Category Archives: Short Stories
The Lane that had no Turning, and Other Tales concerning the People of Pontiac
Author(s): Gilbert Parker This is a collection of short stories by Gilbert Parker. Parker was...
The Little Gray Lady
Author(s): Francis Hopkinson Smith As every Christmas for the last 20 years, the Little Gray...
The Decameron
Author(s): Giovanni Boccaccio The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by...
The Crocodile
Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky Ivan Matveich, the most ordinary person you might hope to meet, is...
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
Author(s): Various Twenty-four short stories by famous and not-so-famous British authors. (Summary by David Wales)...
The Chronicles of Clovis
Author(s): Saki This is the third collection of short stories by Saki, following on from...
The Blue Review, Number 1
Author(s): Various The Blue Review was a short lived monthly journal published in London between...
The Homely Heroine
Author(s): Edna Ferber Who ever heard of a plain and downright homely heroine? Isn’t a...
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Author(s): Oscar Wilde Collection of children’s stories written in 1888, dealing primarily with love and...
The Best Short Stories of 1917
Author(s): Various I deny that the American short story is at a low ebb, and...
The Blue Review, Number 3
Author(s): Various The Blue Review was a short lived monthly journal published in London between...
The Four Million
Author(s): O. Henry Born in 1862 and died in 1910, O. Henry’s birth name is...
The Conjure Woman
Author(s): Charles Waddell Chesnutt Published in 1899 by Houghton Mifflin, Chesnutt’s first book, The Conjure...
The Black Cat Vol. 05 No. 03 December 1899
Author(s): Various The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories,...
The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains
Author(s): Nathaniel Hawthorne A collection of four short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the common theme...
The Garden Party
Author(s): Katherine Mansfield A collection of short stories on a variety of subjects, by one...
The Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Author(s): Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Originally compiled by Cervantes himself in 1613 as a collection...
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles
Author(s): Herman Melville The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles is a novella by American author Herman...
The Fables of Phaedrus
Author(s): Phaedrus The fable is a small narrative, in prose or verse, which has as...
The Dinner Club
Author(s): Sapper Herman Cyril McNeile, better known as Sapper, was one of England’s most popular...
The Cynical Miss Catherwaight
Author(s): Richard Harding Davis This is the story of Miss Catherwaight, collector of “dishonored honors”...
The Golden Goose Book
Author(s): L. Leslie Brooke A charming little book full of the most gorgeous illustrations which...
The Best Short Stories of 1915
Author(s): Various It seems advisable to undertake a study of the American short story from...
The Day before Yesterday
Author(s): Richard Middleton This is a volume of short stories and essays by Richard Middleton....
The Black Poodle and Other Tales
Author(s): F. Anstey This is a collection of ten humorous short stories (Summary by Carolin)
The Greater Inclination
Author(s): Edith Wharton This is Edith Wharton’s earliest published collection of short stories (1899). Like...
The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches
Author(s): Mark Twain As the title reveals, these stories are a collection of some of...
The Great Small Cat and Others
Author(s): May E. Southworth A collection of seven tales about cats. Caution: Some of these...
The Brushwood Boy
Author(s): Rudyard Kipling The experiences in public school, Sandhurst and military life in India of...
The Dead
Author(s): James Joyce A group of Dubliners gather together for a Christmas celebration in James...