlae, Edward; Nicholson, Meredith; Norris, Kathleen Thompson; Portor, Laura Spencer; Pratt, Lucy; Singmaster, Elsie; Townsend, Charles Haskins; Wyatt, Edith

Atlantic Narratives II is a curated collection of twenty‑three short stories drawn from the pages of the…

The Prussian Officer

D. H. Lawrence

The story opens on a sweltering march through a sun‑baked valley, the regiment threading a narrow road…

The Book of Wonder

Lord Dunsany

The Book of Wonder is a sprawling fantasy tale by Lord Dunsany that begins with an ancient centaur,…

Weird Tales. Vol. 1 (of 2)

E. T. A. Hoffmann

The work is a whimsical episode drawn from E. T. A. Hoffmann’s collection of strange German tales, translated…

Villa Rubein, and Other Stories

John Galsworthy

Villa Rubein, and Other Stories is a modestly sized collection of short fiction by John Galsworthy, first…

The Doves' Nest, and Other Stories

Katherine Mansfield

The volume gathers every complete story and a selection of fragments that Katherine Mansfield wrote after the…

Europa's Fairy Book

Joseph Jacobs

Joseph Jacobs’s Europa’s Fairy Book is a collection that gathers the most widely‑known folk‑tales from across…

Shandygaff A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to the Reader

Christopher Morley

The work is a self‑conscious collection of essays, sketches and short stories that Christopher Morley…

Tales From Jókai

Mór Jókai

Tales From Jókai is a collection of short stories drawn from the prolific Hungarian novelist Mór Jókai…

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921

The volume is a curated anthology of the O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories for 1921, assembled by the…

Cuentos populares en Chile

Ramón A. Laval

Este libro es una recopilación de cuentos populares chilenos, editada por Ramón A.

Astounding Stories, July, 1931

Various

Astounding Stories, July 1931, is a pulp‑era science‑fiction magazine that opens with Jack Williamson’s short…

Further Chronicles of Avonlea

L. M. Montgomery

Further Chronicles of Avonlea gathers fifteen short stories that extend L. M.