Short stories books

The Wife, and Other Stories

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The volume gathers Anton Chekhov’s short‑story collection The Wife, and Other Stories, a series of Russian…

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories

Mark Twain

The collection opens with a vivid portrait of Hadleyburg, a town that has built its identity on an…

Twelve Stories and a Dream

H. G. Wells

The volume is a collection of twelve short stories by H. G.

Devil Stories: An Anthology

This anthology gathers twenty short tales that explore the figure of the Devil from medieval legend to the…

The old "yaller" shirt

Ray Humphreys

The story is a Western‑flavoured short tale that mixes rodeo action with a dash of romance, set against the…

The Hanging Stranger

Philip K. Dick

The story opens on a weary evening in a small Midwestern town, following Ed Loyce, a forty‑year‑old TV‑shop…

The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers

Saki

The volume gathers the final short stories of Hector Hugh Munro, better known by his pen‑name Saki, whose…

A Set of Six

Joseph Conrad

Stories from Everybody's Magazine

Various

The collection gathers a series of early‑twentieth‑century short stories originally printed in Everybody’s…

Ask a Foolish Question

Robert Sheckley

Robert Sheckley’s Ask a Foolish Question is a collection of speculative short stories that explores the…

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Richard Stallman

The piece is a speculative short story that folds science‑fiction tropes into a near‑future cautionary tale…

The Witch, and Other Stories

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The collection opens with a storm‑riddled night in a remote Russian parish, where the sexton Savely Gykin and…

Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

The volume presents a curated collection of Oscar Wilde’s essays and short stories, assembled with the…

Rolling Stones

O. Henry

The volume titled Rolling Stone collects the final batch of O.

Piper in the Woods

Philip K. Dick

The story opens as a routine military inquiry turns surreal on a newly‑established asteroid outpost.

The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories

P. G. Wodehouse

The volume gathers a series of short, humor‑laden tales by P. G.

Time Enough at Last

Lyn Venable

This story is a science‑fiction short piece that follows Henry Bemis, a teller whose greatest wish is simply…

The Trimmed Lamp, and Other Stories of the Four Million

O. Henry

The volume is a series of short stories set in the bustling streets of turn‑of‑the‑century New York, where…

Just so stories

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kip‑Khan’s Just So Stories is a collection of whimsical animal fables written for children, each…

Four Short Stories By Emile Zola

Émile Zola

Four short stories by Émile Zola open with a bustling scene inside the Théâtre des Variétés, where the empty…

The Stranger

Gordon R. Dickson

The story opens on a remote, unnamed world in the Buckhorn Cluster, where the mining ship Emerald Girl,…

The Great Stone Face, and Other Tales of the White Mountains

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The volume is a collection of short stories set in the White Mountains of New England, where Hawthorne blends…

Flower Fables

Louisa May Alcott

Flower Fables is a whimsical collection of short, fairy‑tale stories that centers on a garden of sentient…

The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories

Willa Cather

The collection opens with a sprawling, richly detailed portrait of a solitary Norwegian homesteader named…