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<b>Short Stories</b> <i>updated 10/27/2007</i>
Short Stories updated 10/27/2007
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From Poe to O. Henry to Ambrose Bierce to Chekhov to Maupassant, this CD contains the full text of 3901 stories including collections of interwoven stories such as The Arabian Nights, The Canterbury Tales, The Decameron, and Winesburg Ohio.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), these books are in plain-text format, organized for easy access.

Excerpt from review by Rochelle Caviness in Large Print Reviews: "... Richard Seltzer has compiled a fantastic selection of short stories. This collection features a cross section of short stories from around the world...The short stories in this collection offer readers a unique opportunity to compare the various techniques used in crafting a masterful short story, and to experience how this literary form differs form country to country... The works contained in this collection are all works currently in the public domain... By default, this is a collection of classic short stories. These are the stories that you will most often be required to read in high school and college, because they are stories that have withstood the test of time and have emerged as stellar examples of the literary form...This is a collection that will delight readers of every ilk, with short stories that run the gamut from westerns to stories about love and faith." The complete review

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Table of Contents:

Anthologies

  • Best Short Stories of 1915, edited by Edward J. O'Brien
    • THE WATER-HOLE. By Maxwell Struthers Burt (From _Scribner's Magazine_)
    • THE WAKE. By Donn Byrne (From _Harper's Magazine_)
    • CHAUTONVILLE. By Will Levington Comfort (From _The Masses_)
    • LA DERNIERE MOBILISATION. By W.A. Dwiggins (From _The Fabulist_)
    • THE CITIZEN. By James Francis Dwyer (From _Collier's Weekly_)
    • WHOSE DOG--? By Frances Gregg (From _The Forum_)
    • LIFE. By Ben Hecht (From _The Little Review_)
    • T.B. By Fannie Hurst (From _The Saturday Evening Post_)
    • MR. EBERDEEN'S HOUSE. By Arthur Johnson (From _The Century_)
    • VENGEANCE IS MINE. By Virgil Jordan (From _Everybody's Magazine_)
    • THE WEAVER WHO CLAD THE SUMMER. By Harris Merton Lyon (From _The Illustrated Sunday Magazine_)
    • HEART OF YOUTH. By Walter J. Muilenburg (From _The Midland_)
    • THE END OF THE PATH. By Newbold Noyes (From _Every Week_)
    • THE WHALE AND THE GRASSHOPPER. By Seumas O'Brien (From _The Illustrated Sunday Magazine_)
    • IN BERLIN. By Mary Boyle O'Reilly (From _The Boston Daily Advertiser_)
    • THE WAITING YEARS. By Katharine Metcalf Roof (From _The Century Magazine_)
    • ZELIG. By Benjamin Rosenblatt (From _The Bellman_)
    • THE SURVIVORS. By Elsie Singmaster (From _The Outlook_)
    • THE YELLOW CAT. By Wilbur Daniel Steele (From _Harper's Magazine_)
    • THE BOUNTY-JUMPER. By Mary Synon (From _Scribner's Magazine_)
  • Best Short Stories of 1917, edited by Edward J. O'Brien
    • THE EXCURSION. By Edwina Stanton Babcock  (From _The Pictorial Review_)
    • ONNIE. By Thomas Beer  (From _The Century Magazine_)
    • A CUP OF TEA. By Maxwell Struthers Burt    (From _Scribner's Magazine_)
    • LONELY PLACES. By Francis Buzzell    (From _The Pictorial Review_)
    • BOYS WILL BE BOYS. By Irvin S. Cobb (From _The Saturday Evening Post_)
    • LAUGHTER. By Charles Caldwell Dobie (From _Harper's Magazine_)
    • THE EMPEROR OF ELAM. By H. G. Dwight  (From _The Century Magazine_)
    • THE GAY OLD DOG. By Edna Ferber  (From _The Metropolitan Magazine_)
    • THE KNIGHT'S MOVE. By Katharine Fullerton Gerould  (From _The Atlantic Monthly_)
    • A JURY OF HER PEERS. By Susan Glaspell   (From _Every Week_)
    • THE BUNKER MOUSE. By Frederick Stuart Greene (From _The Century Magazine_)
    • RAINBOW PETE. By Richard Matthews Hallet (From _The Pictorial Review_)
    • GET READY THE WREATHS. By Fannie Hurst  (From _The Cosmopolitan Magazine_)
    • THE STRANGE-LOOKING MAN. By Fanny Kemble  Johnson (From _The Pagan_)
    • THE CALLER IN THE NIGHT. By Burton Kline (From _The Stratford Journal_)
    • THE INTERVAL. By Vincent O'Sullivan  (From _The Boston Evening Transcript_)
    • "A CERTAIN RICH MAN--." By Lawrence Perry  (From _Scribner's Magazine_)
    • THE PATH OF GLORY. By Mary Brecht Pulver (From _The Saturday Evening Post_)
    • CHING, CHING, CHINAMAN. By Wilbur Daniel Steele   (From _The Pictorial Review_)
    • NONE SO BLIND. By Mary Synon (From _Harper's Magazine_)
  • Best Short Stories of 1920, edited by Edward J. O'Brien
    • The Other Woman. By Sherwood Anderson     (From _The Little Review_)
    • Gargoyle. By Edwina Stanton Babcock  (From _Harper's Magazine_)
    • Ghitza. By Konrad Bercovici (From _The Dial_)
    • The Life of Five Points. By Edna Clare Bryner (From _The Dial_)
    • The Signal Tower. By Wadsworth Camp (From _The Metropolitan_)
    • The Parting Genius. By Helen Coale Crew  (From _The Midland_)
    • Habakkuk. By Katharine Fullerton Gerould (From _Scribner's Magazine_)
    • The Judgment of Vulcan. By Lee Foster Hartman (From _Harper's Magazine_)
    • The Stick-in-the-Muds. By Rupert Hughes (From _Collier's Weekly_)
    • His Job. By Grace Sartwell Mason  (From _Scribner's Magazine_)
    • The Rending. By James Oppenheim  (From _The Dial_)
    • The Dummy-Chucker. By Arthur Somers Roche (From _The Cosmopolitan_)
    • Butterflies. By Rose Sidney   (From _The Pictorial Review_)
    • The Rotter. By Fleta Campbell Springer (From _Harper's Magazine_)
    • Out of Exile. By Wilbur Daniel Steele (From _The Pictorial Review_)
    • The Three Telegrams. By Ethel Storm  (From _The Ladies' Home Journal_)
    • The Roman Bath. By John T. Wheelwright (From _Scribner's Magazine_)
    • Amazement. By Stephen French Whitman   (From _Harper's Magazine_)
    • Sheener. By Ben Ames Williams (From _Collier's Weekly_)
    • Turkey Red. By Frances Gilchrist Wood   (From _The Pictorial Review_)
  • Best Short Stories of 1921, edited by Edward J. O'Brien
    • BROTHERS. By Sherwood Anderson.  (From _The Bookman_)
    • FANUTZA. By Konrad Bercovici.  (From _The Dial_)
    • EXPERIMENT. By Maxwell Struthers Burt. (From _The Pictorial Review_)
    • DARKNESS. By Irvin S. Cobb.   (From _The Saturday Evening Post_)
    • AN INSTRUMENT OF THE GODS. By Lincoln Colcord.  (From _The American Magazine_)
    • THE LIZARD GOD. By Charles J. Finger.  (From _All's Well_)
    • UNDER THE DOME. By Waldo Frank.   (From _The Dial_)
    • FRENCH EVA. By Katharine Fullerton Gerould. (From _Scribner's Magazine_)
    • THE PAST. By Ellen Glasgow.   (From _Good Housekeeping_)
    • HIS SMILE. By Susan Glaspell.  (From _The Pictorial Review_)
    • THE HARBOR MASTER. By Richard Matthews Hallet.  (From _Harper's Magazine_)
    • GREEN GARDENS. By Frances Noyes Hart.   (From _Scribner's Magazine_)
    • SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY. By Fannie Hurst.  (From _The Cosmopolitan_)
    • THE LITTLE MASTER OF THE SKY. By Manuel Komroff.   (From _The Dial_)
    • THE MAN WITH THE GOOD FACE. By Frank Luther Mott.  (From _The Midland_)
    • MASTER OF FALLEN YEARS. By Vincent O'Sullivan. (From _The Smart Set_)
    • THE SHAME DANCE. By Wilbur Daniel Steele.  (From _Harper's Magazine_)
    • KINDRED. By Harriet Maxon Thayer. (From _The Midland_)
    • SHELBY. By Charles Hanson Towne.   (From _The Smart Set_)
    • THE WALLOW OF THE SEA. By Mary Heaton Vorse.   (From _Harper's Magazine_)
  • Golden Stories: a Selection of the Best Fiction by the foremost Writers
    • The Night Express by Fred M. White
    • Over the Garden Wall by Louise Hamilton Mabie
    • Rural Insurance by Clotilde Graves
    • His Honor, the District Judge, a Tale of India by John Le Breton
    • A Fog-Horn Conclusion by Fox Russell
    • Mary Jane's Diversion, a Western Tale by Charles Alden Seltzer
    • Between Friends, a Story of the Italian Quarter by Adriana Spadoni
    • The Hammerpond Burglary by H.G. Wells
    • A Fo'c's'le Tragedy by Percy Longhurst
    • The Adopted Son, a Tale of Peasant Life by Guy de Maupassant
    • Providence and Mrs. Urmy by Armiger Barclay and Oliver Sandys
    • The Million Dollar Freight Train by Frank H. Spearman
    • The Bulldog Breed, a Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Ambrose Pratt
    • Ice in June, a Playwright's Story by Fred M. White
    • The Ditty-Box, a Pawnbroker's Story by Owen Oliver
    • The Yellow Cat, an Idyll of the Summer by Annie E.P. Searing
    • A Cock and Policeman, a Tale of Rural England by Ralph Kaye Assheton
    • Prisoners in the Tower, an Episode of Travel by Lucy Copinger
    • Sankey's Double-Header, a Winter's Tale by Frank H. Spearman
    • Aunt Mary Telepgraphs, a Comedy of Everyday Life by Lloyd E. Lonergan
    • The Vengeance of the Wolf, a Drama in Wales by J. Aquila Kempster
    • The Wooing of Betina, a Story of Finance by W.Y. Sheppard
    • The Jam God, a Tale of Nigeria by H.M. Egbert
  • The Best Ghost Stories (Modern Library)
    • THE APPARITION OF MRS. VEAL  by Daniel De Foe
    • CANON ALBERIC'S SCRAP-BOOK  by Montague Rhodes James
    • THE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS  by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    • THE SILENT WOMAN  by Leopold Kompert
    • BANSHEES
    • THE MAN WHO WENT TOO FAR  by E.F. Benson
    • THE WOMAN'S GHOST STORY  by Algernon Blackwood
    • THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW  by Rudyard Kipling
    • THE RIVAL GHOSTS by Brander Matthews
    • THE DAMNED THING  by Ambrose Bierce
    • THE INTERVAL  by Vincent O'Sullivan
    • DEY AIN'T NO GHOSTS  by Ellis Parker Butler
    • SOME REAL AMERICAN GHOSTS
  • Famous Modern Ghost Stories, selected by Dorothy Scarborough
    • THE WILLOWS BY ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
    • THE SHADOWS ON THE WALL BY MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
    • THE MESSENGER BY ROBERT W. CHAMBERS
    • LAZARUS BY LEONID ANDREYEV
    • THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS BY W. F. HARVEY
    • THE MASS OF SHADOWS BY ANATOLE FRANCE
    • WHAT WAS IT? BY FITZ-JAMES O'BRIEN
    • THE MIDDLE TOE OF THE RIGHT FOOT BY AMBROSE BIERCE
    • THE SHELL OF SENSE BY OLIVIA HOWARD DUNBAR
    • THE WOMAN AT SEVEN BROTHERS BY WILBUR DANIEL STEELE
    • AT THE GATE BY MYLA JO CLOSSER
    • LIGEIA BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
    • THE HAUNTED ORCHARD BY RICHARD LE GALLIENNE
    • THE BOWMEN BY ARTHUR MACHEN
    • A GHOST BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT
  • The Haunters and the Hautned, Ghost Stories and Tales of the Supernatural, edited by Ernest Rhys
  • Stories of Mystery edited by Rossiter Johnson
    • THE GHOST  . . . . . . . . . . . . . _William D. O'Connor_
    • THE FOUR-FIFTEEN EXPRESS . . . . . . _Amelia B. Edwards_
    • THE SIGNAL-MAN . . . . . . . . . . . _Charles Dickens_
    • THE HAUNTED SHIPS  . . . . . . . . . _Allan Cunningham_
    • A RAFT THAT NO MAN MADE  . . . . . . _Robert T.S. Lowell_
    • THE INVISIBLE PRINCESS . . . . . . . _Francis O'Connor_
    • THE ADVOCATE'S WEDDING-DAY . . . . . _Catherine Crowe_
    • THE BIRTHMARK  . . . . . . . . . . . _Nathaniel Hawthorne_
  • Stories of Comedy edited by Rossiter Johnson
    • BARNY O'REIRDON THE NAVIGATOR      _Samuel Lover_           7
    • HADDAD-BEN-AHAB THE TRAVELLER      _John Galt_             58
    • BLUEBEARD'S GHOST                  _Wm. M. Thackeray_      67
    • THE PICNIC PARTY                   _Horace Smith_         102
    • FATHER TOM AND THE POPE            _Samuel Ferguson_      131
    • JOHNNY DARBYSHIRE                  _William Howitt_       168
    • THE GRIDIRON                       _Samuel Lover_         206
    • THE BOX TUNNEL                     _Charles Reade_        217
  • Great Sea Stories, edited by Joseph Lewis French
    • Spanish Bloodhounds and English Mastiffs, From "Westward Ho!" By CHARLES KINGSLEY
    • The Club-Hauling of the _Diomede_, From "Peter Simple." By CAPTAIN FREDERICK MARRYAT
    • The Cruise of the _Torch_, From "Tom Cringle's Log." By MICHAEL SCOTT
    • The Merchantman and the Pirate, From "Hard Cash." By CHARLES READE
    • The Mutiny of the _Bounty_, From "Chamber's Miscellany." ANONYMOUS
    • The Wreck of the _Royal Caroline_, From "The Red Rover." By JAMES FENNIMORE COOPER
    • The Capture of the Great White Whale, From "Moby Dick." By HERMAN MELVILLE
    • The Corvette _Claymore_, From "Ninety-three." By VICTOR HUGO
    • The Merchants' Cup, From "Broken Stowage." By DAVID W. BONE
    • A Storm and a Rescue, From "The Wreck of the _Grosvenor_." By W. CLARK RUSSELL
    • The Sailor's Wife, From "An Iceland Fisherman." By PIERRE LOTI
    • The Salving of the _Yan-Shan_, From "In Blue Waters." By H. DE VERE STACKPOOLE
    • The Derelict _Neptune_, From "Spun Gold." By MORGAN ROBERTSON
    • The Terrible Solomons, From "South Sea Tales." By JACK LONDON
    • El Dorado, From "A Tarpaulin Muster." By JOHN MASEFIELD
  • The Spinners' Book of Fiction
    • CONCHA ARGUELLO, SISTER DOMINICA by Gertrude Atherton
    • THE FORD OF CREVECOEUR by Mary Austin
    • A CALIFORNIAN by Geraldine Bonner
    • GIDEON'S KNOCK by Mary Halleck Foote
    • A YELLOW MAN AND A WHITE by Eleanor Gates
    • THE JUDGMENT OF MAN by James Hopper
    • THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN by Jack London
    • DOWN THE FLUME WITH THE SNEATH PIANO by Bailey Millard
    • THE CONTUMACY OF SARAH L. WALKER by Miriam Michelson
    • BREAKING THROUGH by W. C. Morrow
    • A LOST STORY by Frank Norris
    • HANTU by Henry Milner Rideout
    • MISS. JUNO by Charles Warren Stoddard
    • A LITTLE SAVAGE GENTLEMAN by Isobel Strong
    • LOVE AND ADVERTISING by Richard Walton Tully
    • THE TEWANA by Herman Whitaker
  • Short Stories of Various Types, edited by Laura F. Freck
    • O. Henry: The Gift of the Magi
    • Booth Tarkington: A Reward of Merit
    • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews: "American, Sir!"
    • Katherine Mayo: John G.
    • Myra Kelly: Friends
    • Hamlin Garland: A Camping Trip
    • Dorothy Canfield Fisher: A Thread Without a Knot
    • Francis Bret Harte: Chu Chu
    • Nathaniel Hawthorne: Feathertop
    • Arthur Conan Doyle: The Red-Headed League
    • James Matthew Barrie: The Inconsiderate Waiter
    • Alphonse Daudet: The Siege of Berlin
    • Selma Lagerloef: The Silver Mine
  • Tales from Many Sources, volume 5
    • LOB LIE-BY-THE-FIRE. BY JULIANA H. EWING.
    •    WILD JACK. FROM TEMPLE BAR.
    •    VIRGINIA. BY MRS. FORRESTER.
    •    MR. JOSIAH SMITH'S BALLOON VOYAGE. FROM BELGRAVIA.
    •    NUMBER 7639. BY MARY FRANCES PEARD.
    •    GONERIL. BY A. MARY F. ROBINSON.
    •    OUT OF SEASON. FROM TEMPLE BAR.
  • Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, edited by Julian Hawthorne
    • volume 2, French, Italian, Spanish, and Latin Mystery Stories
      • HENRI RENE ALBERT GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1850-93).
        • The Necklace
        • The Man with the Pale Eyes
        • An Uncomfortable Bed
        • Ghosts
        • Fear
        • The Confession
        • The Horla
      • PIERRE MILLE.
        • The Miracle of Zobeide
      • VILLIERS DE L'ISLE ADAM.
        • The Torture by Hope
      • ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN (1822-99)--(1826-90).
        • The Owl's Ear
        • The Invisible Eye
        • The Waters of Death
      • HONORE DE BALZAC (1799-1850).
        • Melmoth Reconciled
        • The Conscript
      • JEAN FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (1694-1778).
        • Zadig the Babylonian
      • PEDRO DE ALARCON.
        • The Nail
      • LUIGI CAPUANA (1839-00).
        • The Deposition
      • LUCIUS APULEIUS (Second Century).
        • The Adventure of the Three Robbers
      • PLINY, THE YOUNGER (First Century).
        • Letter to Sura
  • O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories
    • 1919
      • ENGLAND TO AMERICA. By Margaret Prescott Montague
      • "FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO." By Wilbur Daniel Steele
      • THEY GRIND EXCEEDING SMALL. By Ben Ames Williams
      • ON STRIKE. By Albert Payson Terhune.
      • THE ELEPHANT REMEMBERS. By Edison Marshall
      • TURKEY RED. By Frances Gilchrist Wood
      • FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD. By Melville Davisson Post
      • THE BLOOD OF THE DRAGON. By Thomas Grant Springer
      • "HUMORESQUE." By Fannie Hurst
      • THE LUBBENY KISS. By Louise Rice.
      • THE TRIAL IN TOM BELCHER'S STORE. By Samuel A. Derieux
      • PORCELAIN CUPS. By James Branch Cabell
      • THE HIGH COST OF CONSCIENCE. By Beatrice Ravenel
      • THE KITCHEN GODS. By G.F. Alsop
      • APRIL 25TH, AS USUAL. By Edna Ferber
    • 1920
      • EACH IN HIS GENERATION. By Maxwell Struthers Burt
      • "CONTACT!" By Frances Noyes Hart
      • THE CAMEL'S BACK. By F. Scott Fitzgerald
      • BREAK-NECK HILL. By Esther Forbes
      • BLACK ART AND AMBROSE. By Guy Gilpatric
      • THE JUDGMENT OF VULCAN. By Lee Foster Hartman
      • THE ARGOSIES. By Alexander Hull
      • ALMA MATER. By O. F. Lewis
      • SLOW POISON. By Alice Duer Miller
      • THE FACE IN THE WINDOW. By William Dudley Pelley
      • A MATTER OF LOYALTY. By Lawrence Perry
      • PROFESSOR TODD'S USED CAR. By L.H. Robbins
      • THE THING THEY LOVED. By "Marice Rutledge"
      • BUTTERFLIES. By "Rose Sidney"
      • NO FLOWERS. By Gordon Arthur Smith
      • FOOTFALLS. By Wilbur Daniel Steele
      • THE LAST ROOM OF ALL. By Stephen French Whitman
    • 1921
      • THE HEART OF LITTLE SHIKARA. By Edison Marshall
      • THE MAN WHO CURSED THE LILIES. By Charles Tenney Jackson
      • THE URGE. By Maryland Allen
      • MUMMERY. By Thomas Beer
      • THE VICTIM OF HIS VISION. By Gerald Chittenden
      • MARTIN GERRITY GETS EVEN. By Courtney Ryley Cooper and Leo F. Creagan
      • STRANGER THINGS. By Mildred Cram
      • COMET. By Samuel A. Derieux
      • FIFTY-TWO WEEKS FOR FLORETTE. By Elizabeth Alexander Heermann
      • WILD EARTH. By Sophie Kerr
      • THE TRIBUTE. By Harry Anable Kniffin
      • THE GET-AWAY. By O.F. Lewis
      • "AURORE." By Ethel Watts Mumford
      • MR. DOWNEY SITS DOWN. By L.H. Robbins
      • THE MARRIAGE IN KAIRWAN. By Wilbur Daniel Steele
      • GRIT. By Tristram Tupper
The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories - Old Time English, Edited by Julian Hawthorne
  • Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
    • The Haunted House
    • No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal Man
  • Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
    • The Haunted and the Haunters, or The House and the Brain
    • The Incantation
  • Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859)
    • The Avenger
  • Charles Robert Maturin (1782-1824)
    • Melmoth the Wanderer
  • Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
    • A Mystery with a Moral
  • William Makepiece Thackeray (1811-1863)
    • On Being Found Out
    • The Notch on the Ax
  • Anonymous
    • Bourgonef
    • The Closed Cabinet
  • The Lock and Key Library: Detective and Magic Stories from Real Life, Edited by Julian Hawthorne
    • Part 1 -- Detective Stories from Real Life
      • Arthur Train
        • A Flight into Texas
      • P.H. Woodward
        • Adventures in the Secret Service of the Post-Office Department
        • An Erring Shepherd
        • An Aspirant for Congress
        • The Fortune of Seth Savage
        • A Wish Unexpectedly Gratified
        • An Old Game Revived
        • A Formidable Weapon
      • Andrew Lang
        • Saint-Germain the Deathless
        • The Man in the Iron Mask
          • The Legend
          • The Valet's History
          • The Valet's Master
          • Original Papers in the Case of Roux De Marsilly
    • Part 2 -- True Stories of Modern Magic
      • M. Robert-Houdin
        • A Conjurer's Confessions
          • Self-Training
          • "Second Sight"
          • The Magician Who Became an Ambassador
          • Facing the Arab's Pistol
      • David P. Abbott
        • Fraudulent Spiritualism Unveiled
          • A Doctor of the Occult
          • How the Tricks Succeeded
          • The Name of the Dead
          • Mind Reading in Public
          • Some Famous Exposures
      • Hereward Carrington
        • More Tricks of "Spiritualism"
          • "Matter through Matter"
          • Deception Explained by the Science of Psychology
      • Anonymous
        • How Spirits Materialize
  • The Lock and Key Library: the Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: American, Edited by Julian Hawthorne
    • Julian Hawthorne
      • Introduction: Riddle Stories
    • F. Marion Crawford (born 1854)
      • By the Waters of Paradise
    • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (born 1862)
      • The Shadows on the Wall
    • Melville D. Post (born 1871)
      • The Corpus Delicti
    • Ambrose Bierce (born 1842)
      • An Heiress from Redhorse
      • The Man and the Snake
    • Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
      • The Oblong Box
      • The Gold-Bug
    • Washington Irving (1783-1859)
      • Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams
      • Adventure of the Black Fisherman
    • Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
      • Wieland's Madness
    • FitzJames O'Brien (1828-1862)
      • The Golden Ingot
      • My Wife's Tempter
    • Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
      • The Minister's Black Veil
    • Anonymous
      • Horror: A True Tale
  • The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English: Edited by Julian Hawthorne
    • Arthur Conan Doyle (born 1859)
      • A Case of Identity
      • A Scandal in Bohemia
      • The Red-Headed League
    • Egerton Castle (born 1858)
      • The Baron's Quarry
    • Stanley J. Weyman (born 1855)
      • The Fowl in the Pot
    • Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
      • The Pavilion on the Links
    • Wilkie Collins (1824-89)
      • The Dream Woman
    • Anonymous
      • The Lost Duchess
      • The Minor Canon
      • The Pipe
      • The Puzzle
      • The Great Valdez Sapphire
  • The Lock and Key Library: the Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: French, Edited by Julian Hawthorne
    • Victor Cherbuliez
      • Count Kostia
    • Paul Bourget
      • Andre Cornelis
    • Anonymous
      • The Last of the Costellos
      • Lady Betty's Indiscretion
  • Master Tales of Mystery, volume 3, edited by Francis J. Reynolds
    • ARTHUR B. REEVE
      • THE POISONED PEN
      • THE INVISIBLE RAT
      • THE SILENT BULLET
      • THE DEADLY TUBS
      • THE BLACK HAND
      • THE STEEL DOOR
    • PAUL L. FORD
      • GREAT K. & A. TRAIN ROBBERY
    • MAX PEMBERTON
      • THE RISEN DEAD
    • GEO.B. McCUTCHEON
      • COWARDICE COURT
    • BURTON E. STEVENSON
      • THE CASE OF MRS. MAGNUS
    • JOSEPH ERNEST
      • THE EPISODE or THE BLACK CASQUETTE
    • MARJORIE L.C. PICKTHALL
      • CHEAP
  • Not Pretty, but Precious and Other Stories
    • Not Pretty, but Precious, Margret Field
    • The Victims of Dreams, Margaret Hosmer
    • The Cold Hand, Clara F. Guernsey
    • The Blood Seedling, John Hay
    • The Marquis, Chauncey Hickox
    • Under False Colors, Lucy Hamilton Hooper
    • The Hungry Heart, J.W. De Forrest
    • "How Mother Did It," J.R. Hadermann
    • The Red Fox, Clara F. Guernsey
    • Louie, Harriet Prescott Spofford
    • Old Sadler'S Resurrection, R.D. Minor
  • Quaint Courtships, edited by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden
    • MARGARET DELAND
      • AN ENCORE
    • NORMAN DUNCAN
      • A ROMANCE OF WHOOPING HARBOR
    • MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
      • HYACINTHUS
    • SEWELL FORD
      • JANE'S GRAY EYES
    • HERMAN WHITAKER
      • A STIFF CONDITION
    • MAY HARRIS
      • IN THE INTERESTS OF CHRISTOPHER
    • FRANCIS WILLING WHARTON
      • THE WRONG DOOR
    • WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
      • BRAYBRIDGE'S OFFER
    • ELIA W. PEATTIE
      • THE RUBAIYAT AND THE LINER
    • ANNIE HAMILTON DONNELL
      • THE MINISTER
  • Short Stories for English Courses, edited by Rosa Mikels
    • THE FIRST CHRISTMAS-TREE Henry van Dyke
    • A FRENCH TAR-BABY Joel Chandler Harris
    • SONNY'S CHRISTENIN' Ruth McEnery Stuart
    • CHRISTMAS NIGHT WITH SATAN John Fox, Jr.
    • A NEST-EGG James Whitcomb Riley
    • THE GOLD BUG Edgar Allan Poe
    • THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF O. Henry
    • THE FRESHMAN FULL-BACK Ralph D. Paine
    • GALLEGHER Richard Harding Davis
    • THE JUMPING FROG Mark Twain
    • THE LADY OR THE TIGER? Frank R. Stockton
    • THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT Francis Bret Harte
    • THE REVOLT OF MOTHER Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
    • MARSE CHAN Thomas Nelson Page
    • "POSSON JONE'" George W. Cable
    • OUR AROMATIC UNCLE Henry Cuyler Bunner
    • QUALITY John Galsworthy
    • THE TRIUMPH OF NIGHT Edith Wharton
    • A MESSENGER Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
    • MARKHEIM Robert Louis Stevenson.
  • Short Stories Old and New edited by C. Alphonso Smith, 1916
    • ESTHER, From the Old Testament

