Short stories, English books

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

M. R. James

M. R. James’s Ghost Stories of an Antiquary gathers together a handful of his celebrated English horror…

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 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…

The mysterious Mr. Quin

Agatha Christie

The story opens in a winter‑time country house where a small, eclectic group of guests has gathered for New…

The Happy Prince, and Other Tales

Oscar Wilde

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

The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago

Arthur Conan Doyle

The volume gathers a series of short adventure and historical tales by Arthur Conan Doyle, and it opens with…

The best British short stories of 1922

The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy

Mary Cholmondeley

The eternal moment, and other stories

E. M. Forster

The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition

Rudyard Kipling

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

Oscar Wilde

Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People

Rudyard Kipling

Beasts and Super-Beasts

Saki

Tales and Stories Now First Collected

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street

Virginia Woolf

A House of Pomegranates

Oscar Wilde

Rewards and Fairies

Rudyard Kipling

The Happy Prince, and Other Tales

Oscar Wilde

The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4

Charles Lamb

After Dark

Wilkie Collins

The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales

Arthur Conan Doyle

Indian Tales

Rudyard Kipling

The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents

H. G. Wells

Plain Tales from the Hills

Rudyard Kipling