Short Story Collection

Authors

 

Stories :

 

Samuel Hopkins Adams

Such as Walk in Darkness

A St John Adcock

Bob Harris's Deputy

Joseph Addison

A Story of an Heir

Max Adeler

A Desperate Adventure

Aesop

The Country Mouse and The Town Mouse

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Marjorie Daw

James Lane Allen

King Solomon of Kentucky

Leonid Andreyev

Silence

Appollonius of Rhodes

Phineus and The Harpies

Apuleius

The Dream

Gertrude Atherton

The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number

J. A. Barbey d'Aurevilly

The Greatest Love of Don Juan

Jane Barlow

Mrs. Martin’s Company

Charles Baudelaire

Fanfarlo

Charles de Bernard

A Consultation

Ambrose Bierce

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

The Man and the Snake

A Horseman in the Sky

The Damned Thing

My Favourite Murder

The Affair At Coulter's

A Watcher By The Dead

On a Mountain

What I Saw of Shiloh

A Little of Chickamauga

The Crime at Pickett’s Mill

Four Days in Dixie

What Occurred at Franklin

A Bivouac of the Dead

Chickamauga

A Son of the Gods

One Of The Missing

Killed at Resaca

The Coup De Grâce

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

Three and One are One

A Baffled Ambuscade

Two Military Executions

A Resumed Identity

Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General

Frederick Booth

Supers

George Brooke

How Angels Got Religion

Noah Brooks

Lost in the Fog

Henry Cuyler Bunner

The Nice People

A Letter and a Paragraph

Thomas A. Burke

Polly Peablossom's Wedding

``Doing'' A Sheriff

Francis Buzzell

Ma's Pretties

George W. Cable

'Sieur George

``Posson Jone'''

Miguel de Cervantes

Rinconete and Cortadillo

Anton Chekhov

The Bet

A Blunder

A Misfortune

A Trifle from Life

Difficult People

Hush!