      • THE HISTORY OF ALI BABA AND THE FORTY ROBBERS, From "The Arabian Nights"
      RIP VAN WINKLE, By Washington Irving
      THE GOLD-BUG, By Edgar Allan Poe
      A CHRISTMAS CAROL, By Charles Dickens
      THE GREAT STONE FACE, By Nathaniel Hawthorne
      RAB AND HIS FRIENDS, By Dr. John Brown
      THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT, By Bret Harte
      MARKHEIM, By Robert Louis Stevenson
      THE NECKLACE, By Guy de Maupassant
      THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING, By Rudyard Kipling
      THE GIFT OF THE MAGI, By O. Henry
  • Stories Worth Rereading
    • THEIR WORD OF HONOR
    • MURIEL'S BRIGHT IDEA
    • THE STRENGTH OF CLINTON
    • THE DOCTOR'S COW
    • HONEY AT THE PHONE
    • ONE OF FATHER'S STORIES
    • WHAT RUM DOES
    • MY MOTHER'S RING
    • THE BRIDAL WINE-CUP
    • A MOTHER'S SORROW
    • THE REPRIMAND
    • AN EXAMPLE
    • FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT
    • TIGHTENING THE SADDLE-GIRTH
    • "HERRINGS FOR NOTHING"
    • THE POWER OF SONG
    • JACK'S FIDELITY
    • HONOR THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER
    • THE SLEIGH-RIDE
    • SAMUEL SMILES, THE AUTHOR OF "SELF-HELP"
    • DAVID LIVINGSTONE
    • A TRUE INCIDENT OF THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE
    • LITTLE CORNERS
    • IN THE HOME
    • GIANTS AND GRASSHOPPERS
    • AS GOOD AS HIS BOND
    • PLAIN BERNICE
    • HOW THE BOY WITHOUT A REFERENCE FOUND ONE
    • AN HOUR A DAY FOR A YEAR
    • "PLEASE, SIR, I WOULD RATHER NOT"
    • THE RIGHT WORD
    • THE SADDEST OF INDIA'S PICTURES (1912)
    • ONE LITTLE WIDOW
    • WHY THE MITE BOXES WERE FULL
    • TI-TO AND THE BOXERS
    • HOW NYANGANDI SWAM TO CHURCH
    • THE LITTLE PRINTER MISSIONARY
    • THE MISSIONARY'S DEFENSE
    • LIGHT AT LAST
    • THE BROWN TOWEL
    • ONLY A BOY
    • THE LITTLE PROTECTOR
    • MOFFAT AND AFRICANER
    • TWO TRIFLES
    • A SECOND TRIAL
    • THE SIN OF EXTRAVAGANCE
    • A LITTLE CHILD'S WORK
    • THE HANDY BOX
    • THE RESULT OF DISOBEDIENCE
    • LIVINGSTONE'S BODY-GUARD
    • SPARE MOMENTS
    • A GOLD MEDAL
    • A GIRL'S RAILWAY ACQUAINTANCE
    • HAROLD'S FOOTMAN
    • ELNATHAN'S GOLD
    • ONLY A JACK-KNIFE
    • A SPELLING-BEE
    • JACK'S QUEER WAYS
    • WHAT ONE BOY DID
    • HOW NICK LEARNED MANNERS
    • WITHOUT BALLAST
    • INFLUENCE OF A GOOD BOOK
    • "STRAIGHTENING OUT THE FURROWS"
    • A BOY WHO WAS WANTED
    • WANTED: AN EMPLOYER
    • HOW TO STOP SWEARING
    • THE CAROLS OF BETHLEHEM CENTER
    • STANDING BEAR'S SPEECH
    • MABEL ASHTON'S DREAM
    • A SAD BUT TRUE STORY
    • "THE MAN THAT DIED FOR ME"
    • OUR GRASS RUG AND--OTHER THINGS
  • Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship
    • ANGELA, An Inverted Love Story, by William Schwenk Gilbert
    • THE PARSON'S DAUGHTER OF OXNEY COLNE, by Anthony Trollope
    • ANTHONY GARSTIN'S COURTSHIP, by Hubert Crackanthorpe
    • A LITTLE GREY GLOVE, by George Egerton (Mary Chavelita [Dunne] Bright)
    • THE WOMAN BEATER, by Israel Zangwill

American Short Stories

Collections

  • Best American Humorous Short Stories
    • THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN AND HIS WATER LOTS (1839) by George Pope Morris
    • THE ANGEL OF THE ODD (1844) by Edgar Allan Poe
    • THE SCHOOLMASTER'S PROGRESS (1844) by Caroline M.S. Kirkland
    • THE WATKINSON EVENING (1846) by Eliza Leslie
    • TITBOTTOM'S SPECTACLES (1854) by George Willim Curtis
    • MY DOUBLE; AND HOW HE UNDID ME (1859) by Edward Everett Hale
    • A VISIT TO THE ASYLUM FOR AGED AND DECAYED PUNSTERS (1861) by Oliver Wendell Holmes
    • THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY (1865) by Mark Twain
    • ELDER BROWN'S BACKSLIDE (1885) by Harry Stillwell Edwards
    • THE HOTEL EXPERIENCE OF MR. PINK FLUKER (1886) by Richard Malcolm Johnston
    • THE NICE PEOPLE (1890) by Henry Cuyler Bunner
    • THE BULLER-PODINGTON COMPACT (1897) by Frank Richard Stockton
    • COLONEL STARBOTTLE FOR THE PLAINTIFF (1901) by Bret Harte
    • THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES (1902) by O. Henry
    • BARGAIN DAY AT TUTT HOUSE (1905) by George Randolph Chester
    • A CALL (1906) by Grace MacGowan Cooke
    • HOW THE WIDOW WON THE DEACON (1911) by William James Lampton
    • GIDEON (1914) by Wells Hastings
  • Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor edited by Thomas Masson, volume 4. Includes:
      • A Plea for Humor by Agnes Repplier
      • An Unmarried Female by Marietta Holley
      • Selections from a Brace of Boys by Fitzhugh Ludlow
      • Rheumatism Movement Cure by Robert Jones Burdette
      • An Aphorism and a Lecture by Oliver Wendell Holmes
      • The Harp of a Thousand Strings by Joshua Morris
      • My First Visit to Portland by Seba Smith
      • Country Burial-places by John Carver
      • The Hoosier and the Salt-pile by Danforth Marble
      • One of Mr. Ward's Business Letters and On "Forts" by Charles F. Browne ("Artemus Ward")
      • Street Scenes in Washington by Louisa Mae Alcott
      • The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe
      • Mrs. Johnson by William Dean Howells
    • Southern Lights and Shadows edited by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden, 1917
      • Grace MacGowan Cooke
        • THE CAPTURE OF ANDY PROUDFOOT
      • Abby Meguire Roach
        • THE LEVEL OF FORTUNE
      • Alice MacGowan
        • PAP OVERHOLT
      • Mrs. B.F. Mayhew
        • IN THE PINY WOODS
      • William L. Sheppard
        • MY FIFTH IN MAMMY
      • Sarah Barnwell Elliott
        • AN INCIDENT
      • M.E.M. Davis
        • A SNIPE HUNT
      • J.J. Eakins
        • THE COURTSHIP OF COLONEL BILL
      • Maurice Thompson
        • THE BALANCE OF POWER
    • Stories by American Authors, volume 5
      • A LIGHT MAN. By Henry James.
      • YATIL. By F.D. Millet.
      • THE END OF NEW YORK. By Park Benjamin.
      • WHY THOMAS WAS DISCHARGED. By George Arnold.
      • THE TACHYPOMP. By E.P. Mitchell.
    • Stories by American Authors, volume 6
      • THE VILLAGE CONVICT. By C.H. WHITE.
      • THE DENVER EXPRESS. By A.A. HAYES.
      • THE MISFORTUNES OF BRO' THOMAS WHEATLEY. By LINA REDWOOD FAIRFAX.
      • THE HEARTBREAK CAMEO. By L.W. CHAMPNEY.
      • MISS EUNICE'S GLOVE. By ALBERT WEBSTER.
      • BROTHER SEBASTIAN'S FRIENDSHIP. By HAROLD FREDERIC.
    • Short Story Classics (American) volume 2, edited by William Patten
      • THE BRIGADE COMMANDER by  J. W. DEFOREST
      • WHO WAS SHE? by  BAYARD TAYLOR
      • MADEMOISELLE OLYMPE ZABRISKI by  THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
      • BROTHER SEBASTIAN'S FRIENDSHIP by  HAROLD FREDERIC
      • A GOOD-FOR-NOTHING by  HJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN
      • THE IDYL OF RED GULCH by BRET HARTE
      • CRUTCH, THE PAGE by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND ("GATH")
      • IN EACH OTHER'S SHOES by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP
      • THE DENVER EXPRESS by  A. A. HAYES
      • JAUNE D'ANTIMOINE by  THOMAS ALLIBONE JANVIER
      • OLE 'STRACTED by  THOMAS NELSON PAGE
      • OUR CONSUL AT CARLSRUHE by  F. J. STIMSON ("J. S. OF DALE")
    • The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras by Joaquin Miller and Other Stories [by other authors]
      • THE LITTLE GOLD MINERS OF THE SIERRAS.  by Joaquin Miller
      • A MODERN HERO.  by Marion Harland.
      • BENNY'S WIGWAM.     by Mary Catherine Lee.
      • BENNY'S DISAPPEARANCE.  by   Mary Catherine Lee.
      • HOW TWO SCHOOLBOYS KILLED A BEAR.  by H. F. Marsh.
      • PETE'S PRINTING PRESS. by   Kate Gannett Wells.
      •  AUNT ELIZABETH'S FENCE.  by George H. Hebard.
      • THE BUTTON BOY. by A. M. Griffin.
      • DAN HARDY'S CRIPPY.  by James Otis.
      • HIS THREE TRIALS. by  Kate Gannett Wells.
      • IN THE SECOND DORMITORY.  by John Preston True.
      • THE DOUGHNUT BAIT. by George Varney.
      • A REAL HAPPENING.  by Mary B. Claflin.

