Short stories books

How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s “How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays” is a collection of observations on the craft of…

The King of the Golden River

John Ruskin

John Ruskin’s “The King of the Golden River” is a short, didactic fairy tale that begins in a lush,…

Lost Face

Jack London

Jack London’s “Lost Face” is a sprawling adventure tale that plunges the reader into the brutal frontier of…

The Beckoning Hand, and Other Stories

Grant Allen

The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction that blends horror, suspense, and…

Europe and elsewhere

Mark Twain

The work is a sweeping essay that surveys Mark Twain’s evolution from a Mississippi‑river pilot and…

The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter

The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter gathers together a series of short, animal‑centric tales that were…

Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II

Rudyard Kipling

The volume gathers the poems and short stories that have become part of the literary heritage of Rudyard…

Viking Tales

Jennie Hall

The book is a collection of short stories that re‑imagine Viking sagas, beginning with a vivid portrait of…

A Pail of Air

Fritz Leiber

A short‑story collection by Fritz Leiber, A Pail of Air places its first tale in a frozen, sunless world…

The Big Trip Up Yonder

Kurt Vonnegut

The piece is a science‑fiction short story that opens in a cramped, over‑populated future apartment where a…

The Grey Woman and other Tales

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The volume is a collection of short stories by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, set in nineteenth‑century England…

Reprinted Pieces

Charles Dickens

The volume is a miscellany of short narratives and essays assembled under the heading “Reprinted Pieces,” all…

The Lady, or the Tiger?

Frank R. Stockton

Frank R. Stockton’s “The Lady, or the Tiger?” is a short story that blends psychological intrigue with a…

Moon-Face, and Other Stories

Jack London

Jack London’s Moon‑Face, and Other Stories gathers a handful of his early short fiction, beginning with a…

Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series

Antin, Mary; Ashe, Elizabeth; Carman, Kathleen; Comer, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt); De la Roche, Mazo; Donnell, Annie Hamilton; Dunning, James Edmund; Eastman, Rebecca Hooper; Ganoe, William Addleman; Huffaker, Lucy; Husband, Joseph; Kemper, S. H.; Krysto, Christina; Mackubin, Ellen; Mirrielees, Edith Ronald; Montague, Margaret Prescott; Morlae, Edward; Nicholson, Meredith; Norris, Kathleen Thompson; Portor, Laura Spencer; Pratt, Lucy; Singmaster, Elsie; Townsend, Charles Haskins; Wyatt, Edith

Atlantic Narratives II is a curated collection of twenty‑three short stories drawn from the pages of the…

The Prussian Officer

D. H. Lawrence

The story opens on a sweltering march through a sun‑baked valley, the regiment threading a narrow road…

Lay Morals, and Other Papers

Robert Louis Stevenson

Lay Morals, and Other Papers gathers a series of essays and short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, offering…

Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home

Bayard Taylor

Taylor Bayard’s collection, “Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home,” offers a series of short stories set…

Villa Rubein, and Other Stories

John Galsworthy

Villa Rubein, and Other Stories is a modestly sized collection of short fiction by John Galsworthy, first…

Shandygaff A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to the Reader

Christopher Morley

The work is a self‑conscious collection of essays, sketches and short stories that Christopher Morley…

Tales From Jókai

Mór Jókai

Tales From Jókai is a collection of short stories drawn from the prolific Hungarian novelist Mór Jókai…

Household Papers and Stories

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Household Papers and Stories gathers a series of essays, sketches, and short…

Micro-Man

Forrest J. Ackerman

The story opens with a narrator whose idle thoughts on Plato give way to a startling observation on a…

The Descent of Man and Other Stories

Edith Wharton

The collection opens with a long, self‑reflective sketch of Professor Linyard, a middle‑aged academic…