Short Stories

Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving

Washington Irving’s tale is a fanciful snapshot of early‑American life, set in the Catskill region of New…

The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories

Guy de Maupassant

The volume opens with a first‑person narrator who, after a year’s hiatus, feels a sudden compulsion to return…

The Olive Fairy Book

The Olive Fairy Book is a collection of Indian‑inspired fairy tales that opens with a vivid, night‑time…

Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The volume gathers Anton Chekhov’s short fiction, translated from Russian into English, and opens with a…

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street

Herman Melville

The work is a mid‑nineteenth‑century novella that frames itself as a memoir of a modest New York…

Cuentos de amor

Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de

Este libro reúne relatos breves que exploran el amor y sus variantes, escritos por la condesa Emilia Pardo…

Daisy Ashford: Her Book

Ashford, Daisy; Ashford, Angela

This volume gathers the remaining short fiction of Daisy Ashford, the child author whose early work “The…

Tales of Space and Time

H. G. Wells

The work is a Victorian‑era science‑fiction tale that begins inside a cramped, dust‑laden curiosity shop on…

Howard Pyle's Book of pirates : fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main

Howard Pyle

Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates is a hybrid of historical essay and adventure narrative, gathering together the…

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922

L. M. Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery’s “Short Stories, 1909 to 1922” gathers a dozen tales written during the middle years of…

Children of the Tenements

Jacob A. Riis

Jacob A. Riis’s Children of the Tenements is a collection of short, reportage‑style stories drawn from his…

Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905

Various

Ainslee’s Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 is a periodical anthology that gathers short stories and poetry from a…

From Place to Place

Irvin S. Cobb

The work is a short‑story collection by Irvin S. Cobb, and it opens with a meticulous portrait of Tobias…

John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein

Frank R. Stockton

Frank R. Stockton’s “John Gayther’s Garden and the Stories Told Therein” is a sprawling, episodic work of…

Fairy Prince and Other Stories

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

The story opens with a bustling Thanksgiving scene in a household that is already dreaming of Christmas.

Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures

Heinrich Hoffmann

Heinrich Hoffmann’s Struwwelpeter is a collection of cautionary verses that open with a parade of misbehaving…

Kleine Dichtungen

Robert Walser

Paul the minstrel, and other stories

Arthur Christopher Benson

Arthur Christopher Benson’s collection gathers short stories that emerged from a “very happy time” in his…

The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories

Guy de Maupassant

The volume gathers Guy de Maupassant’s most celebrated short stories and his first novel, Une Vie, presented…

Short Stories of Various Types

This collection gathers a dozen short pieces selected especially for early‑high‑school readers, each chosen…

Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young

Various

Little Folks, September 1884, is a children’s periodical that opens with a vivid, almost cinematic scene of…

Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day

Americans All is a curated anthology that sets out to map the breadth of American life through the short…

The Peterkin Papers

Lucretia P. Hale

The Peterkin Papers is a collection of light‑hearted family sketches that began as a simple postal‑card idea.

The Book of Stories for the Story-teller

Fanny E. Coe

The Book of Stories for the Story‑teller is a practical anthology assembled by Fanny E.