    Anonymous

    • No and Other Stories, compiled by Uncle Humphrey, 1851
      • No
      • Willy and the Beggar Girl
      • The Good Son
      • The Sick Mother
      • Cornelia's Prayer
      • Forgiveness
      • The Guilty Conscience
      • Acorn Hollow
      • Industry and Idleness
      • Envy

    Andy Adams

    • Cattle Brands: a Collection of Western Camp Fire Stories
      • DRIFTING NORTH
      • SEIGERMAN'S PER CENT
      • "BAD MEDICINE"
      • A WINTER ROUND-UP
      • A COLLEGE VAGABOND
      • THE DOUBLE TRAIL
      • RANGERING
      • AT COMANCHE FORD
      • AROUND THE SPADE WAGON
      • THE RANSOM OF DON RAMON MORA
      • THE PASSING OF PEG-LEG
      • IN THE HANDS OF HIS FRIENDS
      • A QUESTION OF POSSESSION
      •  THE STORY OF A POKER STEER

    Louisa Mae Alcott

    • Marjorie's Three Gifts (short story)
    • Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories (AKA Proverb Stories)
      •  KITTY'S CLASS DAY
      •  AUNT KIPP
      •  PSYCHE'S ART
      •  A COUNTRY CHRISTMAS
      •  ON PICKET DUTY
      •  THE BARON'S GLOVES
      •  MY RED CAP
      •  WHAT THE BELLS SAW AND SAID

    Sherwood Anderson

    • Winesburg, Ohio, 22 stories
      • THE BOOK OF THE GROTESQUE
      • HANDS, concerning Wing Biddlebaum
      • PAPER PILLS, concerning Doctor Reefy
      • MOTHER, concerning Elizabeth Willard
      • THE PHILOSOPHER, concerning Doctor Parcival
      • NOBODY KNOWS, concerning Louise Trunnion
      • GODLINESS, a Tale in Four Parts
      •        I, concerning Jesse Bentley
      •        II, also concerning Jesse Bentley
      •        III Surrender, concerning Louise Bentley
      •        IV Terror, concerning David Hardy
      • A MAN OF IDEAS, concerning Joe Welling
      • ADVENTURE, concerning Alice Hindman
      • RESPECTABILITY, concerning Wash Williams
      • THE THINKER, concerning Seth Richmond
      • TANDY, concerning Tandy Hard
      • THE STRENGTH OF GOD, concerning the Reverend Curtis Hartman
      • THE TEACHER, concerning Kate Swift
      • LONELINESS, concerning Enoch Robinson
      • AN AWAKENING, concerning Belle Carpenter
      • "QUEER," concerning Elmer Cowley
      • THE UNTOLD LIE, concerning Ray Pearson
      • DRINK, concerning Tom Foster
      • DEATH, concerning Doctor Reefy and Elizabeth Willard
      • SOPHISTICATION, concerning Helen White
      • DEPARTURE, concerning George Willard

    T.S. Arthur

    • After a Shadow and Other Stories
      • AFTER A SHADOW.
      • IN THE WAY OF TEMPTATION.
      • ANDY LOVELL.
      • A MYSTERY EXPLAINED.
      • WHAT CAN I DO?
      • ON GUARD.
      • A VISIT WITH THE DOCTOR.
      • HADN'T TIME FOR TROUBLE.
      • A GOOD NAME.
      • LITTLE LIZZIE.
      • ALICE AND THE PIGEON.
      • DRESSED FOR A PARTY.
      • COFFEE VS. BRANDY.
      • AMY'S QUESTION.
      • AN ANGEL IN DISGUISE.
      • WHICH WAS MOST THE LADY?
      • OTHER PEOPLE'S EYES.
    • Home Scenes and Home Influence
      • TAKING COMFORT.
      • CHILDREN--A FAMILY SCENE.
      • LOSING ONE'S TEMPER.
      • TROUBLE WITH SERVANTS.
      • HAVEN'T THE CHANGE.
      • OLD MAIDS' CHILDREN.
      • THE MOTHER AND BOY.
      • THE CHRISTMAS PARTY.
      • IS SHE A LADY?
      • GOING INTO MOURNING.
      • IF THAT WERE MY CHILD.
      • I WILL!
      • A MOTHER'S INFLUENCE.
      • THE POWER OF PATIENCE.
      • AN OLD MAN'S RECOLLECTIONS.
    • Off-Hand Sketches
      • THE CIRCUIT-PREACHER
      • THE PROTEST
      • RETRENCHMENT;  OR, WHAT A MAN SAVED BY STOPPING HIS NEWSPAPER
      • HUNTING UP A TESTIMONIAL
      • TRYING TO BE A GENTLEMAN
      • TAKING A PRESCRIPTION
      • THE YANKEE AND THE DUTCHMAN;  OR, I'LL GIVE OR TAKE
      • A TIPSY PARSON
      • MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING;  OR, THE REASON WHY MRS. TODD DIDN'T SPEAK TO MRS. JONES
      • ALMOST A TRAGEDY
      • THAT JOHN MASON
      • A NEW WAY TO COLLECT AN OLD DEBT
      • A SHOCKING BAD MEMORY
      • DRIVING A HARD BARGAIN
      • OUT OF THE FRYING-PAN INTO THE FIRE;  OR, THE LOVE OF A HOUSE
      • MARRYING A COUNT
      • JOB'S COMFORTERS;  OR, THE LADY WITH NERVES
      • THE CODE OF HONOUR
      • TREATING A CASE ACTIVELY

    Ambrose Bierce

    • Collected Works
      • Volume 1
      • ASHES OF THE BEACON
      • THE LAND BEYOND THE BLOW
        •   THITHER
        •   SONS OF THE FAIR STAR
        •   AN INTERVIEW WITH GNARMAG-ZOTE
        •   THE TAMTONIANS
        •   MAROONED ON UG
        •   THE DOG IN GANGEWAG
        •   A CONFLAGRATION IN GHARGAROO
        •   AN EXECUTION IN BATRUGIA
        •   THE JUMJUM OF GOKEETLE-GUK
        •   THE KINGDOM OF TORTIRRA
        •   HITHER
      • FOR THE AHKOOND
      • JOHN SMITH, LIBERATOR
      • BITS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY
        •   ON A MOUNTAIN
        •   WHAT I SAW OF SHILOH
        •   A LITTLE OF CHICKAMAUCA
        •   THE CRIME AT PICKETT'S MILL
        •   FOUR DAYS IN DIXIE
        •   WHAT OCCURRED AT FRANKLIN
        •   'WAY DOWN IN ALABAM'
        •   WORKING FOR AN EMPRESS
        •   ACROSS THE PLAINS
        •   THE MIRAGE
        •   A SOLE SURVIVOR
      • Volume 2
        • A HORSEMAN IN THE SKY
        • AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE
        • CHICKAMAUGA
        • A SON OF THE GODS
        • ONE OF THE MISSING
        • KILLED AT RESACA
        • THE AFFAIR AT COULTER'S NOTCH
        • THE COUP DE GRACE
        • PARKER ADDERSON, PHILOSOPHER
        • AN AFFAIR OF OUTPOSTS
        • THE STORY OF A CONSCIENCE
        • ONE KIND OF OFFICER
        • ONE OFFICER, ONE MAN
        • GEORGE THURSTON
        • THE MOCKING-BIRD
        • CIVILIANS
          • THE MAN OUT OF THE NOSE
          • AN ADVENTURE AT BROWNVILLE
          • THE FAMOUS GILSON BEQUEST
          • THE APPLICANT
          • A WATCHER BY THE DEAD
          • THE MAN AND THE SNAKE
          • A HOLY TERROR
          • THE SUITABLE SURROUNDINGS
          • THE BOARDED WINDOW
          • A LADY FROM RED HORSE
          • THE EYES OF THE PANTHER
    • Can Such Things Be?
      • The death of Halpin Frayser
      • The secret of Macarger's Gulch
      • One summer night
      • The moonlit road
      • A diagnosis of death
      • Moxon's master
      • A tough tussle
      • One of twins
      • The haunted valley
      • A jug of sirup
      • Staley Fleming's hallucination
      • A resumed identity
      • A baby tramp
      • The night-doings at "Deadman's": A story that is untrue
      • Beyond the wall
      • A psychological shipwreck
      • The middle toe of the right foot
      • John Mortonson's funeral
      • The realm of the unreal
      • John Bartine's watch: A story by a physician
      • The damned thing
      • Haita the shepherd
      • An inhabitant of Carcosa
      • The Stranger
    • Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
    • The Parenticide Club
    • Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
      • The Ways of Ghosts
      • Present at a Hanging
      • A Cold Greeting
      • A Wireless Message
      • An Arrest
      • Soldier-Folk
        • A Man with Two Lives
        • Three and One are One
        • A Baffled Ambuscade
        • Two Military Executions
      • Some Haunted Houses
        • The Isle of Pines
        • A Fruitless Assignment
        • A Vine on a House
        • At Old Man Eckert's
        • The Spook House
        • The Other Lodgers
        • The Thing at Nolan
      • Mysterious Disappearances
        • The Difficulty of Crossing a Field
        • An Unfinished Race
        • Charles Ashmore's Trail
        • Science to the Front
    • A Son of the Gods and a Horseman in the Sky

    B.M. Bower (= Bertha M. Sinclair = husband of Bertrand Sinclair)

    • The Lonesome Trail
      • THE LONESOME TRAIL
      • FIRST AID TO CUPID
      • WHEN THE COOK FELL ILL
      • THE LAMB
      • THE SPIRIT OF THE RANGE
      • THE REVELER
      • THE UNHEAVENLY TWINS

    Alice Brown

    • Tiverton Tales
      • DOORYARDS
      • A MARCH WIND
      • THE MORTUARY CHEST
      • HORN-O'-THE-MOON
      • A STOLEN FESTIVAL
      • A LAST ASSEMBLING
      • THE WAY OF PEACE
      • THE EXPERIENCE OF HANNAH PRIME
      • HONEY AND MYRRH
      • A SECOND MARRIAGE
      • THE FLAT-IRON LOT
      • THE END OF ALL LIVING

    Nicholas Carter

    • The Crime of the French Cafe and Other Stories
      • The Crime of the French Cafe
      • Nick Carter's Ghost Story
      • The Mystery of St. Agnes' Hospital

    Kate Chopin

    • The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
      • The Awakening
      • Beyond the Bayou
      • Desiree's Baby
      • The Kiss
      • The Locket
      • Ma'ame Pelagie
      • A Pair of Stockings
      • A Reflection
      • A Respectable Woman

    James Fenimore Cooper

    • The Lake Gun
    • New York

    Charles Egbert Craddock

    • The Young Mountaineers
      • THE MYSTERY OF OLD DADDY'S WINDOW
      • 'WAY DOWN IN POOR VALLEY
      • A MOUNTAIN STORM
      • BORROWING A HAMMER
      • THE CONSCRIPTS' HOLLOW
      • A WARNING
      • AMONG THE CLIFFS
      • IN THE "CHINKING"
      • ON A HIGHER LEVEL
      • CHRISTMAS DAY ON OLD WINDY MOUNTAIN

    Stephen Crane

    • A Little Regiment
    • Men, Women, and Boats

    James Oliver Curwood

    • Back to God's Country and Other Stories
    • Back to God's Country
      • The Yellow-Back
      • The Fiddling Man
      • L'ange
      • The Case of Beauvais
      • The Other Man's Wife
      • The Strength of Men
      • The Match
      • The Honor of Her People
      • Bucky Severn
      • His First Penitent
      • Peter God
      • The Mouse

    Richard Harding Davis

    • Billy and the Big Stick
    • A Charmed Life
    • The Consul
    • Episodes in Van Bibber's Life
    • The Frame Up
    • The Log of the Jolly Polly
    • The Lost Road and Other Stories
      • Introduction
      • The Lost Road
      • The Miracle of Las Palmas
      • Evil to Him Who Evil Thinks
      • The Men of Zanzibar
      • The Long Arm
      • The God of Coincidence
      • The Buried Treasure of Cobre
      • The Boy Scout
      • Somewhere in France
      • The Deserter
    • The Make-Believe Man
    • The Man Who Could Not Lose
    • The Messengers
    • Miss Civilization
    • My Buried Treasure
    • The Nature Faker
    • Peace Maneuvers
    • A Question of Latitude
    • Somewhere in France
      • "SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE"
      • PLAYING DEAD
      • THE CARD-SHARP
      • BILLY AND THE BIG STICK
      • THE BOY SCOUT
      • THE FRAME-UP
    • The Spy
    • A Wasted Day

    Francis A. Durivage

    • The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales
      • THE GOLDSMITH'S DAUGHTER.
      • PHILETUS POTTS.
      • THE GONDOLIER.
      • THE SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS.
      • THE THREE BRIDES.
      • CALIFORNIA SPECULATION.
      • THE FRENCH GUARDSMAN.
      • PERSONAL SATISFACTION.
      • THE CASTLE ON THE RHINE.
      • LOVE IN A COTTAGE.
      • THE CAREER OF AN ARTIST.
      • SOUVENIRS OF A RETIRED OYSTERMAN IN ILL HEALTH.
      • THE NEW YEAR'S STOCKINGS.
      • THE OBLIGING YOUNG MAN.
      • EULALIE LASALLE.
      • THE OLD CITY PUMP.
      • THE TWO PORTRAITS.
      • UNCLE OBED.
      • THE CASKET OF JEWELS.
      • ACTING CHARADES.
      • THE GREEN CHAMBER.
      • HE WASN'T A HORSE JOCKEY.
      • FUNERAL SHADOWS.
      • THE LATE ELIAS MUGGS.
      • THE SOLDIER'S WIFE.
      • A KISS ON DEMAND.
      • THE RIFLE SHOT.
      • THE WATER CURE.
      • THE COSSACK.
      • MARRIED FOR MONEY.
      • THE EMIGRANT SHIP.
      • THE LAST OF THE STAGE COACHES.
      • THE SEXTON OF ST. HUBERT'S.
      • JACK WITHERS.
      • THE SILVER HAMMER.
      • THE CHRIST CHURCH CHIMES.
      • THE POLISH SLAVE.
      • OBEYING ORDERS.
      • THE DEACON'S HORSE.
      • THE CONTRABANDISTA.
      • THE STAGE-STRUCK GENTLEMAN.
      • THE DIAMOND STAR.
      • THE GAME OF CHANCE.
      • THE SOLDIER'S SON.
      • TAKING CHARGE OF A LADY.
      • THE NEW YEAR'S BELLS.
      • THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    • Tales of the Jazz Age
      • Introduction
      • My Last Flappers
        • The Jelly-Bean
        • The Camel's Back
        • May Day
        • Porcelain and Pink
      • Fantasies
        • The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
        • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
        • Tarquin of Cheapside
        • "O Russet Witch!"
      • Unclassified Masterpieces
        • The Lees of Happiness
        • Mr. Icky
        • Jemina

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    • The Yellow Wallpaper

    Zane Grey

    • The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories
      • The Redheaded Outfield
      • The Rube
      • The Rube's Pennant
      • The Rube's Honeymoon
      • The Rube's Waterloo
      • Breaking into Fast Company
      • The Knocker
      • The Winning Ball
      • False Colors
      • The Manager of Madden's Hill
      • Old Well-Well

    Joel Chandler Harris

    • Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings
      • LEGENDS OF THE OLD PLANTATION
        • I. Uncle Remus initiates tbe Little Boy
        • II. The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story
        • III.Why Mr. Possum loves Peace
        • IV. How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox
        • V. The Story of the Deluge, and how it came about
        • VI. Mr. Rabbit grossly deceives Mr. Fox
        • VII. Mr. Fox is again victimized .
        • VIII. Mr. Fox is "outdone" by Mr. Buzzard
        • IX. Miss Cow falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit
        • X. Mr. Terrapin appears upon the Scene
        • XI. Mr. Wolf makes a Failure
        • XII. Mr. Fox tackles Old Man Tarrypin
        • XIII. The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf
        • XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs .  .
        • XV. Mr. Fox goes a-hunting, but Mr. Rabbit bags the Game
        • XVl. Old Mr. Rabbit, he's a Good Fisherman
        • XVJI. Mr. Rabbit nibbles up the Butter
        • XVIII. Mr. Rabbit finds his Match at last
        • XIX. The Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow
        • XX. How Mr. Rabbit saved his Meat
        • XXI. Mr. Rabbit meets his Match again
        • XXII. A Story about the Little Rabbits
        • XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear .
        • XXIV. Mr. Bear catches Old Mr. Bull-Frog
        • XXV. How Mr. Rabbit lost his Fine Bushy Tail
        • XXVI. Mr. Terrapin shows his Strength.
        • XXVII Why Mr. Possum has no Hair on his Tail
        • XXVIII. The End of Mr. Bear .
        • XXIX. Mr. Fox gets into Serious Business
        • XXX. How Mr. Rabbit succeeded in raising a Dust.
        • XXXI. A Plantation Witch
        • XXXII. "Jacky-my- Lanteern"
        • XXXIII. Why the Negro is Black
        • XXXIV.-The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox

    Bret Harte

    • The Bell-Ringer of Angel's
      • The Bell-Ringer of Angel's
      • Johnnyboy
      • Young Robin Gray
      • The Sheriff of Sisk You
      • A Rose of Glenbogie
      • The Mystery of the Hacienda
      • Chu Chu
      • My First Book
    • Colonel Starbottle's Client
      • Colonel Starbottle's Client
      • The Postmistress of Laurel Run
      • A Night at "Hays"
      • Johnson's "Old Woman"
      • The New Assistant at Pine Clearing School
      • In a Pioneer Restaurant
      • A Treasure of the Galleon
      • Out of a Pioneer's Trunk
    • A Drift from Redwood Camp
    • Drift from Two Shores
      • The Man on the Beach
      • Two Saints of the Foot-Hills
      • "Jinny"
      • Roger Catron's Friend
      • "Who Was My Quiet Friend?"
      • A Ghost of the Sierras
      • The Hoodlum Band
      • The Man Whose Yoke Was Not Easy
      • My Friend, the Tramp
      • The Man from Solano
      • The Office Seeker
      • A Sleeping-Car Experience
      • Morning on the Avenue
      • With the Entrees
    • Flip: a California Romance
    • Found at Blazing Star
    • From Sand Hill to Pine
      • A Niece of Snapshot Harry's
      • A Treasure of the Redwoods
      • A Belle of Canada City
      • What Happened at the Fonda
      • A Jack and Jill of the Sierras
      • Mr. Bilson's Housekeeper
    • Frontier Stories
      • FLIP: A CALIFORNIA ROMANCE
      • FOUND AT BLAZING STAR
      • IN THE CARQUINEZ WOODS
      • AT THE MISSION OF SAN CARMEL
      • A BLUE-GRASS PENELOPE
      • LEFT OUT ON LONE STAR MOUNTAIN
      • A SHIP OF '49
    • The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Stories
      • The Heritage of Dedlow March
      • A Knight-Errant of the Foot-Hills
      • A Secret of Telegraph Hill
      • Captain Jim's Friend
    • Legends and Tales
      • The Legend of Monte Del Diablo
      • The Adventure of Padre Vicentio
      • The Legend of Devil's Point
      • The Devil and the Broker
      • The Ogress of Silver Land
      • The Ruins of San Francisco
      • At Night at Wingdam
    • The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales
      • Publisher's Note
      • Author's Introduction
      • The Luck of Roaring Camp
      • The Outcasts of Poker Flat
      • Miggles
      • Tennessee's Partner
      • The Idyl of Bed Gulch
      • Brown of Calaveras
      • Condensed Novels:
        • Muck-A-Muck: A Modern Indian Novel
        • Selina Sedilia
        • The Ninety-Nine Guardsmen
        • Miss Mix
        • Mr. Midshipman Breezy: A Naval Officer
        • Guy Heavystone; Or, "Entire:" A Muscular Novel
        • John Jenkins; Or, The Smoker Reformed
        • Fantine. After The French Of Victor Hugo
        • "La Femme." After The French Of M. Michelet
        • The Dweller Of The Threshold
        • N. N.: Being A Novel In The French Paragraphic Style
        • No Title
        • Handsome Is As Handsome Does
        • Lothaw; Or, The Adventures Of A Young Gentleman In Search Of A Religion
        • The Haunted Man: A Christmas Story
        • Terence Denville
        • Mary Mcgillup
        • The Hoodlum Band; Or, The Boy Chief, The Infant Politician, And The Pirate Prodigy
      • Earlier Sketches
        • M'liss: An Idyl Of Red Mountain
        • A Lonely Ride
        • The Man Of No Account
        • Notes By Flood And Field
        • Waiting For The Ship: A Fort Point Idyl
        • A Night At Wingdam
      • Spanish and American Legends
        • The Legend Of Monte Del Diablo
        • The Right Eye Of The Commander
        • The Legend Of Devil's Point
        • The Adventure Of Padre Vicentio: A Legend Of San Francisco
        • The Devil And The Broker: A Medieval Legend
        • The Ogress Of Silver Land; Or, The Diverting History

          • Of Prince Badfellah And Prince Bulleboye
        • The Christmas Gift That Came To Rupert: A Story For Little Soldiers