Champagne

Enemies

The Kiss

Kashtanka

The Grasshopper

Neighbours

Ward No. 6

An Anonymous Story

Peasants

Gooseberries

About Love

The Darling

The New Villa

On Official Duty

The Lady with the Doga

The Duel

The Wife

The Black Monk

A Woman's Kingdom

Three Years

The Murder

My Life

In the Ravine

Joy

The Death of a Government Clerk

A Daughter of Albion

Fat and Thin

The Bird Market

Choristers

Minds in Ferment

A Chameleon

In the Graveyard

Oysters

The Marshal's Widow

The Fish

The Huntsman

A Malefactor

The Head of the Family

A Dead Body

The Cook's Wedding

Overdoing It

Old Age

Sorrow

Mari d'Elle

The Looking-glass

Art

Children

Misery

An Upheaval

The Requiem

Anyuta

The Witch

A Joke

Agafya

A Story Without an End

Grisha

Love

A Gentleman Friend

The Privy Councillor

A Day in the Country

The Chorus Girl

In the Court

An Incident

A Work of Art

Vanka

On the Road

Easter Eve

The Beggar

An Inadvertence

Verotchka

Shrove Tuesday

A Bad Business

Home

Typhus

The Cossack

Volodya

Happiness

Zinotchka

The Doctor

The Runaway

The Cattle-Dealers

In Trouble

Boys

A Lady's Story

A Story Without a Title

The Steppe

Lights

A Dreary Story

The Teacher of Literature

An Artist’s Story

Kate Chopin

A Shameful Affair

The Story of an Hour

At Cheniere Caminada

The Blind Man

Irvin S. Cobb

The Belled Buzzard

Captain Roland T. Coffin

How Old Wiggins Wore Ship

Mary Coleridge

The Friendly Foe

William Wilkie Collins

The Lady of Glenwith Grange

A Terribly Strange Bed

James Brendan Connolly

The Magnetic Hearth

Francois Coppee

The Substitute

Joseph Conrad

The Idiots

The Lagoon

An Anarchist

The Informer

The Brute

Il Conde

Prince Roman

The Inn of The Two Witches A Find

Laughing Anne

The Warrior's Soul

The Tale

To-morrow

Amy Foster

Falk--A Reminiscence

Heart of Darkness

Karain: A Memory

An Outpost of Progress

The Shadow Line

The Secret Sharer

Typhoon

Youth

Stephen Crane

The Open Boat

A Dark-Brown Dog

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky

The Veteran

Allan Cunningham

The Haunted Ships

George WM. Curtis

Titbottom's Spectacles

Mary Stewart Cutting

The Happiest Time

Alphonse Daudet

The Last Lesson

The Elixir of the Reverend Father Gaucher

The Old Folks at Home

Samuel Davis

The First Piano In Camp

Daniel Defoe

True Relation of The Apparition of One Mrs. Veal

In Defence of His Right

Thomas Deloney

Sir Simon Eyer

Thomas de Quincey

Savannah-la-Mar

Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow

Charles Dickens

The Old Man’s Tale about the Queer Client

The Goblins who Stole a Sexton

The Bagman’s Story

The Old Man's Tale of The Queer Client Arthur Conan Doyle

The Yellow Face

Mary Tracy Earle

The Man Who Worked for Collister

Gustave Flaubert

A Simple Heart

John W. De Forest

An Inspired Lobbyist

Anatole France

Our Lady's Juggler

Crainquebille

Harold Frederic

Brother Sebastian's Friendship

Richard Garnett

The Elixir of Life

Vsevolod Garshin

The Signal

Mrs Gaskell

The Half-Brothers

The Old Nurse’s Story

Theophile Gautier

The Mummy's Foot

A Night with Cleopatra

Nikolai Gogol

Old-Fashioned Farmers

The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich

The Nose

The Overcoat

Murray R. Gilchrist

The End of the World

George Gissing

A Daughter of the Lodge

Oliver Goldsmith

The Disabled Soldier

Mrs. Gore

Dorathea

Maxim Gorky

One Autumn Night

Chelkash

One Autumn Evening

The Affair of The Clasps

Creatures that once were men

Notch

Chums

Twenty-Six Men and A Girl

Cain and Artyom

Red

Evil-Doers

Birth of A Man

Going Home

Lullaby

The Hermit

Karamora

Robert Grant

Against his Judgment

Frederick Stuart Greene

The Cat of the Cane-Brake

Frances Gregg

Whose Dog

The Brothers Grimm

Little Briar-Rose

Guy De Maupassant

The Necklace

Family Life

On Horseback

Hautot Senior and Hautot Junior

Thomas Hardy

Squire Petrick's Lady

Henry Harland

A Broken Looking-Glass

Joel Chandler Harris

Brer Rabbit's Cradle

Brer Rabbit and the Tar-Baby

Francis Bret Harte

The Idyll of Red Gulch

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

The Gentleman of La Porte

Tennessee's Partner

Alexander Harvey

The Raft

John Hawkesworth

The Story of Melissa

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Great Carbuncle

Mrs. Bullfrog (From

Rappaccini's Daughter

Lafcadio Hearn

The Soul of the Great Bell

Heliodorus

The Robbers of Egypt

O. Henry

Supply and Demand

The World and the Door

The Last of the Troubadours

The Passing of Black Eagle

The Furnished Room

The Defeat of the City

The Cop and the Anthem

The Last Leaf

The Lost Blend

Vanity and Some Sables

Lost on Dress Parade

Roses, Ruses and Romance

Little Speck in Garnered Fruit

The Gift of The Magi

A Cosmopolite in A Cafe

Between Rounds

The Skylight Room

A Service of Love

The Coming-Out of Maggie

Memoirs of A Yellow Dog

The Love-Philtre of Ikey

Mammon and The Archer

Springtime A la Carte

From The Cabby's Seat

An Unfinished Story

Sisters of The Golden Circle

The Romance of A Busy Broker

The Brief Debut of Tildy

Hearts and Crosses

Telemachus, Friend

The Handbook of Hymen

The Trimmed Lamp

The Pendulum

The Assessor of Success

The Buyer from Cactus City

