Manners and customs -- Fiction books

Tongues of Conscience

Robert Hichens

Tongues of Conscience is a work of fiction that dwells on the contrast between night and day, using the…

The Green Dolphin

Sara Ware Bassett

The Green Dolphin is a domestic comedy set in a New England harbor town, where the solitary Asaph Holmes, a…

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H., and Other Stories

Oscar Wilde

The volume gathers Oscar Wilde’s short stories, beginning with a bustling scene from “Lord Arthur Savile’s…

The Piazza Tales

Herman Melville

The work is a short‑story collection by Herman Melville that opens with a rambling, almost lyrical sketch of…

Zadig; Or, The Book of Fate

Voltaire

An International Episode

Henry James

The Day's Work

Rudyard Kipling

Historical Miniatures

August Strindberg

Where the Pavement Ends

John Russell

The Death of the Lion

Henry James

The Open Door, and the Portrait. Stories of the Seen and the Unseen.

Mrs. Oliphant

Cheerful—By Request

Edna Ferber

Ten minute stories

Algernon Blackwood

Tales of All Countries

Anthony Trollope

The Lion and the Unicorn

Richard Harding Davis

The Ghost Ship

Richard Middleton

The Unbearable Bassington

Saki

By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories

Louis Becke

Dolly Dialogues

Anthony Hope

Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green

Jerome K. Jerome

Samantha at Saratoga

Marietta Holley

Questionable Shapes

William Dean Howells

Blix

Frank Norris

Rosa Mundi and Other Stories

Ethel M. Dell