          •  
    • Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands
      • Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands
      • How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar
      • The Princess Bob and Her Friends
      • The Iliad of Sandy Bar
      • Mr. Thompson's Prodigal
      • The Romance of Madrono Hollow
      • The Poet of Sierra Flat
      • The Christmas Gift that Came to Rupert
    • New Burlesques
      • Rupert the Resembler, after Rupert of Hentzau and Prisoner of Zenda
      • The Stolen Cigar Case by A. Co__n D__le [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
      • Golly and the Christian, or the Minx and the Manxman by H__ll C__ne
      • The Adventures of John Longbowe, Yeoman, Being a Modern-Antique Realistic Romance
      • Dan'l Borem by E. N__s W__t__t
      • Stories Three by R_dy__d K_pl__g [Rudyard Kipling]
      • "Zut-ski" the Problem of a Wicked Feme Sole by M__r__e C__r__lli
    • Openings in the Old Trail
      • A Mercury of the Foot-Hills
      • Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff
      • The Landlord of the Big Flume Hotel
      • A Buckeye Hollow Inheritance
      • The Reincarnation of Smith
      • Lanty Foster's Mistake
      • An Ali Baba of the Sierras
      • Miss Peggy's Proteges
      • The Goddess of Excelsior
    • The Queen of the Pirate Isle
    • Sally Dows
      • Sally Dows
      • The Conspiracy of Mrs. Bunker
      • The Transformation of Buckeye Camp
      • Their Uncle from California
    • Stories in Light and Shadow
      • "Unser Karl"
      • Uncle Jim and Uncle Billy
      • See Yup
      • The Desborough Connections
      • Salomy Jane's Kiss
      • The Man and the Mountain
      • The Passing of Enriquez
    • Tales of Trail and Town
      • The ancestors of Peter Atherly
      • Two Americans
      • The Judgment of Bolinas Plain
      • The Strange Experience of Alkali Dick
      • A Night on the Divide
      • The Youngest Prospector in Calaveras
      • A Tale of Three Truants
    • Trent's Trust and Other Stories
      • Trent's Trust
      • Mr. MacGlowrie's Widow
      • A Ward of Colonel Starbottle
      • Prosper's "Old Mother"
      • The Convalescence of Jack Hamlin
      • A Pupil of Chestnut Ridge
      • Dick Boyle's Business Card
    • Urban Sketches
      • A Venerable Impostor
      • From a Balcony
      • Melons
      • Surprising Adventures of Master Charles Summerton
      • Sidewalkings
      • A Boy's Dog
      • Charitable Reminiscences
      • "Seeing the Steamer Off"
      • Neighborhoods I Have Moved From
      • My Suburban Residence
      • On a Vulgar Little Boy

    Julian Hawthorne (see also Lock and Key Library, under Anthologies)

    • David Poindexter's Disappearance and Other Tales
      • David Poindexter's Disappearance
      • Ken's Mystery
      • "When Half-Gods Go, the Gods Arrive"
      • "Set Not Thy Foot on Graves"
      • My Friend Paton

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    • The Dolliver Romance and Other Pieces
      • A Book of Autographs
      • Browne's Folly
      • Dr. Bullivant
      • Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man
      • An Old Woman's Tale
      • Other Tales and Sketches
        •  My Visit To Niagara
        • The Antique Ring
        • Graves And Goblins
      • Sketches from Memory
        •  The Inland Port.
        •  Rochester .
        •  A Night Scene
      • Time's Portraiture
    • From Mosses from an Old Manse
      • The Birthmark
      • Young Goodman Brown
      • Rappaccini's Daughter
      • Mrs. Bullfrog
      • The Celestial Railroad
      • The Procession of Life
      • Feathertop: A Moralized Legend
      • Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent
      • Drowne's Wooden Image
      • Roger Malvin's Burial
      • The Artist of the Beautiful
    • The Great Stone Face
      • Introduction
      • The Great Stone Face
      • The Ambitious Guest
      • The Great Carbuncle
      • Sketches from Memory
    • The Snow Image
      • The Snow Image: A Childish Miracle
      • The Great Stone Face
      • Ethan Brand
      • The Canterbury Pilgrims
      • The Devil in Manuscript
      • My Kinsman, Major Molineux
    • Twice-Told Tales
      • The Gray Champion
      • The Wedding Knell
      • The Minister's Black Veil
      • The May-Pole of Merry Mount
      • The Gentle Boy
      • Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe
      • Wakefield
      • The Great Carbuncle
      • David Swan
      • The Hollow of the Three Hills
      • Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
      • Legends of the Province House
      • The Ambitious Guest
      • Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure
      • The Shaker Bridal
      • Endicott and the Red Cross
    • Twice-Told Tales, edition of 1889
      • THE GRAY CHAMPION
      • SUNDAY AT HOME
      • THE WEDDING-KNELL
      • THE MINISTER'S BLACK VEIL
      • THE MAYPOLE OF MERRY MOUNT
      • THE GENTLE BOY
      • MR. HIGGINBOTHAM'S CATASTROPHE
      • LITTLE ANNIE'S RAMBLE
      • WAKEFIELD
      • A RILL FROM THE TOWN PUMP
      • THE GREAT CARBUNCLE
      • THE PROPHETIC PICTURES
      • DAVID SWAN
      • SIGHTS FROM A STEEPLE
      • THE HOLLOW OF THE THREE HILLS
      • THE TOLL-GATHERER'S DAY
      • THE VISION OF THE FOUNTAIN
      • FANCY'S SHOW-BOX
      • DR. HEIDEGGER'S EXPERIMENT
      • LEGENDS OF THE PROVINCE HOUSE:
        •     I.--HOWE'S MASQUERADE
        •    II.--EDWARD RANDOLPH'S PORTRAIT
        •   III.--LADY ELEANORE'S MANTLE
        •    IV.--OLD ESTHER DUDLEY
      • THE HAUNTED MIND
      • THE VILLAGE UNCLE
      • THE AMBITIOUS GUEST
      • THE SISTER-YEARS
      • SNOWFLAKES
      • THE SEVEN VAGABONDS
      • THE WHITE OLD MAID
      • PETER GOLDTHWAITE'S TREASURE
      • CHIPPINGS WITH A CHISEL
      • THE SHAKER BRIDAL
      • NIGHT-SKETCHES
      • ENDICOTT AND THE RED CROSS
      • THE LILY'S QUEST
      • FOOTPRINTS ON THE SEASHORE
      • EDWARD FANE'S ROSEBUD
      • THE THREEFOLD DESTINY
    • A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys
      • The Gorgon's Head
      • The Miraculous Pitcher
      • The Paradise of Children
      • The Three Golden Apples

    O. Henry

    • Cabbages and Kings
      • The Proem
      • "Fox-in-the-Morning"
      • The Lotus and the Bottle
      • Smith
      • Caught
      • Cupid's Exile Number Two
      • The Phonograph and the Graft
      • Money Maze
      • The Admiral
      • The Flag Paramount
      • The Shamrock and the Palm
      • The Remnants of the Code
      • Shoes
      • Ships
      • Masters of Arts
      • Dickey
      • Rouge et Noir
      • Two Recalls
      • The Vitagraphoscope

        •  
    • The Four Million
      • Tobin's Palm
      • The Gift of the Magi
      • A Cosmopolite in a Cafe
      • Between Rounds
      • The Skylight Room
      • A Service of Love
      • The Coming-Out of Maggie
      • Man about Town
      • The Cop and the Anthem
      • An Adjustment of Nature
      • Memoirs of a Yellow Dog
      • The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein
      • Mammon and the Archer
      • Springtime a la Carte
      • The Green Door
      • From the Cabby's Seat
      • An Unfinished Story
      • The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock
      • Sisters of the Golden Circle
      • The Romance of a Busy Broker
      • After Twenty Years
      • Lost on Dress Parade
      • By Courier
      • The Furnished Room
      • The Brief Debut of Tildy
    • The Gentle Grafter
      •  The Octopus Marooned
      •  Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet
      • Modern Rural Sports
      • The Chair of Philanthromathematics
      • The Hand That Riles the World
      • The Exact Science of Matrimony
      • A Midsummer Masquerade
      • Shearing the Wolf
      • Innocents of Broadway
      • Conscience in Art
      • The Man Higher Up
      • A Tempered Wind
      • Hostages to Momus
      • The Ethics of Pig
    • Heart of the West
      • Hearts and Crosses
      • The Ransom of Mack
      • Telemachus, Friend
      • The Handbook of Hymen
      • The Pimienta Pancakes
      • Seats of the Haughty
      • Hygeia at the Solito
      • An Afternoon Miracle
      • The Higher Abdication
      • Cupid a la Carte
      • The Caballero's Way
      • The Sphinx Apple
      • The Missing Chord
      • A Call Loan
      • The Princess and the Puma
      • The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnson
      • Christmas by Injunction
      • A Chaparral Prince
      • The Reformation of Calliope
    • Options
      • "The Rose of Dixie"
      • The Third Ingredient
      • The Hiding of Black Bill
      • Schools and Schools
      • Thimble, Thimble
      • Buried Treasure
      • To Him Who Waits
      • He Also Serves
      • The Moment of Victory
      • The Head-Hunter
      • No Story
      • The Higher Pragmatism
      • Best-Seller
      • Rus in Urbe
      • A Poor Rule
    • Roads of Destiny
      • Roads of Destiny
      • The Guardian of the Accolade
      • The Discounters of Money
      •  The Enchanted Profile
      • "Next to Reading Matter"
      • Art and the Bronco
      • Phoebe
      • A Double-dyed Deceiver
      • The Passing of Black Eagle
      • A Retrieved Reformation
      • Cherchez la Femme
      • Friends in San Rosario
      • The Fourth in Salvador
      • The Emancipation of Billy
      • The Enchanted Kiss
      • A Departmental Case
      • The Renaissance at Charleroi
      • On Behalf of the Management
      • Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking
      • The Halberdier of the Little Rheinschloss
      • Two Renegades
      • The Lonesome Road
    • Sixes and Sevens
      • The Last of the Troubadours
      • The Sleuths
      • Witches' Loaves
      • The Pride of the Cities
      • Holding up a Train
      • Ulysses and the Dogman
      • The Champion of the Weather
      • Makes the Whole World Kin
      • At Arms with Morpheus
      • The Ghost of a Chance
      • Jimmy Hayes and Muriel
      • The Door of Unrest
      • The Duplicity of Hargraves
      • Let me Feel your Pulse
      • October and June
      • The Church with an Overshot Wheel
      • New York by Campfire Light
      • The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes
      • The Lady Higher Up
      • The Greater Coney
      • Law and Order
      • Transformation of Martin Burney
      • The Caliph and the Cad
      • The Diamond of Kali
      • The Day We Celebrate
    • Strictly Business
      • Strictly Business
      • The Gold that Glittered
      • Babes in the Jungle
      • The Day Resurgent
      • The Fifth Wheel
      • The Poet and the Peasant
      • The Robe of Peace
      • The Girl and the Graft
      • The Call of the Tame
      • The Unknown Quantity
      • The Thing's the Play
      • A Ramble in Aphasia
      • A Municipal Report
      • Psyche and the Pskyscraper
      • A Bird of Bagdad
      • Compliments of the Season
      • A Night in New Arabia
      • The Girl and the Habit
      • Proof of the Pudding
      • Past One at Rodney's
      • The Venturers
      • The Duel
      • "What You Want"
    • The Trimmed Lamp
      • The Trimmed Lamp
      • A Madison Square Arabian Night
      • The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball
      • The Pendulum
      • Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen
      • The Assessor of Success
      • The Buyer from Cactus City
      • The Badge of Policeman O'Room
      • Brickdust Row
      • The Making of a New Yorker
      • Vanity and Some Sables
      • The Social Triangle
      • The Purple Dress
      • The Foreign Policy of Company 99
      • The Lost Blend
      • A Harlem Tragedy
      • "The Guilty Party" -- an East Side Tragedy
      • According to Their Lights
      • A Midsummer Knight's Dream
      • The Last Leaf
      • The Count and the Wedding Guest
      • The Country of Elusion
      • The Ferry of Unfulfilment
      • The Tale of a Tainted Tenner
      • Elsie in New York
    • The Voice of the City
      • The Voice of the City
      • The Complete Life of Johns Hopkins
      • A Lickpenny Lover
      • Dougherty' Eye-Opener
      • Little Speck in Garnered Fruit
      • The Harbinger
      • While the Auto Waits
      • Comedy in Rubber
      • One Thousand Dollars
      • Defeat of the City
      • Shocks of Doom
      • Plutonian Fire
      • Nemesis and the Candyman
      • Squaring the Circle
      • Roses, Ruses, and Romance
      • Four Roses
      • City of Dreadful Night
      • Easter of the Soul
      • Fool-Killer
      • Transients in Arcadia
      • Rathskeller and the Rose
      • Clarion Call
      • Extradited from Bohemia
      • Philistine in Bohemia
      • From Each According to His Ability
      • Memento
    • Waifs and Strays
      • The Red Roses of Tonia
      • Round The Circle
      • The Rubber Plant's Story
      • Out of Nazareth
      • Confessions of a Humorist
      • The Sparrows in Madison Square
      • Hearts and Hands
      • The Cactus
      • The Detective Detector
      • The Dog and the Playlet
      • A Little Talk About Mobs
      • The Snow Man
    • Whirligigs
      • The World and the Door
      • The Theory and the Hound
      • Hypotheses of Failure
      • Calloway's Code
      • A Matter of Mean Elevation
      • "Girl"
      • Sociology in Serge and Straw
      • The Ransom of Red Chief
      • Two Deperate Men
      • The Marry Month of May
      • A Technical Error
      • Suite Homes and their Romance
      • The Whirligig of Life
      • A Sacrifice Hit
      • The Roads We Take
      • A Blackjack Bargainer
      • The Song and the Sergeant
      • One Dollar's Worth
      • A Newspaper Story
      • Tommy's Burglar
      • A Chaparral Christmas Gift
      • A Little Local Color
      • Georgia's Ruling
      • Blind Man's Holiday
      • Madame Bo-Peep of the Ranches

    Washington Irving

    • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
    • Little Britain
    • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
      • Preface
      • The Author's Account of Himself
      • The Voyage
      • Roscoe
      • The Wife
      • Rip Van Winkle
      • English Writers on America
      • Rural Life in England
      • The Broken Heart
      • The Art of Book-making
      • A Royal Poet
      • The Country Church
      • The Widow and her Son
      • A Sunday in London
      • The Boar's Head Tavern
      • The Mutability of Literature
      • Rural Funerals
      • The Inn Kitchen
      • The Spectre Bridegroom
      • Westminster Abbey
      • Christmas
      • The Stage-Coach
      • Christmas Eve
      • Christmas Day
      • The Christmas Dinner
      • London Antiques
      • Little Britain
      • Statford-on-Avon
      • Traits of Indian Character
      • Philip of Pokanoket

    Helen Hunt Jackson

    • Saxe Holm's Stories, 1873
      • Draxy Miller's Dowry
      • The Elder's Wife
      • Whose Wife Was She?
      • The One-Legged Dancers
      • How One Woman Kept Her Husband
      • Esther Wynn's Love-Letters

    Sarah Orne Jewett

    • Deephaven and Selected Stories and Sketches
      • DEEPHAVEN
      • AN AUTUMN HOLIDAY (1881)
      • FROM A MOURNFUL VILLAGER (1881)
      • AN OCTOBER RIDE (1881)
      • TOM'S HUSBAND (1884)
      • MISS DEBBY'S NEIGHBORS (1884)

    Henry James

    • The Altar of the Dead
    • The Author of Beltraffio
    • The Beast in the Jungle
    • The Beldonald Holbein
    • A Bundle of Letters
    • The Chaperone
    • The Coxon Fund
    • Daisy Miller
    • The Death of the Lion
    • Eugene Pickering
    • The Figure in the Carpet
    • Glasses
    • Greville Fane
    • The Jolly Corner
    • The Madonna of the Future
    • The Marriages
    • Nona Vincent
    • Pandora
    • The Patagonia
    • The Pension Beaurepas
    • The Point of View
    • The Pupil
    • The Real Thing
    • Sir Dominick Ferrand
    • Some Short Stories
      • Brooksmith
      • The Real Thing
      • The Story of It
      • Flickerbridge
      • Mrs. Medwin

    Florence Finch Kelly

    • Emerson's Wie and Other Western Stories
      • EMERSON'S WIFE
      • COLONEL KATE'S PROTEGEE
      • THE KID OF APACHE TEJU
      • A BLAZE ON PARD HUFF
      • HOW COLONEL KATE WON HER SPURS
      • HOLLYHOCKS
      • THE RISE, FALL, AND REDEMPTION OF JOHNSON SIDES
      • A PIECE OF WRECKAGE
      • THE STORY OF A CHINEE KID
      • OUT OF SYMPATHY
      • AN OLD ROMAN OF MARIPOSA
      • OUT OF THE MOUTH OF BABES
      • POSEY
      • A CASE OF THE INNER IMPERATIVE

    Joseph Lincoln

    • Cape Cod Stories
      • Two Pairs of Shoes
      • The Count and the Manager
      • The South Shore Weather Bureau
      • The Dog Star
      • The Mare and the Motor
      • The Mark on the Door
      • The Love of Lobelia 'ankins
      • The Meanness of Rosy
      • The Antiquers
      • His Native Heath
      • Jonesy

    Jack London

    • Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories chosen by Franklin Mathiews
      • BROWN WOLF
      • THAT SPOT
      • TRUST
      • ALL GOLD CANYON
      • THE STORY OF KEESH
      • NAM-BOK THE UNVERACIOUS
      • YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF
      • MAKE WESTING
      • THE HEATHEN
      • THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY
      • "JUST MEAT"
      • A NOSE FOR THE KING
    • DUTCH COURAGE
      • DUTCH COURAGE
      • TYPHOON OFF THE COAST OF JAPAN
      • THE LOST POACHER
      • THE BANKS OF THE SACRAMENTO
      • CHRIS FARRINGTON: ABLE SEAMAN
      • TO REPEL BOARDERS
      • AN ADVENTURE IN THE UPPER SEA
      • BALD-FACE
      • IN YEDDO BAY
      • WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE
    • The Faith of Men
      • A Relic of the Pliocene
      • A Hyperborean Brew
      • The Faith of Men
      • Too Much Gold
      • The One Thousand Dozen
      • The Marriage of Lit-lit
      • Batard
      • The Story of Jees Uck
    • The Game
    • The House of Pride and Other Tales from Hawaii
      • The House of Pride
      • Koolau the Leper
      • Good-bye, Jack
      • Aloha Oe
      • Chun Ah Chun
      • The Sheriff of Kona
      • Jack London by Himself
    • The Human Drift
      • The Human Drift
      • Small-Boat Sailing
      • Four Horses and a Sailor
      • Nothing that Ever Came to Anything
      • That Dead Men Rise up Never
    • Lost Face
      • Lost Face
      • Trust
      • To Build a Fire
      • That Spot
      • Flush of Gold
      • The Passing of Marcus O'Brien
      • The Wit of Porportuk
    • Moon-Face and Other Stories
      • Moon-Face
      • The Leopard Man's Story
      • Local Color
      • Amateur Night
      • The Minions of Midas
      • The Shadow and the Flash
      • All Gold Canyon
      • Planchette
    • The Night-Born
      • The Night-Born
      • The Madness of John Harned
      • When the World Was Young
      • The Benefit of the Doubt
      • Winged Blackmail
      • Bunches of Knuckles
      • War
      • Under the Deck Awnings
      • To Kill a Man
      • The Mexican
    • On the Makaloa Mat: Island Tales
      • On the Makaloa Mat
      • The Bones of Kahekili
      • When Alice Told her Soul
      • Shin-Bones
      • The Water Baby
      • The Tears of Ah Kim
      • The Kanaka Surf
    • The Road
      • CONFESSION
      • HOLDING HER DOWN
      • PICTURES
      • "PINCHED"
      • THE PEN
      • HOBOES THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT
      • ROAD-KIDS AND GAY-CATS
      • TWO THOUSAND STIFFS
      • BULLS
    • South Sea Tales
      • The House of Mapuhi
      • The Whale Tooth
      • Mauki
      • "Yah! Yah! Yah!"
      • The Heathen
      • The Terrible Solomons
      • The Inevitable White Man
      • The Seed of McCoy
    • Stories of Ships and the Sea
      •  Chris Farrington: Able Seaman
      •  Typhoon Off the Coast of Japan
      •  The Lost Poacher
      •  The Banks of the Sacramento
      •  In Yeddo Bay
    • The Strength of the Strong
      • The Strength of the Strong
      • South of the Slot
      • The Unparalleled Invasion
      • The Enemy of All the World
      • The Dream of Debs
      • The Sea-Farmer
      • Samuel
    • Tales of the Fish Patrol
      • White and Yellow
      • King of the Greeks
      • A Raid on the Oyster Pirates
      • Siege of the "Lancashire" Queen
      • Charley's Coup
      • Demetrios Contos
      • The Yellow Handkerchief
    • Tales of the Klondyke
      • The God of His Fathers
      • The Great Interrogation
      • Which Make Men Remember
      • Siwash
      • The Man with the Gash
      • Jan, the Unrepentant
      • Grit of Women
      • Where the Trail Forks
      • A Daughter of the Aurora
      • At the Rainbow's End
      • The Scorn of Women
    • When God Laughs and Other Stories
      • When God Laughs
      • The Apostate
      • A Wicked Woman
      • Just Meat
      • Created He Them
      • The Chinago
      • Make Westing
      • Semper Idem
      • A Nose for the King
      • The "Francis Spaight"
      • A Curious Fragment
      • A Piece of Steak