The Badge of Policeman O' Roon

Brickdust Row

The Making of A New Yorker

The Social Triangle

A Harlem Tragedy

The Guilty Party

Count and Wedding Guest

The Tale of A Tainted Tenner

Peters as A Personal Magnet

The Hand that Riles

Science of Matrimony

Conscience in Art

The Man Higher Up

A Tempered Wind

Hostages to Momus

The Ethics of Pig

Strictly Business

The Day Resurgent

The Fifth Wheel

The Poet and The Peasant

The Thing's the Play

A Ramble in Aphasia

A Municipal Report

Compliments of The Season

Proof of The Pudding

Past one at Rooney's

The Rose of Dixie

The Third Ingredient

Thimble, Thimble

Buried Treasure

The Moment of Victory

The Head-Hunter

The Sleuths

Witches' Loaves

Holding up A Train

Ulysses and The Dogman

At Arms with Morpheus

A Ghost of a Chance

Jimmy Hayes and Muriel

The Door of Unrest

The Duplicity of Hargraves

Let Me Feel Your Pulse

Law and Order

Martin Burney

Roads of Destiny

The Guardian of The Accolade

The Enchanted Profile

Next to Reading Matter

A Double-dyed Deceiver

A Retrieved Reformation

The Little Rheinschloss

Two Renegades

A Lickpenny Lover

Dougherty's Eye-Opener

While the Auto Waits

A Comedy in Rubber

One Thousand Dollars

The Shocks of Doom

Nemesis and The Candy Man

The Memento

The Hypotheses Of Failure

Calloway's Code

Girl

A Technical Error

A Blackjack Bargainer

Bo-Peep, of The Ranches

A Ruler of Men

John Tom Little Bear

The Marionettes

The Dream

Herodotus

King Rhampsinitus and The Thief

Homer

Eumaeus' Tale

Wm. C. Honeyman

The Veiled Portrait

Honore De Balzac

The Mysterious Mansion

Facino Cane

Aldous Huxley

The Giaconda Smile

Washington Irving

The Specter Bridegroom

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Henry James

The Middle Years

The Real Thing

The Story in it

The Tree Of Knowledge

Jean De La Fontaine

The Four Friends

Sarah Orne Jewett

Miss Tempy's Watchers

The Hiltons' Holiday

Julian Green

Leviathan

James Joyce

The Dead

Jonathan F. Kelly

A Desperate Race

Rudyard Kipling

The Education of Otis Yeere

At the Pit's Mouth

A Wayside Comedy

The Hill of Illusion

A Second-Rate Woman

Only a Subaltern

The Phantom 'Rickshaw

My own true Ghost Story

The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes

Wee Willie Winkie

Baa, Baa, Black Sheep

His Majesty the King

The Drums of the Fore and Aft

The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney

The Courting of Dinah Shadd

On Greenhow Hill

The Man Who Was

The Head of the District

Without Benefit of Clergy

At the End of the Passage

The Mutiny of the Mavericks

The Mark of the Beast

The Return of Imray

Namgay Doola

The Lang Men o’ Larut

Bertran and Bimi

Reingelder and the German Flag

The Wandering Jew

Through the Fire

The Finances of the Gods

The Amir’s Homily

Jews in Shushan

The Limitations of Pambé Serang

Little Tobrah

Moti Guj-Mutineer

Bubbling Well Road

‘The City of Dreadful Night’

Georgie Porgie

Naboth

The Dream of Duncan Parrenness

Gustav Kobbe

Clothes

Vladimir Korolenko

The Old Bell-Ringer

Addison Lewis

When did you write your Mother Last?

Livy

Horatius at The Bridge

Jack London

The Sea-Farmer

Samuel

The God of His Fathers

The Sickness of Lone Chief

The Whale Tooth

Louise Stockton

Kirby's Coals of Fire

Samuel Lover

The White Trout

Katherine Mansfield

Life of Ma Parker

Marguerite de Navarre

The Pious Lady and The Gray Friar

J.F. Marmontel

Lausus and Lydia

Katherine S. B. McDowell

Hieronymus Pop and the Baby

Herman Melville

Bartleby the Scrivener A Story of Wall Street

Poor Man's Pudding

Rich Man's Crumbs

The Paradise of Bachelors

The Tartarus of Maids

The Lightning-Rod Man

Benito Cereno

I and My Chimney

The Apple-Tree Table

The Piazza

Billy Budd, Foretopman

Prosper Merimee

Mateo Falcone

The Blue Room

Charlotte Mew

Some Ways of Love

Richard Barham Middleton

The Ghost-Ship

Mary Russell Mitford

The Freshwater Fisherman

George Moore

Julia Cahill's Curse

Home Sickness

Arthur Morrison

That Brute Simmons

Hector Hugh Munro

The Strategist

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

The Reticence of Lady Anne

The Lost Sanjak

The Sex That Doesn't Shop

The Blood-Feud of Toad-Water

A Young Turkish Catastrophe

Fudkin of the Parcels

Gabriel-Ernest

The Saint and the Goblin

The Soul of Laploshka

The Bag

Cross Currents

The Baker's Dozen

The Mouse

Esme

The Match-Maker

Mrs Packletide's Tiger

The Stampeding of Lady Bastable

The Background

Hermann the Irascible-A story of the Great Weep

Adrian

The Chaplet

The Quest

Wratislav

Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse That Helped

The Story of St Vespaluus

The Way to the Dairy

The Peace Offering

The Peace of Mowsle Barton

The Talking-Out of Tarrington

The Recessional

A Matter of Sentiment

The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope

`Ministers of Grace'

The Boar-Pig

The Brogue

The Hen

The Unkindest Blow

The Romancers

The Seventh Pullet

The Blind Spot

Dusk

A Touch of Realism

The Yarkand Manner

The Byzantine Omelette

The Feast of Nemesis

The Dreamer

The Quince Tree

The Forbidden Buzzards

The Stake

Clovis on Parental Responsibilities

A Holiday Task

The Story-Teller

A Defensive Diamond

The Elk

`Down Pens'

