Short Stories

Aunt Jo's scrap-bag, Volume 6: An old-fashioned Thanksgiving, etc.

Louisa May Alcott

Aunt Jo’s Scrap‑Bag, Volume 6 is a sprawling, episodic children’s story that opens in the thick of a New…

Great Pirate Stories

This volume is a collection of historic pirate narratives, introduced by a reflective foreword that frames…

Anecdotes of Animals

Unknown

Vecchie storie d'amore

Adolfo Albertazzi

Il volume è una raccolta di racconti brevi in lingua italiana, tutti incentrati su vicende amorose e sul…

Embarrassments

Henry James

The work is a self‑conscious piece of fiction that opens with a narrator recalling a recent commission to…

Bunte Steine: Ein Festgeschenk

Adalbert Stifter

Dieses Werk ist ein Sammelband von Kurzgeschichten, die alle das Thema Steine in den verschiedensten Formen…

The House of Souls

Arthur Machen

Arthur Machen’s “The House of Souls” is a self‑reflective essay that traces the author’s uneasy shift from a…

The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The volume gathers Anton Chekhov’s short fiction, beginning with the story that introduces a “lady with the…

Red Men and White

Owen Wister

Red Men and White is a modestly sized anthology of eight short tales that aim to capture the texture of the…

Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year

E. C. Hartwell

The volume is a teacher‑directed anthology for seventh‑grade readers, assembled by Ernest Clark Hartwell…

Betuwsche novellen, en Een reisgezelschap

Jacobus Jan Cremer

Dit werk is een verzameling korte verhalen die zich afspelen in een Nederlands dorpsgezicht, waarin de…

Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines

Rounsevelle Wildman

The book is a collection of short stories drawn from the author’s nine‑year tenure as a U.S.

The Confessions of Arsène Lupin

Maurice Leblanc

The work is an adventure tale that places the legendary gentleman thief Arsène Lupin at a relatively early…

Nights With Uncle Remus

Joel Chandler Harris

Nights With Uncle Remus is a collection of animal tales told in the voice of the legendary storyteller Uncle…

The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure

Rex Beach

The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure is a collection of short, adventure‑oriented stories by Rex…

The Garden Party, and Other Stories

Katherine Mansfield

The volume gathers Katherine Mansfield’s short stories, a selection that captures the rhythm of…

The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories

The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories is a single‑volume anthology assembled for scoutmasters and other…

The Talking Horse, and Other Tales

F. Anstey

The volume is a collection of short stories by F. Anstey, a 19th‑century English humorist, and it opens with…

Adventures in Many Lands

Various

The volume is a mixed collection of short adventure tales aimed at younger readers, each featuring a daring…

Heads and tales: or, Anecdotes and stories of quadrupeds and other beasts, chiefly connected with incidents in the histories of more or less distinguished men.

The work is a sprawling anthology of animal anecdotes that treats the mammalian order as a series of amusing,…

The Gift of the Magi

O. Henry

The piece is a short Christmas story that follows Della, a young woman living in a modest flat, as she…

The Happy Prince, and Other Tales

Oscar Wilde

The collection gathers Oscar Wilde’s fairy‑tale narratives, beginning with a whimsical yet melancholy episode…

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908

L. M. Montgomery

This volume gathers the short stories Montgomery wrote in 1907‑1908, a prolific period that produced a dozen…

Laboulaye's Fairy Book

Édouard Laboulaye

Laboulaye’s Fairy Book is a collection of French‑origin fairy tales that the author assembled for his own…