    Herman Melville

    • Bartleby, the Scrivener
    • I and My Chimney
    • Piazza Tales
      • THE PIAZZA
      • BARTLEBY
      • BENITO CERENO
      • THE LIGHTNING-ROD MAN
      • THE ENCANTADAS; OR, ENCHANTED ISLANDS
      • THE BELL-TOWER

    John Ames Mitchell (1845-1918)

    • The Last American

    Frank Norris

    • A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories
      • A Deal in Wheat
      • The Wife of Chino
      • A Bargain with Peg-Leg
      • The Passing of Cock-Eye Blacklock
      • A Memorandum of Sudden Death
      • Two Hearts That Beat as One
      • The Dual Personality of Slick Dick Nickerson
      • The Ship That Saw a Ghost
      • The Ghost in the Crosstrees
      • The Riding of Felipe

    Edgar Allan Poe

    • Volume 1 of the Raven Edition of his works
      • Edgar Allan Poe, An Appreciation
      • Life of Poe, by James Russell Lowell
      • Death of Poe, by N. P. Willis
      • The Unparalled Adventures of One Hans Pfall
      • The Gold Bug
      • Four Beasts in One
      • The Murders in the Rue Morgue
      • The Mystery of Marie Roget
      • The Balloon Hoax
      • MS. Found in a Bottle
      • The Oval Portrait
    • Volume 2
      • The Purloined Letter
      • The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade
      • A Descent into the Maelström
      • Von Kempelen and his Discovery
      • Mesmeric Revelation
      • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
      • The Black Cat
      • The Fall of the House of Usher
      • Silence -- a Fable
      • The Masque of the Red Death
      • The Cask of Amontillado
      • The Imp of the Perverse
      • The Island of the Fay
      • The Assignation
      • The Pit and the Pendulum
      • The Premature Burial
      • The Domain of Arnheim
      • Landor's Cottage
      • William Wilson
      • The Tell-Tale Heart
      • Berenice
      • Eleonora
    • Volume 3
      • Narrative of A. Gordon Pym
      • Ligeia
      • Morella
      • A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
      • The Spectacles
      • King Pest
      • Three Sundays in a Week
    • Volume 4
      • The Devil in the Belfry
      • Lionizing
      • X-ing a Paragrab
      • Metzengerstein
      • The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
      • How to Write a Blackwood article
      • A Predicament
      • Mystification
      • Diddling
      • The Angel of the Odd
      • Mellonta Tauta
      • The Duc de l'Omelette
      • The Oblong Box
      • Loss of Breath
      • The Man That Was Used Up
      • The Business Man
      • The Landscape Garden
      • Maelzel's Chess-Player
      • The Power of Words
      • The Colloquy of Monas and Una
      • The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
      • Shadow.--A Parable
    • Volume 5
      • Philosophy of Furniture
      • A Tale of Jerusalem
      • The Sphinx
      • Hop Frog
      • The Man of the Crowd
      • Never Bet the Devil Your Head
      • Thou Art the Man
      • Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling
      • Bon-Bon
      • Some words with a Mummy

    Eleanor Porter

    • Tangled Threads
      • A DELAYED HERITAGE
      •   THE FOLLY OF WISDOM
      •   CRUMBS
      •   A FOUR-FOOTED FAITH AND A TWO
      •   A MATTER OF SYSTEM
      •   ANGELUS
      •   THE APPLE OF HER EYE
      •   A MUSHROOM OF COLLINGSVILLE
      •   THAT ANGEL BOY
      •   THE LADY IN BLACK
      •   THE SAVING OF DAD
      •   MILLIONAIRE MIKE'S THANKSGIVING
      •   WHEN MOTHER FELL ILL
      •   THE GLORY AND THE SACRIFICE
      •   THE DALTONS AND THE LEGACY
      •   THE LETTER
      •   THE INDIVISIBLE FIVE
      •   THE ELEPHANT'S BOARD AND KEEP
      •   A PATRON OF ART
      •   WHEN POLLY ANN PLAYED SANTA CLAUS

    Eugenia Potts

  • Idle Hour Stories
      • A THRILLING EXPERIENCE
      • A CLUSTER OF RIPE FRUIT
      • THE GHOST AT CRESTDALE
      • HER CHRISTMAS GIFT
      • IN A PULLMAN CAR
      • IN OLD KENTUCKY
      • HIS GRATITUDE
      • THE SINGER'S CHRISTMAS
      • TURNING THE TABLES
      • HOW SHE HELPED HIM
      • THE IRON BOX
      • THE GIRL FARMERS
      • PROVING A HEART
      • HEZEKIAH'S WOOING
      • A SUMMER DAISY
      • TREESA
      • MY FIRST JURY CASE
      • THREE VISITS
      • IN EASTER DAWN
      • IN THE MAMMOTH CAVE

    Charles Roberts

    • Earth's Enigmas
      • Do Seek their Meat from God
      • The Perdu
      • "The Young Ravens that Call upon Him"
      • Within Sound of the Saws
      • The Butt of the Camp
      • In the Accident Ward
      • The Romance of an Ox-Team
      • A Tragedy of the Tides
      • At the Rough-and-Tumble Landing
      • An Experience of Jabez Batterpole
      • The Stone Dog
      • The Barn on the Marsh
      • Captain Joe and Jamie
      • Strayed
      • The Eye of Gluskap

    Ernest Thompson Seton

    • Johnny Bear and Other Stories, from Lives of the Hunted
      • JOHNNY BEAR
        • His Whole Appearance Suggested Dyspepsia
        • But Johnny Wanted to See
        • A Syrup-tin Kept Him Happy for a Long Time
      • TITO: THE STORY OF THE COYOTE THAT LEARNED HOW
        • Coyotito, the Captive
        • They Considered Themselves Acquainted
        • Their Evening Song
        • Tito and her Brood
        • Tito's Race for Life
      • WHY THE CHICKADEE GOES CRAZY ONCE A YEAR

    Harriet Beecher Stowe

    • Queer Little Folks
      • Hen that Hatched Ducks
      • The Nutcrackers of Nutcracker Lodge
      • The History of Tip-Top
      • Miss Katy-Did and Miss Cricket
      • Mother Magpie's Mischief
      • The Squirrels that live in a House
      • Hum, the Son of Buz
      • Our Country Neighbours
      • The Diverting History of Little Whiskey

    Ruth McInery Stuart

    • Moriah's Mourning and Other Stories
      • MORIAH'S MOURNING
      • AN OPTICAL DILEMMA
      • THE SECOND MRS. SLIMM
      • APOLLO BELVEDERE. A CHRISTMAS EPISODE OF THE PLANTATION
      • NEAREST OF KIN (ON THE PLANTATION)
      • THE DEACON'S MEDICINE
      • TWO GENTLEMEN OF LEISURE
      • THE REV. JORDAN WHITE'S THREE GLANCES
      • LADY. A MONOLOGUE OF THE COW-PEN
      • A PULPIT ORATOR
      • AN EASTER SYMBOL. A MONOLOGUE OF THE PLANTATION
      • CHRISTMAS AT THE TRIMBLES'
      • A MINOR CHORD

    Mark Twain

    • 1601 or Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors
    • The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
      • The $30,000 Bequest
      • A Dog's Tale
      • Was It Heaven?  Or Hell?
      • A Cure for the Blues
      • The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant
      • The Californian's Tale
      • A Helpless Situation
      • A Telephonic Conversation
      • Edward Mills and George Benton:  A Tale
      • The Five Boons of Life
      • The First Writing-machines
      • Italian without a Master
      • Italian with Grammar
      • A Burlesque Biography
      • How to Tell a Story
      • General Washington's Negro Body-servant
      • Wit Inspirations of the "Two-year-olds"
      • An Entertaining Article
      • A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury
      • Amended Obituaries
      • A Monument to Adam
      • A Humane Word from Satan
      • Introduction to "The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English"
      • Advice to Little Girls
      • Post-mortem Poetry
      • The Danger of Lying in Bed
      • Portrait of King William III
      • Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?
      • Extracts from Adam's Diary
      • Eve's Diary
    • Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories
      • The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton
      • On the Decay of the Art of Lying
      • About Magnanimous-Incident Literature
      • Punch, Brothers, Punch
      • The Great Revolution in Pitcairn
      • The Canvasser's Tale
      • An Encounter with an Interviewer
      • Paris Notes
      • Legend of Sagenfeld, in Germany
      • Speech on the Babies
      • Speech on the Weather
      • Concerning the American Language
      • Rogers
    • The Carnival of Crime in Connecticut
    • The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches
      • The Curious Republic of Gondour
      • A Memory
      • Introductory to "Memoranda"
      • About Smells
      • A Couple of Sad Experiences
      • Dan Murphy
      • The "Tournament" in A.D. 1870
      • Curious Relic for Sale
      • A Reminiscence fo the Back Settlements
      • A Royal Compliment
      • The Approaching Epidemic
      • The Tone-Imparting Committee
      • Our Precious Lunatic
      • The European Wars
      • The Wild Man Interviewed
      • Last Words of Great Men
    • A Dog's Tale
    • A Double Barrelled Detective
    • Extracts from Adam's Diary
    • Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
    • Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again
    • A Horse's Tale
    • How to Tell a Story and Others
      • How to Tell a Story
      • The Wounded Soldier
      • The Golden Arm
      • Mental Telegraphy Again
      • The Invalid's Story
    • The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
      • The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
      • My First Lie, and How I Got Out of IT
      • The Esquimaux Maiden's Romance
      • Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy
      • Is He Living or Is He Dead?
      • My Debut as a Literary Person
      • At the Appetite-Cure
      • Concerning the Jews
      • From the 'London Times' of 1904
      • About Play-Acting
      • Travelling with a Reformer
      • Diplomatic Pay and Clothes
      • Luck
      • The Captain's Story
      • Stirring Times in Austria
      • My Military Campaign
      • Meisterschaft
      • My Boyhood Dreams
      • To the Above Old People
      • In Memoriam -- Olivia Susan Clemens
    • The Mysterious Stranger
      • The Mysterious Stranger
      • A Fable
      • Hunting the Deceitful Turkey
      • The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm
    • Rambling Idle Excursion
    • The Stolen White Elephant
    • Those Extraordinary Twins
    • Tom Sawyer Abroad
    • Tom Sawyer, Detective

    M.T.W.

    • Connor Magan's Luck
      •   Connor Magan's Luck
      •    Why Mammy Delphy's Baby Was Named Grief
      •    Sammy Sealskin's Enemy
      •    Nannette's Live Baby
      •    Brothers For Sale
      •    A Story of a Clock
      •    Naughty Zay
      •    The Legend of the Salt Sea
      •    The Man with the Straw Hat
      •    Ruffles and Puffs
      •    Sugar River
      •    A Pioneer "Wide Awake"
      •    Surprised
      •    April Fools and Other Fools

    Edith Wharton

    • The Descent of Man and Other Stories
      • The Descent of Man
      • The Other Two
      • Expiation
      • The Lady's Maid's Bell
      • The Mission of Jane
      • The Reckoning
      • The Letter
      • The Dilettante
      • The Quicksand
      • A Venetian Night's Entertainment

        •  
    • Early Short Fiction (first two of ten volumes)
      • Volume One:
        • Kerfol (1916)
        • Mrs. Manstey's View (1891)
        • The Bolted Door (1909)
        • The Dilettante (1903)
        • The House of the Dead Hand (1904)
      • Volume Two:
        • Afterward (1910)
        • The Fulness of Life (1893)
        • A Venetian Night's Entertainment (1903)
        • Xingu (1911)
        • The Verdict (1908)
        • The Reckoning (1902)

    John Greenleaf Whittier

    • The Boy Captives: An Incident of the Indian War of 1695
    • Yankee Gypsies

    Mary E. Wilkins

    • Young Lucretia and Other Stories
      • YOUNG LUCRETIA
      • HOW FIDELIA WENT TO THE STORE
      • ANN MARY; HER TWO THANKSGIVINGS
      • ANN LIZY'S PATCHWORK
      • THE LITTLE PERSIAN PRINCESS
      • WHERE THE CHRISTMAS-TREE GREW
      • WHERE SARAH JANE'S DOLL WENT
      • SEVENTOES' GHOST
      • LITTLE MIRANDY, AND HOW SHE EARNED HER SHOES
      • A PARSNIP STEW
      • THE DICKEY BOY
      • A SWEET-GRASS BASKET
      • MEHITABLE LAMB

    Owen Wister

    • Mother
    • Padre Ignacio
    • Philosophy 4: a Story of Harvard University

    Arabic

    Richard Burton (translator)

    • Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights, complete), 169 stories told over the course of 1001 nights
      • Volume 1
      • Volume 2
      • Volume 3
      • Volume 4
      • Volume 5
      • Volume 6
      • Volume 7
      • Volume 8
      • Volume 9
      • Volume 10
      • Supplement Volume1
      • Supplement Volume 2
      • Supplement Volume 3
      • Supplement Volume 4
      • Supplement Volume 5
      • Supplement Volume 6

    Australian

    Henry Lawson

  • Over the Slip Rails, stories including:
      • The Shanty-Keeper's Wife
      • A Gentleman Sharper and Steelman Sharper
      • An Incident at Stiffner's
      • The Hero of Redclay
      • The Darling River
      • A Case for the Oracle
      • A Daughter of Maoriland
      • New Year's Night
      • Black Joe
      • They Wait on the Wharf in Black
      • Seeing the Last of You
      • Two Boys at Grinder Brothers'
      • The Selector's Daughter
      • Mitchell on the "Sex" and Other "Problems"
      • The Master's Mistake
      • The Story of the Oracle
      • Glossary

    Andrew Barton `Banjo' Paterson

    • Three Elephant Power and Other Stories
      • Three Elephant Power
      • The Oracle
      • The Cast-iron Canvasser
      • The Merino Sheep
      • The Bullock
      • White-when-he's-wanted
      • The Downfall of Mulligan's
      • The Amateur Gardener
      • Thirsty Island
      • Dan Fitzgerald Explains
      • The Cat
      • Sitting in Judgment
      • The Dog
      • The Dog -- as a Sportsman
      • Concerning a Steeplechase Rider
      • Victor Second
      • Concerning a Dog-fight
      • His Masterpiece
      • Done for the Double

    Belgian

    Camille Lemonier

    • Saint Nicholas Eve

    Maurice Maeterlink

    • The Massacre of the Innocent

    British, Welsh, and Scottish

    Collections

    • Best British Short Stories of 1922 edited by Edward O'Brien and John Connors
      • WHERE WAS WYCH STREET? By Stacy Aumonier
      • THE LOOKING-GLASS. By J.D. Beresford
      • THE OLIVE. By Algernon Blackwood
      • ONCE A HERO. By Harold Brighouse
      • "THE PENSIONER." By William Caine
      • BROADSHEET BALLAD. By A.E. Coppard
      • THE CHRISTMAS PRESENT. By Richmal Crompton
      • SEATON'S AUNT. By Walter de la Mare
      • THE REAPER. By Dorothy Easton
      • THE SONG. By May Edginton
      • A HEDONIST. By John Galsworthy
      • THE BAT AND BELFRY INN. By Alan Graham
      • THE LIE. By Holloway Horn
      • A GIRL IN IT. By Rowland Kenney
      • THE BACKSTAIRS OF THE MIND. By Rosamond Langbridge
      • THE BIRTH OF A MASTERPIECE. By Lucas Malet
      • "GENIUS." By Elinor Mordaunt
      • THE DEVIL TO PAY. By Max Pemberton
      • EMPTY ARMS. By Roland Pertwee
      • LENA WRACE. By May Sinclair
      • THE DICE THROWER. By Sidney Southgate
      • THE STRANGER WOMAN. By G.B. Stern
      • THE WOMAN WHO SAT STILL. By Parry Truscott
      • MAJOR WILBRAHAM. By Hugh Walpole
    • The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1, 1910
      • APPARITION OF MRS. VEAL. By Daniel Defoe (1661-1731)
      • THE MYSTERIOUS BRIDE. By James Hogg (1770-1835)
      • THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER. By Washington Irving (1783-1859)
      • DR. HEIDEGGER'S EXPERIMENT. By Nathaniel Hawthorne (1807-1864)
      • THE PURLOINED LETTER. By Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
      • RAB AND HIS FRIENDS. By Dr. John Brown (1810-1882)
      • THE BOOTS AT THE HOLLY-TREE INN. By Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
      • A STORY OF SEVEN DEVILS. By Frank R. Stockton. (1834-1902)
      • A DOG'S TALE. By Mark Twain (1835)
      • THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT. By Bret Harte (1839-1902)
      • THE THREE STRANGERS. By Thomas Hardy (1840)
      • JULIA BRIDE. By Henry James (1843)
      • A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT. By Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
    • Scottish Ghost Stories by Elliott O'Donnell
      • THE DEATH BOGLE OF THE CROSS ROADS, AND THE
              INEXTINGUISHABLE CANDLE OF THE OLD WHITE HOUSE,
              PITLOCHRY
      • THE TOP ATTIC IN PRINGLE'S MANSION, EDINBURGH
      • THE BOUNDING FIGURE OF "---- HOUSE," NEAR BUCKINGHAM TERRACE, EDINBURGH
      • JANE OF GEORGE STREET, EDINBURGH
      • THE SALLOW-FACED WOMAN OF NO. -- FORREST ROAD,  EDINBURGH
      • THE PHANTOM REGIMENT OF KILLIECRANKIE
      • "PEARLIN' JEAN" OF ALLANBANK
      • THE DRUMMER OF CORTACHY
      • THE ROOM BEYOND. AN ACCOUNT OF THE HAUNTINGS OF  HENNERSLEY, NEAR AYR

        • "---- HOUSE," NEAR BLYTHSWOOD SQUARE, GLASGOW. THE HAUNTED BATH
      • THE CHOKING GHOST OF "---- HOUSE," NEAR SANDYFORD PLACE, GLASGOW
      • THE GREY PIPER AND THE HEAVY COACH OF DONALDGOWERIE  HOUSE, PERTH
      • THE FLOATING HEAD OF THE BENRACHETT INN, NEAR THE PERTH ROAD, DUNDEE
      • THE HAUNTINGS OF "---- HOUSE," IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF THE GREAT WESTERN ROAD, ABERDEEN
      • THE WHITE LADY OF ROWNAM AVENUE, NEAR STIRLING
      • THE GHOST OF THE HINDOO CHILD, OR THE HAUNTINGS OF  THE WHITE DOVE HOTEL, NEAR ST. SWITHIN'S STREET,
              ABERDEEN
        GLAMIS CASTLE
    • Stories by English Authors: the Sea
      • The Extraodinary Adventure of a Chief Mate by W. Clark Russell
      • Quarantine Island by Sir Walter Besant
      • The Rock Scorpions by Anonymous
      • The Master of the "Chrysolite by G.B. O'Halloran
      • "Petrel" and "The Black Swan" by Anonymous
      • Melissa's Tour by Grant Allen
      • Vanderdecken's Message Home by Anonymous
    • Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, volume 23
      • THE LAWYER'S TALES (_Alexander Leighton_)--LORD KAMES'S PUZZLE.