The Name-Day

Fur

The Philanthropist and the Happy Cat

On Approval

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

The Square Egg

Birds on the Western Front

The Gala Programme

The Infernal Parliament

The Achievement of the Cat

The Old Town of Pskoff

Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business

The Comments of Moung Ka

W. H. H. Murray

A Ride With a Mad Horse In a Freight Car

Alfred de Musset

The Beauty Spot

Gerard de Nerval

Sylvie

Newbold Noyes

The end of the path

John Oakum

Love and Lightning

Old Jim Lawless

Thomas Johnson

Little Tip McClosky

Stage Coaching

Posie Van Dusen

Block Island

Bad Medicine

The Bloodless Onslaught

Cap. De Costa

Uncle Daniel

Summer Recreation

The Blue and The Gray

An Autumn Episode

An Old Man’s Exegesis

Statistics

Departed Days

Minor Paragraphs

Fitz-James O'brien

The Diamond Lens

Ovid

Orpheus and Eurydice

Thomas Nelson Page

Ole 'Stracted

Charles Perrault

Little Red Riding-Hood

Petronius

The Matron of Ephesus

Phaedrus

The Shipwreck of Simonides

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Little Tommy Tucker

Charles-Louis Philippe

The Match

Pliny the Younger

The Haunted House

Edgar Allan Poe

MS. found in a Bottle

The Tell-Tale Heart

Ligeia

William Sydney Porter

The Trimmed Lamp

The Cop and the Anthem

Alexander Pushkin

The Snow Storm

Francois Rabelais

He Who Married a Dumb Wife

Rebecca Harding Davis

Balacchi Brothers

Ernest Renan

The Flax Pounder

Barnaby Rich

Apolonius and Silla

Richard Harding Davis

How Hefty Burke got Even

Hallie Erminie Rives

In the Wake of War

Benjamin Rosenblatt

Zelig

Martin Ross

Lisheen Races, Second-hand

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Hand and Soul

Edgar Saltus

A Maid of Modern Athens

Sir Walter Scott

The Tapestried Chamber

The Bridal of Janet Dalrymple

Seumas O'Brien

The Whale and the Grasshopper

Henryk Sienkiewicz

The Shepherdess and the Sweep

Harriet Prescott Spofford

The Mount of Sorrow

Richard Steele

The Wedding of Jenny Distaff

Laurence Sterne

Le Fevre

Maria

R. L. Stevenson

Thrawn Janet

Markheim

Will o’ the Mill

William James Stillman

Billy and Hans

Frederic Jesup Stimson

Mrs. Knollys

Frank R. Stockton

Mr. Tolman

Lorimer Stoddard

The Indian's Hand

Agnes Strickland

The Love Quarrel

Bayard Taylor

Who Was She?

Leo Tolstoy

The Long Exile

George Alfred Townsend

Crutch, The Page

Traditional

The Green Knight (Retold by Ernest Rhys)

Tom Tit Tot

The Story of Abou Hassan the Wag

Grendel's Raid

Bruin The Bear and Reynard The Fox

Anthony Trollope

Introduction

La Mère Bauche

The O’conors of Castle Conor, County Mayo

John Bull on the Guadalquivir

The Man who kept his Money in a Box

The Two Generals

Malachi’s Cove

The Journey to Panama

John Townsend Trowbridge

The Man Who Stole a Meeting-House

Mark Twain

Journalism in Tennessee

The 1,000,000 Bank-Note

The Man Who Put Up At Gadsby's

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

The $30,000 Bequest

A Dog's Tale

Was it Heaven? or Hell?

The Californian's Tale

A Helpless Situation

A Telephonic Conversation

Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale

Saint Joan of Arc

The Five Boons of Life

The First Writing-Machines

Italian without A Master

Italian with Grammar

A Burlesque Biography

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

A Deception

The Danger of Lying in Bed

Portrait of King William III

Does The Race of man love A Lord?

Eve's Diary

The Invalid's Story

The Captain's Story

In Memoriam

The Belated Russian Passport

Two Little Tales

Diplomatic Pay and Clothes

Extracts from Adam's Diary

The Death Disk

Villiers De L'Isle Adam

The Torture of Hope

The Desire to be a Man

Voltaire

Memnon The Philosopher, or Human Wisdom

Stanley Waterloo

An Ulm

H G Wells

The Sea-Raiders

Edith Wharton

The Moving Finger

William Hale White

Esther

Oscar Wilde

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

The Sphinx without a Secret

The Canterville Ghost

The Model Millionaire

The Happy Prince

The Nightingale and the Rose

The Selfish Giant

The Devoted Friend

The Remarkable Rocket

The Portrait of Mr. W. H.

The Young King

The Birthday of the Infanta

The Fisherman and his Soul

The Star-Child

J. M. Wilson

Grizel Cochrane

Emile Zola

The Fairy Amoureuse