Short Stories

The Book of Dragons

E. Nesbit

The work is a whimsical short‑story collection aimed at children, centering on the absurd adventures of a…

Stories to Read or Tell from Fairy Tales and Folklore

This volume gathers a selection of folk narratives and fairy‑tale motifs that were traditionally told aloud…

The book of one syllable

Esther Bakewell

Esther Bakewell’s The Book of One Syllable is a collection of short juvenile tales written entirely with…

The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

The piece is a gothic horror tale set against a deadly plague that has ravaged the nation, described in…

Den ljusa skalpen: Nya präriehistorier

Sigge Strömberg

Den här samlingen av korta västerhistorier presenterar den unge krigaren Blå Molnet, en respekterad men…

The Canterville Ghost

Oscar Wilde

The story is a comic tale of a haunted English manor bought by an outspoken American diplomat, Mr. Hiram B.

The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country

Elma Ehrlich Levinger

The New Land is a collection of historically flavored narratives that trace the contributions of Jewish…

The best short stories of 1922, and the yearbook of the American short story

The volume is a curated anthology of American short fiction published between October 1921 and September…

The Old Stone House and Other Stories

Anna Katharine Green

The collection opens with a vivid, first‑person wander through a forgotten stone house deep in a New York…

Fables in Slang

George Ade

George Ade’s Fables in Slang is a mischievous collection that blends the traditional moral tale with the…

Rootabaga Stories

Carl Sandburg

Rootabaga Stories is a whimsical collection of American fairy‑tale sketches that begins with the odd,…

Ehstnische Märchen. Zweite Hälfte

Dieses Werk ist die zweite Hälfte einer zweisprachigen Sammlung estnischer Volksmärchen, die 1866 von Dr.

The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. 3 (of 5)

Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

The Tales of the Heptameron, Volume 3, continues Margaret of Navarre’s series of French love stories rendered…

Novelle lombarde

Avancinio Avancini

Le “Novelle lombarde” di Avancinio Avancini sono una raccolta di racconti brevi che dipingono la vita rurale…

Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories

Ralph Adams Cram

Ralph Adams Cram’s Black Spirits and White is a collection of ghost stories that begins with a tangled…

Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888

Various

The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories

Joaquin Miller

The work is a 19th‑century American tale of frontier life, set among the gold‑seeking families of the Sierra…

The best short stories of 1918, and the yearbook of the American short story

The volume is a scholarly anthology that gathers what its editor, Edward J.

The best short stories of 1921, and the yearbook of the American short story

This volume assembles what its editor deems the most vital short fiction published in American periodicals…

子不語

Mei Yuan

Stories from Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

The volume gathers a selection of Rabindranath Tagore’s short stories, originally written in Bengali and…

Tradiciones peruanas

Ricardo Palma

El libro es una recopilación de leyendas y crónicas peruanas que combina relatos históricos con tradiciones…

Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)

Woolson, Constance Fenimore; Bunner, H. C. (Henry Cuyler); De Forest, John William; Foote, Mary Hallock; Willis, Nathaniel Parker

The volume opens with a self‑conscious narrator who, fresh from a literary triumph and a comfortable life in…

Oldtown Fireside Stories

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Oldtown Fireside Stories is a slice‑of‑19th‑century New England fiction that gathers the oral traditions of a…