        • THE ORPHAN (_John Mackay Wilson_).
        THE BURGHER'S TALES (_Alexander Leighton_)--THE BROWNIE OF THE WEST BOW.
        GLEANINGS OF THE COVENANT (_Professor Thomas Gillespie_)--THE LAST SCRAP.
        THE STORY OF MARY BROWN (_Alexander Leighton_).
        TIBBY FOWLER (_John Mackay Wilson_).
        THE CRADLE OF LOGIE (_Alexander Leighton_).
        THE DEATH OF THE CHEVALIER DE LA BEAUTE (_John Mackay Wilson_).
        THE STORY OF THE PELICAN (_Alexander Leighton_).
        THE WIDOW'S AE SON (_John Mackay Wilson_).
        THE LAWYER'S TALES (_Alexander Leighton_)--THE STORY OF MYSIE CRAIG.
        THE TWIN BROTHERS (_John Mackay Wilson_).
        THE GIRL FORGER (_Alexander Leighton_).
        THE TWO RED SLIPPERS (_Alexander Leighton_).
        THE FAITHFUL WIFE (_Alexander Leighton_).

    Anonymous

    • The Old Castle and Other Stories
      • THE OLD CASTLE,
      • GEORGE AND ALICK,
      • THE SIXPENNY CALICO,
      • A WESTMORELAND STORY,

    Robert Barr (Luke Sharp)

    • In a Steamer Chair and Other Ship-Board Stories
      • IN A STEAMER CHAIR
      • MRS TREMAIN
      • SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE
      • AN INTERNATIONAL BOW
      • A LADIES' MAN
      • A SOCIETY FOR THE REFORMATION OF POKER PLAYERS
      • THE MAN WHO WAS NOT ON THE PASSENGER LIST
      • THE TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE OF PLODKINS
      • A CASE OF FEVER
      • HOW THE CAPTAIN GOT HIS STEAMER OUT
      • MY STOWAWAY
      • THE PURSER'S STORY
      • MISS MCMILLAN

    Arthur Christopher Benson

    • Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories
      • PAUL THE MINSTREL
      • THE ISLES OF SUNSET
      • THE WAVING OF THE SWORD
      • RENATUS
      • THE SLYPE HOUSE
      • OUT OF THE SEA
      • THE TROTH OF THE SWORD
      • THE HILL OF TROUBLE
      • THE GRAY CAT
      • THE RED CAMP
      • THE LIGHT OF THE BODY
      • THE SNAKE, THE LEPER, AND THE GREY FROST
      • BROTHER ROBERT
      • THE CLOSED WINDOW
      • THE BROTHERS
      • THE TEMPLE OF DEATH
      • THE TOMB OF HEIRI
      • CERDA
      • LINUS

    Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

    • The Haunted and the Haunters
    • The Incantation
    • The Lady of Lyons

    Frances Hodgson Burnett

    • Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories
      • Little Saint Elizabeth
      • The Story of Prince Fairyfoot
      • The Proud Little Grain of Wheat
      • Behind the White Brick

    Geoffrey Chaucer

    • Canterbury Tales
      •     The General Prologue
      •      The Knight's Tale
      •      The Miller's Tale
      •      The Reeve's Tale
      •      The Cook's Tale
      •      The Man of Law's Tale
      •      The Wife of Bath's Tale
      •      The Friar's Tale
      •      The Sompnour's Tale
      •      The Clerk's Tale
      •      The Merchant's Tale
      •      The Squire's Tale
      •      The Franklin's Tale
      •      The Doctor's Tale
      •      The Pardoner's Tale
      •      The Shipman's Tale
      •      The Prioress's Tale
      •      Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas
      •      Chaucer's Tale of Meliboeus
      •      The Monk's Tale
      •      The Nun's Priest's Tale
      •      The Second Nun's Tale
      •      The Canon's Yeoman's Tale
      •      The Manciple's Tale
      •      The Parson's Tale

    Wilkie Collins

    • Fair Penitent
    • Miss Bertha and the Yankee
    • Miss Mina and the Groom
    • Mr. Lepel and the Housekeeper

    Mrs. Colman

    • The Pearl Story Book
      • THE TURTLE-DOVES OF CARMEL
      • THE DYING CHILD
      • FRIGHTENED BY A COW
      • THE RED SHOES.
      • NAUGHTY MARIAN
      • MORNING HOUR
      • THE CHIMNEY-SWEEP
      • PLEASANT AMUSEMENTS
      • THE CAGED BIRD
      • THE YOUNG GLEANER
      • PERSEVERANCE

    Joseph Conrad

    • Amy Foster
    • Secret Sharer
    • Tomorrow
    • Youth

    Daniel Defoe

    • Dickory Cronke

    Charles Dickens

    • Dr. Marigold
    • George Silverman's Explanation
    • Going into Society
    • Holiday Romance
    • The Holly-Tree
    • Hunted Down
    • The Lamplighter
    • Message from the Sea
    • Mrs. Liripper's Legacy
    • Mrs. Liripper's Lodgings
    • Seven Poor Travellers
    • Sunday Under Three Heads
    • Three Ghost Stories
      • The Signal-Man
      • The Haunted-House
      • The Trial For Murder
    • To Be Read at Dusk
    • Tom Tiddler's Ground
    • The Wreck of the Golden Mary

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    • Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
    • Adventure of the Cardboard Box
    • Adventure of the Devil's Foot
    • Adventure of the Dying Detective
    • The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
    • The Adventure of the Red Circle
    • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
        • A Scandal in Bohemia
        • The Red-headed League
        • A Case of Identity
        • The Boscombe Valley Mystery
        • The Five Orange Pips
        • The Man with the Twisted Lip
        • The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
        • The Adventure of the Speckled Band
        • The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
        • The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
        • The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
        • The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
    • His Last Bow
    • Mystery of Sassa Valley
    • The Parasite
    • The Stark Munro Letters

    Maria Edgeworth

    • Tales and Novels
      • Volume 1, Moral Tales
        • FORESTER
        • THE PRUSSIAN VASE
        • THE GOOD AUNT
        • ANGELINA; OR, L'AMIE INCONNUE
        • THE GOOD FRENCH GOVERNESS
        • MADEMOISELLE PANACHE
        • THE KNAPSACK
      • Volume 2, Popular Tales
        • LAME JERVAS
        • THE WILL
        • THE LIMERICK GLOVES
        • OUT OF DEBT OUT OF DANGER
        • THE LOTTERY
        • ROSANNA
        • MURAD THE UNLUCKY
        • THE MANUFACTURERS
        • THE CONTRAST
        • THE GRATEFUL NEGRO
        • TO-MORROW

    Caradoc Evans

    • My Neighbors: Stories of the Welsh People
      • LOVE AND HATE                             11
      • ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN                  31
      • THE TWO APOSTLES                          59
      • EARTHBRED                                 81
      • FOR BETTER                                99
      • TREASURE AND TROUBLE                     117
      • SAINT DAVID AND THE PROPHETS             131
      • JOSEPH'S HOUSE                           155
      • LIKE BROTHERS                            173
      • A WIDOW WOMAN                            187
      • UNANSWERED PRAYERS                       199
      • LOST TREASURE                            215
      • PROFIT AND GLORY                         231

    G.M Fenn

    • Brave and True, Short Stories for Children, 9 stories

    John Galsworthy

    • Five Tales
      • THE FIRST AND LAST
      • A STOIC
      • THE APPLE TREE
      • THE JURYMAN
      • INDIAN SUMMER OF A FORSYTE
    • Works of John Galsworthy, volume 4, Villa Rubein and Other Stories
      • Villa Rubein
      • A Man of Devon
      • A Knight
      • Salvation of a Forsyte
      • The Silence

    H. Rider Haggard

    • Long Odds

    Thomas Hardy

  • Life's Little Ironies
      • The Son's Veto
      • For Conscience' Sake
      • A Tragedy of Two Ambitions
      • On the Western Circuit
      • To Please his Wife
      • The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion
      • A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four
      • A Few Crusted Characters

    Maurice Hewlett (1861-1923)

    • Little Novels of Italy
      • MADONNA OF THE PEACH-TREE
      • IPPOLITA IN THE HILLS
      • THE DUCHESS OF NONA
      • MESSER CINO AND THE LIVE COAL
      • THE JUDGMENT OF BORSO

    John C. Hutcheson

    • Tom Finch's Monkey, and How He Dined with the Admiral and other Yarns, 5 stories

    Montague Rhodes James

    • A Thin Ghost and Others
      • THE RESIDENCE AT WHITMINSTER
      • THE DIARY OF MR. POYNTER
      • AN EPISODE OF CATHEDRAL HISTORY
      • THE STORY OF A DISAPPEARANCE AND AN APPEARANCE
      • TWO DOCTORS

    Jerome K. Jerome

    • Clocks
    • The Cost of Kindliness
    • Dreams
    • Evergreens
    • The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl
    • The Soul of Nicholas Snyder

    Christopher Jervis

    • John Thorndyke's Cases
      • THE MAN WITH THE NAILED SHOES
      • THE STRANGER'S LATCHKEY
      • THE ANTHROPOLOGIST AT LARGE
      • THE BLUE SEQUIN
      • THE MOABITE CIPHER
      • THE MANDARIN'S PEARL
      • THE ALUMINIUM DAGGER
      • A MESSAGE FROM THE DEEP SEA

    William H.G. Kingston

    • The Ferryman of Brill and Other Stories, 8 stories

    Andrew Lang

    • The Man in the Iron Mask
    • Saint-Germain the Deathless
    • In the Wrong Paradise and Other Stories
      • The End of Phaeacia
      • In the Wrong Paradise
      • A Cheap Nigger
      • The Romance of the First Radical
      • A Duchess's Secret
      • The House of Strange Stories
      • In Castle Perilous
      • The Great Gladstone Myth
      • My Friend the Beach-Comber

    George MacDonald

    • The Portent and Other Stories
      • THE PORTENT
      • THE CRUEL PAINTER
      • THE CASTLE
      • THE WOW O' RIVVEN
      • THE BROKEN SWORDS
      • THE GRAY WOLF
      • UNCLE CORNELIUS HIS STORY

    Talbot Baines Reed

    • Boycotted and Other Stories, 15 stories
    • Parkhurst Boys, 37 stories

    Saki (H.H. Munro)

    • Beasts and Superbeasts
      • The She-Wolf
      • Laura
      • The Boar-Pig
      • The Brogue
      • The Hen
      • The Open Window
      • The Treasure-Ship
      • The Cobweb
      • The Lull
      • The Unkindest Blow
      • The Romancers
      • The Schartz-Meterklume Method
      • The Seventh Pullet
      • The Blind Spot
      • Dusk
      • A Touch of Realism
      • Cousin Teresa
      • The Yarkand Manner
      • The Byzantine Omelette
      • The Feast of Nemesis
      • The Dreamer
      • The Quince Tree
      • The Forbidden Buzzards
      • The Stake
      • Clovis on Parental Responsibiliteis
      • A Holiday Task
      • The Stalled Ox
      • The Story-Teller
      • A Defensive Diamond
      • The Elk
      • "Down Pens"
      • The Name-Day
      • The Lumber Room
      • Fur
      • The Phlandthropist and the Happy Cat
      • On Approval
    • Chronicles of Clovis
      • Introduction
      • Esme
      • The Match-Maker
      • Tobermory
      • Mrs. Packletide's Tiger
      • The Stampeding of Lady Bastable
      • The Background
      • Hermann the Irascilbe -- a Story of the Great Weep
      • The Unrest-Cure
      • The Jesting of Arlington Stringham
      • Sredni Vashtar
      • Adrian
      • The Chaplet
      • The Quest
      • Wratislav
      • The Easter Egg
      • Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse that Helped
      • The Music on the Hill
      • The Story of St. Vespaluus
      • The Way to the Dairy
      • The Peace Offering
      • The Peace of Mowsle Barton
      • The Talking-Out of Tarrington
      • The Hounds of Fate
      • The Recessional
      • A Matter of Sentiment
      • The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope
      • "Ministers of Grace"
      • The Remoulding of Groby Lington
      • Acknowledgment
    • Reginald
      • Reginald
      • Reginald on Christmas Presents
      • Reginald on the Academy
      • Reginald at the Theatre
      • Reginald's Peace Poem
      • Reginald's Choir Treat
      • Reginald on Worries
      • Reginald on House-Parties
      • Reginald at the Carlton
      • Reginald on Besetting Sins
      • Reginald's Drama
      • Reginald on Tariffs
      • Reginald's Christmas Revel
      • Reginald's Rubaiyat
      • The Innocence of Reginald
    • Reginald in Russia
      • Reginald in Russia
      • The Reticence of Lady Anne
      • The Lost Sanjak
      • The Sex that Doesn't Shop
      • The Blood-Feud of Toad-Water
      • A Young Turkish Catastrophe
      • Judkin of the Parcels
      • Gabriel-Ernest
      • The Saint and The Goblim
      • The Soul of Laploshka
      • The Bag
      • The Strategist
      • Cross Currents
      • The Baker's Dozen
      • The Mouse
    • The Toys of Peace
      • The Toys of Peace
      • Louise
      • Tea
      • The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh
      • The Wolves of Cernogratz
      • Louis
      • The Guests
      • The Penance
      • The Phantom Luncheon
      • A Bread and Butter Miss
      • Bertie's Christmas Eve
      • Forewarned
      • The Interlopers
      • Quail Seed
      • Canossa
      • The Threat
      • Excepting Mrs. Pentherby
      • Mark
      • The Hedgehog
      • The Mappined Life
      • Fate
      • The Bull
      • Morlvera
      • Shock Tactics
      • The Seven Cream Jugs
      • The Occasional Garden
      • The Sheep
      • The Oversight
      • Hyacinth
      • The Image of the Lost Soul
      • The Purple of the Balkan Kings
      • The Cupboard of the Yesterdays
      • For the Duration of the War

    Sir Walter Scott

    • Death of the Laird's Jock
    • My Aunt Margaret's Mirror
    • The Tapestried Chamber
    • Wandering Willie's Tale

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    • Father Damien
    • Lodging for the Night
    • Markheim
    • St. Ives
    • Thrawn Janet
    • Underwoods

    William Makepeace Thackeray

    • John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character
    • A Little Dinner at the Timmins's
    • Little Travels and Roadside Sketches (writing as Michael Angelo Titmarsh)
    • The Notch on the Ax
    • On Being Found Out

    Anthony Trollope

    • Aaron Trow
    • Chateau of Prince Polignac
    • Courtship of Susan Bell
    • George Walker at Suez
    • House of Heine Brothers
    • John Bull on the Guadalquivir
    • La Mer Bauche
    • The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box
    • Miss Sarah Jack
    • Mistletoe Bough
    • Mrs. General Talboys
    • The O'Conors of Castle Conor
    • The Parson's Daughter
    • The Relics of General Chasse
    • Returning Home
    • Ride Across Palestine
    • Unprotected Woman

    Horace Walpole

    • Hieroglyphic Tales


    Canadian

    Harriet S. Caswell

    • The Path of Duty and Other Stories
      • CLARA ROSCOM OR THE PATH OF DUTY
      • TERRY DOLAN
      • THE FAITHFUL WIFE
      • EMMA ASHTON
      • THOUGHTS ON AUTUMN
      • WANDERING DAVY
      • LOOKING ON THE DARK SIDE
      • EDWARD BARTON
      • THE WEARY AT REST
      • THE RAINY AFTERNOON
      • THE STUDENT'S DREAM
      • UNCLE EPHRAIM
      • STORY OF A LOG CABIN
      • HAZEL-BROOK FARM
      • OLD RUFUS
      • THE DIAMOND RING
      • THE UNFORTUNATE MAN
      • THE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE
      • ARTHUR SINCLAIR
      • THE SNOW STORM
      • THE NEW YEAR
      • EARNEST HARWOOD; OR, THE ADOPTED SON

    F. Clifford Smith

    • A Lover in Homespun and Other Stories
      • A Lover in Homespun
      • The Faith that Removes Mountains
      • A Pair of Boots
      • A Prairie Episode
      • A Daughter of the Church
      • A Perilous Encounter
      • Le Loup-Garou
      • A Christmas Adventure
      • Narcisse's Friend
      • A Strange Presentiment
      • A Memorable Dinner

    Edward William Thomson

    • Old Man Savarin and Other Stories
      • OLD MAN SAVARIN
      • THE PRIVILEGE OF THE LIMITS
      • MCGRATH'S BAD NIGHT
      • GREAT GODFREY'S LAMENT
      • THE RED-HEADED WINDEGO
      • THE SHINING CROSS OF RIGAUD
      • LITTLE BAPTISTE
      • THE RIDE BY NIGHT
      • DRAFTED
      • A TURKEY APIECE
      • GRANDPAPA'S WOLF STORY
      • THE WATERLOO VETERAN
      • JOHN BEDELL
      • VERBITZSKY'S STRATAGEM

    Danish

    Hans Christian Andersen

    • Fairy Tales
      • The Emperor's New Clothes
      • The Swineherd
      • The Real Princess
      • The Shoes of Fortune
      • The Fir Tree
      • The Snow Queen
      • The Leap-Frog
      • The Elderbush
      • The Bell
      • The Old House
      • The Happy Family
      • The Story of a Mother
      • The False Collar
      • The Shadow
      • The Little Match Girl
      • The Dream of Little Tuk
      • The Naughty Boy
      • The Red Shoes

    Jens Peter Jacobsen

    • Mogens and Other Stories
      • Introduction
      • Mogens
      • The Plague at Bergamo
      • There Should Have Been Roses
      • Mrs. Fonss

    Egyptian

    • Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, editd by Flinders Petrie, 1899
      • first series, 4th to 12th dynasty
        • TALES OF THE MAGICIANS
        • KHAFRA'S TALE
        • BAUFRA'S TALE
        • HORDEDEF'S TALE
        • THE PEASANT AND THE WORKMAN
        • THE SHIPWRECKED SAILOR
        • THE ADVENTURES OF SANEHAT
      • second series, 18th to 19th dynasty
        • THE TAKING OF JOPPA
        • THE DOOMED PRINCE
        • ANPU AND BATA
        • SETNA AND THE MAGIC BOOK

    French

    Collections

    • One Hundred Merrie and Delightsome Stories (15th Century), translated to English by Robert Douglas
    • International Short Stories: French, in English translation, compiled by Francis J. Reynolds, 1910
      • A PIECE OF BREAD By Francois Coppee
      • THE ELIXIR OF LIFE By Honore de Balzac
      • THE AGE FOR LOVE By Paul Bourget
      • MATEO FALCONE By Prosper Merimee
      • THE MIRROR By Catulle Mendes
      • MY NEPHEW JOSEPH By Ludovic Halevy
      • A FOREST BETROTHAL By Erckmann-Chatrian
      • ZADIG THE BABYLONIAN By Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
      • ABANDONED By Guy de Maupassant
      • THE GUILTY SECRET By Paul de Kock
      • JEAN MONETTE By Eugene Francois Vidocq
      • SOLANGE By Alexandre Dumas
      • THE BIRDS IN THE LETTER-BOX By Rene Bazin
      • JEAN GOURDON'S FOUR DAYS By Emile Zola
      • BARON DE TRENCK By Clemence Robert
      • THE PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA By Henry Murger
      • THE WOMAN AND THE CAT By Marcel Prevost
      • GIL BLAS AND DR. SANGRADO By Alain Rene Le Sage
      • A FIGHT WITH A CANNON By Victor Hugo
      • TONTON By A. Cheneviere
      • THE LAST LESSON By Alphonse Daudet
      • CROISILLES By Alfred de Musset
      • THE VASE OF CLAY By Jean Aicard
    • Contes Francais, edited with notes and vocabulary by Douglas Buffum
      • MERIMEE
        •   L'ENLEVEMENT DE LA REDOUTE
        •   LE COUP DE PISTOLET
      • MAUPASSANT
        •   LA MAIN
        •   UNE VENDETTA
        •   L'AVENTURE DE WALTER SCHNAFFS
        •   TOMBOUCTOU
        •   EN MER
        •   LES PRISONNIERS
        •   LE BAPTEME
        •   TOINE
        •   LE PERE MILON
      • DAUDET
        •   LE CURE DE CUCUGNAN
        •   LE SOUS-PREFET AUX CHAMPS
        •   LE PAPE EST MORT
        •   UN REVEILLON DANS LE MARAIS
        •   LA VISION DU JUGE DE COLMAR
      • ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN
        •   LA MONTRE DU DOYEN
      • COPPEE
        •   LE LOUIS D'OR
        •   L'ENFANT PERDU
      • GAUTIER
        •   LA MILLE ET DEUXIEME NUIT
      • BALZAC
        •   UN DRAME AU BORD DE LA MER.
      • MUSSET
        •   CROISILLES

    Honore de Balzac

  • Adieu, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
  • Another Study of Woman, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
  • The Atheist's Mass, translated to English by Clara Bell
  • Christ in Flanders, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
  • The Deserted Woman, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
  • Domestic Peace, translated to English by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell
  • A Drama on the Seashore, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
  • Droll Stories, in English
  • Volume 1
  • Translator's Preface
  • Prologue
  • The Fair Imperia
  • The Venial Sin
  • The King's Sweetheart
  • The Devil's Heir
  • The Merrie Jests of King Louis XI
  • The High Constable's Wife
  • The Maid of Thilouse
  • The Brother-in-Arms
  • The Vicar of Azay-Le-Rideau
  • The Reproach
  • Volume 2
  • Prologue
  • The Three Clerks of Saint Nicholas
  • The Continence of King Francis I
  • The Merry Tattle of the Nuns of Poissy
  • How the Chateau d'Azay Came to be Built
  • The False Courtesan
  • The Danger of Being Too Innocent
  • The Dear Night of Love
  • The Sermon of the Merry Vicar of Meudon
  • The Succubus
  • Despair in Love
  • Epilogue
  • Volume 3
  • Prologue
  • Perseverance in Love
  • Concerning a Provost Who Did Not Recognise Things
  • About the Monk Amador, who was a Glorious Abbot of Turpenay
  • Bertha the Penitent
  • How the Pretty Maid of Portillon Convinced Her Judge
  • In Which It Is Demonstrated that Fortune Is Always Feminine
  • Odd Sayings of Three Pilgrims
  • Innocence
  • El Verdugo, translated to English by Katharine Prescot Wormeley
  • The Elixir of Life, translated to English by Clara Bell and James Waring
  • An Episode under the Terror, translated to English by Clara Bell
  • The Exiles, translated to English by Clara Bell and James Waring
  • Facino Cane, translated to English by Clara Bell
  • Farewell, in English
  • Gaudissart II, translated to English by Clara Bell
  • The Hidden Masterpiece, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
  • The Illustrious Gaudissart, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
  • La Grande Breteche (sequel to Another Study of Woman), translated to English by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell
  • La Grenadiere, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
  • Madame Firmiani, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
  • A Man of Business, translated to English by Clara Bell
  • The Message, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
  • A Passion in the Desert, translated to English by Ernest Dawson
  • Pierre Grassou, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
  • A Prince of Bohemia, translated to English by Clara Bell
  • The Purse, translated to English by Clara Bell
  • The Recruit, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
  • The Red Inn, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
  • Sarrasine, translated to English by Clara Bell
  • Study of a Woman, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
  • Z. Marcas, translated to English by Clara Bell

    • Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian

    • The Man-Wolf and Other Tales
      • The Man-Wolf
      • Myrtle
      • Uncle Christian's Inheritance
      • The Bear-Baiting
      • The Scapegoat
      • A Night In The Woods

    Francois Coppee

    • Ten Tales
      • THE CAPTAIN'S VICES
      • TWO CLOWNS
      • A VOLUNTARY DEATH
      • A DRAMATIC FUNERAL
      • THE SUBSTITUTE
      • AT TABLE
      • AN ACCIDENT
      • THE SABOTS OF LITTLE WOLFF
      • THE FOSTER SISTER
      • MY FRIEND MEURTRIER

    Gustave Flaubert

    • Herodias
    • A Simple Soul
    • Three Short Works
      • The Dance of Death
      • The Legend of Saint-Julian the Hospitaller
      • A Simple Soul

    Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant

    • Complete Short Stories -- 13 volumes, 180 stories, translated to English by Albert McNaster, A.E. Henderson, Madame Quesada et al.
      • Volume 1
        • Guy de Maupassant -- a Study by Pol. Neveux
        • Boule de Suif
        • Two Friends
        • The Lancer's Wife
        • The Prisoners
        • Two Little Soldiers
        • Father Milon
        • A Coup d'Etat
        • Lieutenant Lare's Marriage
        • The Horrible
        • Madame Parisse
        • Mademoiselle Fifi
        • A Duel
      • Volume 2
        • The Colonel's Ideas
        • Mother Sauvage
        • Epiphany
        • The Mustache
        • Madame Baptiste
        • The Question of Latin
        • A Meeting
        • The Blind Man
        • Indiscretion
        • A Family Affair
        • Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse
      • Volume 3
        • Miss Harriet
        • Little Louise Roque
        • The Donkey
        • Moiron
        • The Dispenser of Holy Water
        • The Parricide
        • Bertha
        • The Patron
        • The Door
        • A Sale
        • The Impolite Sex
        • A Wedding Gift
        • The Relic
      • Volume 4
        • The Moribund
        • The Gamekeeper
        • The Story of a Farm Girl
        • The Wreck
        • Theodule Sabot's Confession
        • The Wrong House
        • The Diamond Necklace
        • The Marquis de Fumerol
        • The Trip of the Horla
        • Farewell
        • The Wolf
        • The Inn
      • Volume 5
        • Monsieur Parent
        • Queen Hortense
        • Timbuctoo
        • Tombstones
        • Mademoiselle Pearl
        • The Thief
        • Claire de Lune
        • Waiter, a "Bock"
        • After
        • Forgiveness
        • In the Spring
        • A Queer Night in Paris
      • Volume 6
        • That Costly Ride
        • Useless Beauty
        • The Father
        • My Uncle Sosthenes
        • The Baroness
        • Mother and Son
        • The Hand
        • A Tress of Hair
        • On the River
        • The Cripple
        • A Stroll
        • Alexandre
        • The Log
        • Julie Romain
        • The Rondoli Sisters
      • Volume 7
        • The False Gems
        • Fascination
        • Yvette Samoris
        • A Vendetta
        • My Twenty-Five Days
        • "The Terror"
        • Legend of Mont St. Michel
        • A New Year's Gift
        • Friend Patience
        • Abandoned
        • The Maison Tellier
        • Denis
        • My Wife
        • The Unknown
        • The Apparition
      • Volume 8
        • Clochette
        • The Kiss
        • The Legion of Honor
        • The Test
        • Found on a Drowned Man
        • The Orphan
        • The Beggar
        • The Rabbit
        • His Avenger
        • My Uncle Jules
        • The Model
        • A Vagabond
        • The Fishing Hole
        • The Spasm
        • In the Wood
        • Martine
        • All Over
        • The Parrot
        • A Piece of String
      • Volume 9
        • Toine
        • Madame Husson's Roster
        • The Adopted Son
        • A Coward
        • Old Mongilet
        • Moonlight
        • The First Snowfall
        • Sundays of a Bourgeois
        • A Recollection
        • Our Letters
        • The Love of Long Ago
        • Friend Joseph
        • The Effeminates
        • Old Amable
      • Volume 10
        • The Christening
        • The Farmer's Wife
        • The Devil
        • The Snipe
        • The Will
        • Walter Schnaff's Adventure
        • At Sea
        • Minuet
        • The Son
        • That Pig of a Morin
        • Saint Anthony
        • Lasting Love
        • Pierrot
        • A Normandy Joke
        • Father Matthew
      • Volume 11
        • The Umbrella
        • Belhomme's Beast
        • Discovery
        • The Accursed Bread
        • The Dowry
        • The Diary of a Mad Man
        • The Mask
        • The Penguins' Rock
        • A Family
        • Suicides
        • An Artifice
        • Dreams
        • Simon's Papa
      • Volume 12
        • The Child
        • A Country Excursion
        • Rose
        • Rosalie Prudent
        • Regret
        • A Sister's Confession
        • Coco
        • A Dead Woman's Secret
        • A Humble Drama
        • Mademoiselle Cocotte
        • The Corsican Bandit
        • The Grave
      • Volume 13
        • Old Judas
        • The Little Cask
        • Boitelle
        • A Widow
        • The Englishmen of Etretat
        • Magnetism
        • A Father's Confession
        • A Mother of Monsters
        • An Uncomfortable Bed
        • A Portrait
        • The Drunkard
        • The Wardrobe
        • The Mountain Pool
        • A Cremation
        • Misti
        • Madame Hermet
        • The Magic Couch
    • Boule de Suif and Other Stories, in French
      •   Boule de Suif
      •   L'Epave
      •   Decouverte
      •   Un Parricide
      •   Le Rendez-vous
      •   Bombard
      •   Le Pain Maudit
      •   Les Sabots
      •   La Buche
      •   Magnetisme
      •   Divorce
      •   Une Soiree
    • A Comedy of Marriage: Musotte, the Lancer's Wife and Other Stories, in English
      • LA PAIX DU MENAGE
      • MUSOTTE
      • ADDENDA
      • THE LANCER'S WIFE
      • HAUTOT SENIOR AND HAUTOT JUNIOR
      • NO QUARTER
      • THE ORPHAN
      • A LIVELY FRIEND
      • THE BLIND MAN
      • THE IMPOLITE SEX
      • THE CAKE
      • THE CORSICAN BANDIT
      • THE DUEL
    • Contes du Jour et de la Nuit, in French
      • DES VERS.
      • LA MAISON TELLIER.
      • MADEMOISELLE FIFI.
      • UNE VIE.
      • LES CONTES DE LA BÉCASSE.
      • CLAIR DE LUNE.
      • AU SOLEIL.
      • MISS HARRIETT.
      • LES SOEURS RONDOLI.
      • YVETTE.
    • Le Horla and Other Stories, in French
      • LE HORLA
      • AMOUR
      • LE TROU
      • SAUVEE
      • CLOCHETTE
      • LE MARQUIS DE FUMEROL
      • LE SIGNE
      • LE DIABLE
      • LES ROIS
      • AU BOIS
      • UNE FAMILLE
      • JOSEPH
      • L'AUBERGE
      • LE VAGABOND
    • Works of Guy de Maupassant, volume 1, in English
      • Boule de Suif
      • Miss Harriet
      • Francesca and Carlotta Rondoli
      • Chali
      • The Umbrella
      • My Uncle Sosthenes
      • He?
      • A Philosopher
      • Always Lock the Door!
      • A Meeting
      • The Little Cask
      • How He Got the Legion of Honor
      • The Accursed Bread
      • What Was Really the Matter with Andrew
      • My Landlady
      • The Horla, or Modern Ghosts
      • Love. Three Pages from a Sportsman's Book
      • The Hole
      • Saved
      • Bellflower
      • The Marquis de Fumerol
      • The Signal
      • The Devil
      • Epiphany
      • In the Wood
      • A Family
      • Joseph
      • The Inn
      • Ugly
    • Works of Guy de Maupassant, volume 2, in English
      • Monsier Parent
      • The Father
      • a Vagabond
      • Useless Beauty
      • Fly
      • The Mad Woman
      • That Pig of a Morin
      • The Wooden Shoes
      • A Normandy Joke
      • A Cock Crowed
      • Julot's Opinion
      • Mademoiselle
      • The Mountebanks
      • The Sequel to a Divorce
      • The man with the Dogs
      • The Clown
      • Babette
      • Sympahy
      • The Debt
      • An Artist
      • Mademoiselle Fifi
      • The Story of a Farm Girl
      • Mamma Stirling
      • Lilie Lala
      • Madame Tellier's Establishment
      • The Bandmaster's Sister
      • False Alram
      • Wife and Mistress
      • Mad
      • An Unfortunate Likeness
      • The New Sensation
    • Works of Guy de Maupassant, volume 3, in English
      • The Viaticum
      • The Relics
      • The Thief
      • A Rupture
      • A Useful House
      • The Accent
      • Ghosts
      • Crash
      • An Honest Ideal
      • Stable Perfume
      • The Ill-Omened Groom
      • an Exotic Prince
      • Virtue in the Ballet
      • In His Sweetheart's Livery
      • Delila
      • A Mesalliance
      • Bertha
      • Abandoned
      • A Night in Whitechapel
      • Contess Satan
      • Kind Girls
      • Profitable Business
      • Violated
      • Jeroboam
      • The Log
      • Margot's Tapers
      • Caught in the Very Act
      • The Confession
      • Was It a Dream
      • The Last Step
      • The Will
      • A Country Excursion
      • The Lancer's Wife
      • The Colonel's Ideas
      • One Evening
      • The Hermaphrodite
      • Marroca
      • An Artifice
      • The Assignation
      • An Adventure
      • The Double Pins
      • Under the Yoke
      • The Real One and the Other
      • The Upstart
      • The Carter's Wench
      • The Marquis
      • The Bed
      • An Adventure in Paris
      • Madame Baptiste
      • Happiness
    • Works of Guy de Maupassant volume 4
      • The Old Maid
      • The Awakening
      • In the Spring
      • The Jennet
      • Rust
      • The Substitute
      • The Relic
      • The Man with the blue Eyes
      • Allouma
      • A Family Affair
      • The Odalisque of Senichou
      • A Good Match
      • A Fashionable Woman
      • The Carnival of Love
      • A Deer Park in the Provinces
      • The White Lady
      • Caught
      • Christmas Eve
      • Words of Love
      • A Divorce Case
      • Who Knows?
      • Simon's Papa
      • Paul's Mistress
      • The Rabbit
      • The Twenty-Five Frances of the Mother Superior
      • The Venus of Branza
      • La Morillonne
      • Water, a "Bock"
      • Regret
      • The Port
      • The Hermit
      • The Orderly
      • Duchoux
      • Old Amable
      • Magnetism

    Prosper Merimee

    • Quatre Contes, in French, edited with notes and vocabulary by F.C.L. van Steenderen

    Marguerite Valois, Queen of Navarre

    • The Heptameron (72 stories)
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
      • volume 3
      • volume 4
      • volume 5

    Emile Zola

    • Captain Burle
    • Contes a Ninon, in French
      • A NINON
      • SIMPLICE
      • LE CARNET DE DANSE
      • CELLE QUI M'AIME
      • LA FÉE AMOUREUSE
      • LE SANG
      • LES VOLEURS ET L'ÂNE
      • SOEUR-DES-PAUVRES
      • AVENTURES DU GRAND SIDOINE ET DU PETIT MÉDÉRIC
    • Nouveaux Contes a Ninon
      •  Un bain
      •   Les fraises
      •   Le grand Michu
      •   Le jeûne
      •   Les épaules de la marquise
      •   Mon voisin Jacques
      •   Le paradis des chats
      •   Lili
      •   La légende du Petit-Manteau bleu de l'amour
      •   Le forgeron
      •   Le chômage
      •   Le petit village
    • The Death of Olivier Becaille
    • The Flood
    • The Miller's Daughter

    German

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    • German Stories volume 1
      • The Fury by Paul Heyse
      • The Philosopher's Pendulum by Rudolph Lindau
      • The Bookbinder of Hort by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
      • The Egyptian Fire-Eater by Rudolph Baumbach
      • Adventures of a New Year's Eve by Heinrich Zschokke
    • German Stories volume 2
      • Christian Gellert's Last Christmas by Berthold Auerbach
      • A Ghetto Violet by Leopold Kompert
      • The Severed Hand by Wilhelm Hauff
      • Peter Schlemihl by Adelbert von Chamisso

    E.T.A. Hoffmann

    • The Cremona Violin
    • Kleines Zaches Genannt Zinnober, in German

    Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

    • Fabeln und Erzahlungen
      • Das Geheimnis
      • Das Kruzifix
      • Das Muster der Ehen
      • Der über uns
      • Der Adler und die Eule
      • Der Eremit
      • Der Hirsch und der Fuchs
      • Der Löwe und die Mücke
      • Der Sperling und die Feldmaus
      • Der Tanzbär
      • Der Wunsch zu sterben
      • Die Bäre
      • Die Brille
      • Die Nuß und die Katze
      • Die Sonne
      • Die Teilung
      • Die eheliche Liebe
      • Die kranke Pulcheria
      • Faustin
      • Morydan
      • Nix Bodenstrom

    Theodore Storm

      Immensee, translated by C.W. Bell

    Ancient Greek

    Lucian of Samosata

    • Works
      • Volume 1 of 4
        • Preface
        • Introduction
        • The Vision
        • A Literary Prometheus
        • Nigrinus
        • Trial in the Court of Vowels
        • Timon the Misanthrope
        • Prometheus on Caucasus
        • Dialogues of the Gods
        • Dialogues of the Sea-Gods
        • Dialogues of the Dead
        • Menippus
        • Charon
        • Of Sacrifice
        • Sale of Creeds
        • The Fisher
        • Voyage to the Lower World
      • Volume 2 of 4
        • The Dependent Scholar
        • Apology for 'The Dependent Scholar"
        • A Slip of the Tongue in Salutation
        • Hermotimus or the Rival Philosophies
        • Herodotus and Aetioin
        • Zeuxis and Antiochus
        • Harmonides
        • The Scythian
        • The Way to Write History
        • The True History
        • The Tyrannicide
        • The Disinherited
        • Phalaris I
        • Phalaris II
        • Alexander the Oracle Monger
        • Of Pantomime
        • Lexiphanes
      • Volume 3 of 4
        • Life of Demonax
        • A Portrait-Study
        • Defence of the 'Portrait Study'
        • Toxaris: a Dialogue of Friendship
        • Zeus Cross-Examined
        • Zeus Tragoedus
        • The Cock
        • Icaromenippus, an Aerial Expedition
        • The Double Indictment
        • The Parasite, a Demonstration that Sponging is a Profession
        • Anacharsis, a Discussion of Physical Training
        • Of Mourning
        • The Rhetorician's Vade Mecum
        • The Liar
        • Dionysis, an Introductory Lecture
        • Heracles, an Introductory Lecture
        • Swans and Amber
        • The Fly, an Appreciation
        • Remarks Addressed to an Illiterate Book-Fancier

    Indian

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    • Vikram and the Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales edited by Isabel Burton
      • THE VAMPIRE'S FIRST STORY. In which a Man deceives a Woman
      • THE VAMPIRE'S SECOND STORY. Of the Relative Villany of Men and Woman
      • THE VAMPIRE'S THIRD STORY. Of a High-minded Family
      • THE VAMPIRE'S FOURTH STORY. Of a Woman who told the Truth
      • THE VAMPIRE'S FIFTH STORY. Of the Thief who Laughed and Wept
      • THE VAMPIRE'S SIXTH STORY. In which Three Men dispute about a Woman
      • THE VAMPIRE'S SEVENTH STORY. Showng the exceeding Folly of many wise Fools
      • THE VAMPIRE'S EIGHTH STORY. Of the Use and Misuse of Magic Pills
      • THE VAMPIRE'S NINTH STORY. Showing that a Man's Wife belongs not to his body but to his Head
      • THE VAMPIRE'S TENTH STORY. Of the Marvellous Delicacy of Three Queens
      • THE VAMPIRE'S ELEVENTH STORY. Which puzzles Raja Vikram

    S.B. Bannerjea

    • Tales of Bengal
      • The Pride of Kadampur
      •  The Rival Markets
      • A Foul Conspiracy
      • The Biter Bitten
      • All's Well That Ends Well
      • An Outrageous Swindle
      • The Virtue of Economy
      • A Peacemaker
      • A Brahman's Curse
      • A Roland  for  His  Oliver
      • Ramda
      • A Rift in  the Lute
      • Debenbra Babu in Trouble
      • True to His Salt
      • A Tame Rabbit
      • Gobardhan's Triumph
      • Patience is a Virtue

    Rabindranath Tagore

    • The Hungry Stones and Other Stories
      • The Hungry Stones
      • The Victory
      • Once There Was A King
      • The Home-coming
      • My Lord, The Baby
      • The Kingdom Of Cards
      • The Devotee
      • Vision
      • The Babus Of Nayanjore
      • Living Or Dead?
      • "We Crown Thee King"
      • The Renunciation
      • The Cabuliwallah [The Fruitseller from Cabul]

    Irish

  • Stories by English Authors: Ireland
      • The Gridiron by Samuel Lover
      • The Emergency Men by George Jessop
      • A Lost Recruit by Jane Barlow
      • The Rival Dreamers by John Banim
      • Neal Malone by William Carleton
      • The Banshee by Anonymous

      Seumas O'Kelly (1881-1918)

      • Waysiders: Stories of Connacht
      • The Can with the Diamond Notch
        • Both Sides of the Pond
        • The White Goat
        • The Sick Call
        • The Shoemaker
        • The Rector
        • The Home-Coming
        • A Wayside Burial
        • The Gray Lake
        • The Building

    Italian

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      • A Great Day by Edmondo de Amicis, translated by Edith Wharton
      • College Friends by Edmondo de Amicis, translated by Edith Wharton
      • Pereat Rochus by Antonio Fogazzaro, translated by A. L. Frothingham, Jr.
      • San Pantaleone by Gabriele d'Annunzio, translated by George McLean Harper
      • It Snows by Enrico Castelnuovo, translated by Edith Wharton

    Giovanni Boccaccio

    • The Decameron, translated by J. M. Rigg, 100 stories (10 per day for 10 days)
      • Volume 1
      • Volume 2

    Japan

    • Tales of Old Japan by Lord Redesdale
      • THE FORTY-SEVEN RONINS
      • THE LOVES OF GOMPACHI AND KOMURASAKI
      • KAZUMA'S REVENGE
      • A STORY OF THE OTOKODATE OF YEDO
      • THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF FUNAKOSHI JIUYEMON
      • THE ETA MAIDEN AND THE HATAMOTO
      • FAIRY TALES
        •   THE TONGUE-CUT SPARROW
        •   THE ACCOMPLISHED AND LUCKY TEA-KETTLE
        •   THE CRACKLING MOUNTAIN
        •   THE STORY OF THE OLD MAN WHO MADE WITHERED TREES TO BLOSSOM
        •   THE BATTLE OF THE APE AND THE CRAB
        •   THE ADVENTURES OF LITTLE PEACHLING
        •   THE FOXES' WEDDING
        •   THE HISTORY OF SAKATA KINTOKI
        •   THE ELVES AND THE ENVIOUS NEIGHBOUR
      • THE GHOST OF SAKURA
      • HOW TAJIMA SHUME WAS TORMENTED BY A DEVIL OF HIS OWN CREATION
      • CONCERNING CERTAIN SUPERSTITIONS
        •   THE VAMPIRE CAT OF NABESHIMA
        •   THE STORY OF THE FAITHFUL CAT
        •   HOW A MAN WAS BEWITCHED AND HAD HIS HEAD SHAVED BY THE FOXES
        •   THE GRATEFUL FOXES
        •   THE BADGER'S MONEY
        •   THE PRINCE AND THE BADGER
      • JAPANESE SERMONS
      •   THE SERMONS OF KIU-O, VOL. I. SERMON I.
      •           "          "          SERMON II.
      •           "          "          SERMON III.
    • Norwegian
    • Alexander Kielland
      • Tales of Two Countries
        • PHARAOH
        • THE PARSONAGE
        • THE PEAT MOOR
        • "HOPE'S CLAD IN APRIL GREEN"
        • AT THE FAIR
        • TWO FRIENDS
        • A GOOD CONSCIENCE
        • ROMANCE AND REALITY
        • WITHERED LEAVES
        • THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO

    Polish

    • Selected Polish Tales, translated by Else C.M. Benecke and Marie Busch
      • THE OUTPOST. By BOLESLAW PRUS
      • A PINCH or SALT. By ADAM SZYMANSKI
      • KOWALSKI THE CARPENTER. By ADAM SZYMANSKI
      • FOREBODINGS. By STEFAN ZERKOMSKI
      • A POLISH SCENE. By WLADYSLAW ST. REYMONT
      • DEATH. By WLADYSLAW ST. REYMONT
      • THE SENTENCE. By J. KADEN-BANDROWSKI
      • 'P.P.C.' By MME KYCIER-NALKOWSKA

    Henryk Sienkiewicz

    • The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall

    Roman

    Lucius Apuleius

    • The Golden Ass, translated to English by William Adlington

    Russian

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    • Best Russian Short Stories, edited by Thomas Seltzer
      • THE QUEEN OF SPADES _A.S. Pushkin
      • THE CLOAK _N.V. Gogol
      • THE DISTRICT DOCTOR _I.S. Turgenev
      • THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDING _F.M. Dostoyevsky
      • GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS _L.N. Tolstoy
      • HOW A MUZHIK FED TWO OFFICIALS _M.Y. Saltykov
      • THE SHADES, A PHANTASY _V.G. Korolenko
      • THE SIGNAL _V.N. Garshin
      • THE DARLING _A.P. Chekhov
      • THE BET _A.P. Chekhov
      • VANKA _A.P. Chekhov
      • HIDE AND SEEK _F.K. Sologub
      • DETHRONED _I.N. Potapenko
      • THE SERVANT _S.T. Semyonov
      • ONE AUTUMN NIGHT _M. Gorky
      • HER LOVER _M. Gorky
      • LAZARUS _L.N. Andreyev
      • THE REVOLUTIONIST _M.P. Artzybashev
      • THE OUTRAGE _A.I. Kuprin
    • The Shield, edited by Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, and Fyodor Sologub, 1917
      • MAXIM GORKY, Russia and the Jews
      • LEONID ANDREYEV, The First Step
      • VLADIMIR KOROLENKO, Mr. Jackson's Opinion on the Jewish Question
      • PAUL MILYUKOV, The Jewish Question in Russia
      • M. BERNATZKY, The Jews and Russian Economic Life
      • PRINCE PAUL DOLGORUKOV, The War and the Status of the Jew
      • MAXIM KOVALEVSKY, Jewish Rights and Their Enemies
      • DMITRY MEREZHKOVSKY, The Jewish Question as a Russian Question
      • VYACHESLAV IVANOV, Concerning the Ideology of the Jewish Question
      • MAXIM GORKY, The Little Boy, a Story
      • FYODOR SOLOGUB, The Fatherland for All
      • VLADIMIR SOLOVYOV, On Nationalism
      • COUNT IVAN TOLSTOY, Concerning the Legal Status of the Jews
      • LEONID ANDREYEV, The Wounded Soldier, a Story
      • CATHERINE KUSKOVA, How to Help?
      • S. YELPATYEVSKY, The Homeless Ones
      • MICHAEL ARTZIBASHEF, The Jew, a Story

    Leonid Andreyev

    • The Crushed Flower and Other Stories
      • The Crushed Flower
      • A Story Which Will Never Be Finished
      • On the Day of the Crucifixion
      • The Serpent's Story
      • Love, Faith and Hope
      • The Ocean
      • Judas Iscariot and Others
      • "The Man Who Found the Truth"

    Anton Chekhov

  • Tales of Chekhov
  • Volume 1, The Darling and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnet
  • THE DARLING
  • ARIADNE
  • POLINKA
  • ANYUTA
  • THE TWO VOLODYAS
  • THE TROUSSEAU
  • THE HELPMATE
  • TALENT
  • AN ARTIST'S STORY
  • THREE YEARS
  • Volume 3, The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
    • THE LADY WITH THE DOG
    • A DOCTOR'S VISIT
    • AN UPHEAVAL
    • IONITCH
    • THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY
    • THE BLACK MONK
    • VOLODYA
    • AN ANONYMOUS STORY
    • THE HUSBAND
  • Volume 4, The Party and Other Stories
  • THE PARTY
  • TERROR
  • A WOMAN'S KINGDOM
  • A PROBLEM
  • THE KISS
  • 'ANNA ON THE NECK'
  • THE TEACHER OF LITERATURE
  • NOT WANTED
  • TYPHUS
  • A MISFORTUNE
  • A TRIFLE FROM LIFE
  • Volume 7, The Bishop and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett
    • THE BISHOP
    • THE LETTER
    • EASTER EVE
    • A NIGHTMARE
    • THE MURDER
    • UPROOTED
    • THE STEPPE
  • Volume 8, The Chorus Girl and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett
  • THE CHORUS GIRL
  • VEROTCHKA
  • MY LIFE
  • AT A COUNTRY HOUSE
  • A FATHER
  • ON THE ROAD
  • ROTHSCHILD'S FIDDLE
  • IVAN MATVEYITCH
  • ZINOTCHKA
  • BAD WEATHER
  • A GENTLEMAN FRIEND
  • A TRIVIAL INCIDENT
  • Volume 10, Horse Stealers and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett
  • THE HORSE-STEALERS
  • WARD NO. 6
  • THE PETCHENYEG
  • A DEAD BODY
  • A HAPPY ENDING
  • THE LOOKING-GLASS
  • OLD AGE
  • DARKNESS
  • THE BEGGAR
  • A STORY WITHOUT A TITLE
  • IN TROUBLE
  • FROST
  • A SLANDER
  • MINDS IN FERMENT
  • GONE ASTRAY
  • AN AVENGER
  • THE JEUNE PREMIER
  • A DEFENCELESS CREATURE
  • AN ENIGMATIC NATURE
  • A HAPPY MAN
  • A TROUBLESOME VISITOR
  • AN ACTOR'S END
  • Volume 11, The Schoolmaster and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett
    • THE SCHOOLMASTER
    • ENEMIES
    • THE EXAMINING MAGISTRATE
    • BETROTHED
    • FROM THE DIARY OF A VIOLENT-TEMPERED MAN
    • IN THE DARK
    • A PLAY
    • A MYSTERY
    • STRONG IMPRESSIONS
    • DRUNK
    • THE MARSHAL'S WIDOW
    • A BAD BUSINESS
    • IN THE COURT
    • BOOTS
    • JOY
    • LADIES
    • A PECULIAR MAN
    • AT THE BARBER'S
    • AN INADVERTENCE
    • THE ALBUM
    • OH! THE PUBLIC
    • A TRIPPING TONGUE
    • OVERDOING IT
    • THE ORATOR
    • MALINGERERS
    • IN THE GRAVEYARD
    • HUSH!
    • IN AN HOTEL
    • IN A STRANGE LAND
  • Volume 12, The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett
  • THE COOK'S WEDDING
  • SLEEPY
  • CHILDREN
  • THE RUNAWAY
  • GRISHA
  • OYSTERS
  • HOME
  • A CLASSICAL STUDENT
  • VANKA
  • AN INCIDENT
  • A DAY IN THE COUNTRY
  • BOYS
  • SHROVE TUESDAY
  • THE OLD HOUSE
  • IN PASSION WEEK
  • WHITEBROW
  • KASHTANKA
  • A CHAMELEON
  • THE DEPENDENTS
  • WHO WAS TO BLAME?
  • THE BIRD MARKET
  • AN ADVENTURE
  • THE FISH
  • ART
  • THE SWEDISH MATCH
  • Love and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett
    • LOVE
    • LIGHTS
    • A STORY WITHOUT AN END
    • MARI D'ELLE
    • A LIVING CHATTEL
    • THE DOCTOR
    • TOO EARLY!
    • THE COSSACK
    • ABORIGINES
    • AN INQUIRY
    • MARTYRS
    • THE LION AND THE SUN
    • A DAUGHTER OF ALBION
    • CHORISTERS
    • NERVES
    • A WORK OF ART
    • A JOKE
    • A COUNTRY COTTAGE
    • A BLUNDER
    • FAT AND THIN
    • THE DEATH OF A GOVERNMENT CLERK
    • A PINK STOCKING
    • AT A SUMMER VILLA
  • The Duel and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett
    • THE DUEL
    • EXCELLENT PEOPLE
    • MIRE
    • NEIGHBOURS
    • AT HOME
    • EXPENSIVE LESSONS
    • THE PRINCESS
    • THE CHEMIST'S WIFE
  • The Schoolmistress and Other Stories, English translation
      • The School Mistress
      • A Nervous Breakdown
      • Misery
      • Champagne
      • After the Theatre
      • A Lady's Story
      • In Exile
      • The Cattle-Dealers
      • Sorrow
      • On Official Duty
      • The First-Class Passenger
      • A Tragic Actor
      • A Transgression
      • Small Fry
      • The Requiem
      • In the Coach-House
      • Panic Fears
      • The Bet
      • The Head-Gardener's Story
      • The Beauties
      • The Shoemaker and the Devil
    • The Wife and Other Stories, translated to English by Constance Garnett
      • The Wife
      • Difficult People
      • The Grasshopper
      • A Dreary Story
      • The Privy Councillor
      • The Man in a Case
      • Gooseberries
      • About Love
      • The Lottery Ticket
    • The Witch and Other Stories
      • The Witch
      • Peasant Wives
      • The Post
      • The New Villa
      • Dreams
      • The Pipe
      • Agafya
      • At Christmas Time
      • GUSEV
      • The Student
      • In the Ravine
      • The Huntsman
      • Happiness
      • A Malefactor
      • Peasants
    • Note-Book of Anton Chekhov, translated by S.S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf

    Nikolai Gogol

    • Taras Bulba and Other Stories
      • Introduction by John Cournos
      • Taras Bulba
      • St. John's Eve
      • The Cloak
      • How the Two Ivans Quarrelled
      • The Mysterious Portrait
      • The Calash

    Maxim Gorky

    • Twenty-Six and One and Other Stories
      • Twenty-Six and One
      • Tchelkache
      • Malva

    Boris Pilnyak ( = Boris Andreyevich Vogau)

    • Tales of the Wilderness
      • THE SNOW
      • A YEAR OF THEIR LIVES
      • A THOUSAND YEARS
      • OVER THE RAVINE
      • ALWAYS ON DETACHMENT
      • THE SNOW WIND
      • THE FOREST MANOR
      • THE BIELOKONSKY ESTATE
      • DEATH
      • THE HEIRS
      • THE CROSSWAYS

    Alexander Pushkin

    • The Shot

    Leo Tolstoy

    • Father Sergius
    • The Forged Coupon and Other Stories
      • Introduction
      • The Forged Coupon
      • After the Dance
      • Alyosha the Pot
      • My Dream
      • There Are No Guilty People
      • The Young Tsar
    • The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
      • Translator's Preface
      • The Kreutzer Sonata
      • Ivan the Fool
      • A Lost Opportunity
      • Polikushka
      • The Candle
    • Master and Man, translated to English by Louise and Aylmer Maude
    • An Old Acquaintance

    Ivan Turgenev

    • A Desperate Character and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett
      • Pyetushkov,  1847
      • The Brigadier,  1867
      • A Strange Story,  1869
      • Punin and Baburin,  1874
      • Old Portraits,  1881
      • A Desperate Character,  1881
    • Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett
      • THE DIARY OF A SUPERFLUOUS MAN
      • A TOUR IN THE FOREST
      • YAKOV PASINKOV
      • ANDREI KOLOSOV
      • A CORRESPONDENCE
    • Dream Tales and Prose Poems, translated by Constance Garnett
      • CLARA MILITCH
      • PHANTOMS
      • THE SONG OF TRIUMPHANT LOVE
      • THE DREAM
      • POEMS IN PROSE
    • The Jew and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett
      • THE JEW
      • AN UNHAPPY GIRL
      • THE DUELLIST
      • THREE PORTRAITS
      • ENOUGH
    • A Sportsman's Sketches
      • Volume 1
        •  HOR AND KALINITCH
        •  YERMOLAI AND THE MILLER'S WIFE
        •  RASPBERRY SPRING
        •  THE DISTRICT DOCTOR
        •  MY NEIGHBOUR RADILOV
        •  THE PEASANT PROPRIETOR OVSYANIKOV
        •  LGOV
        •  BYEZHIN PRAIRIE
        •  KASSYAN OF FAIR SPRINGS
        •  THE AGENT
        •  THE COUNTING-HOUSE
        •  BIRYUK
        •  TWO COUNTRY GENTLEMEN
        •  LEBEDYAN
      • Volume 2
        • TATYANA BORISSOVNA AND HER NEPHEW
        • DEATH
        • THE SINGERS
        • PIOTR PETROVITCH KARATAEV
        • THE TRYST
        • THE HAMLET OF THE SHTCHIGRI DISTRICT
        • TCHERTOP-HANOV AND NEDOPYUSKIN
        • THE END OF TCHERTOP-HANOV
        • A LIVING RELIC
        • THE RATTLING OF WHEELS
        • EPILOGUE: THE FOREST AND THE STEPPE

    South African

    Perceval Gibbon

    • Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases, 17 Short Stories
      • UNTO THE THIRD GENERATION
      • THE DREAM-FACE
      • THE AVENGER OF BLOOD
      • THE HANDS OF THE PITIFUL WOMAN
      • PIET NAUDE'S TREK
      • LIKE UNTO LIKE
      • COUNTING THE COLORS
      • THE KING OF THE BABOONS
      • MORDER DRIFT
      • A GOOD END
      • VASCO'S SWEETHEART
      • THE PERUVIAN
      • TAGALASH
      • THE HOME KRAAL
      • THE SACRIFICE
      • THE COWARD
      • HER OWN STORY
    • The Second-Class Passenger
      •  THE SECOND-CLASS PASSENGER
      • THE SENSE OF CLIMAX
      • THE TRADER OF LAST NOTCH
      • THE MURDERER
      • THE VICTIM
      • BETWEEN THE LIGHTS
      • THE MASTER
      • "PARISIENNE"
      • LOLA
      • THE POOR IN HEART
      • THE MAN WHO KNEW
      • THE HIDDEN WAY
      •  THE STRANGE PATIENT
      • THE CAPTAIN'S ARM
      •  THE WIDOWER

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    Spanish

    • Stories by Foreign Authors -- Spanish
      • THE TALL WOMAN .. .. .. .. .. .. by Pedro Antonio De Alarcon
      • THE WHITE BUTTERFLY. .. .. .. .. by Jose Selgas
      • THE ORGANIST.. .. .. .. .. .. .. by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
      • MOORS AND CHRISTIANS .. .. .. .. by Pedro Antonio De Alarcon
      • BREAD CAST UPON THE WATERS .. .. by Fernan Caballero
    • Miguel Cervantes
      • Exemplary Novels
        • THE LADY CORNELIA
        • RINCONETE AND CORTADILLO; OR, PETER OF THE CORNER AND THE LITTLE CUTTER
        • THE LICENTIATE VIDRIERA; OR, DOCTOR GLASS-CASE
        • THE DECEITFUL MARRIAGE
        • DIALOGUE BETWEEN SCIPIO AND BERGANZA, DOGS OF THE HOSPITAL OF THE RESURRECTION IN THE CITY OF VALLADOLID,

          • COMMONLY CALLED THE DOGS OF MAHUDES
        • THE LITTLE GIPSY GIRL
        • THE GENEROUS LOVER
        • THE SPANISH-ENGLISH LADY
        • THE FORCE OF BLOOD
        • THE JEALOUS ESTRAMADURAN
        • THE ILLUSTRIOUS SCULLERY-MAID
        • THE TWO DAMSELS

    Swedish

    August Strindberg

    • In Midsummer Days and other Tales