Short Stories

Classic Short Stories

Aesop: Fables (in Kid’s Classics)

Thomas Bailey Aldrich: The Snow Fort on Slatter’s Hill

Sherwood Anderson

• The Egg
• The Man in the Brown Coat

T.S. Arthur: An Angel in Disguise

Robert Barr: An Alpine Divorce

L. Frank Baum: The Laughing Hippopotamus

Ambrose Bierce

• The Affair at Coulter’s Notch
• A Baby Tramp
• The Boarded Window
• Chickamauga
• A Horseman in the Sky
• The Mockingbird
• The Moonlit Road
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
• One Summer Night
• A Vine on a House

Algernon Blackwood

• The Olive
• Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp

Henry Cuyler Bunner: The Nice People

Fanny Butcher: Christmas in Chicago (Illustrated by Theresa Garrett Eliot)

Willa Cather

• Paul’s Case
• A Wagner Matinee

Anton Chekhov

• A Chameleon
• The Death Of A Government Clerk
• Fat And Thin
• The Lady with the Toy Dog
• The Looking Glass
• Oysters
• The Student
• Vanka

Kate Chopin

• Desiree’s Baby
• A Pair of Silk Stockings
• Regret
• A Respectable Woman
• The Story of An Hour

Richard Connell: The Most Dangerous Game

Stephen Crane

• A Dark Brown Dog
• The Open Boat
• Upturned Face
• The Veteran

Philip K. Dick: The Hanging Stranger

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (in Classic Novels and Other Fiction)

• 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

F. Scott Fitzgerald:

• Bernice Bobs Her Hair
• The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

Gustave Flaubert: A Simple Heart

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

• A New England Nun
• The Revolt of “Mother”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper

Susan Glaspell: A Jury of Her Peers

Nikolai Gogol: The Nose

Bret Harte

• The Luck of Roaring Camp
• Miggles
• The Outcasts of Poker Flat

Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The Minister’s Black Veil
• My Kinsman, Major Molineux
• Rappaccini’s Daughter
• Young Goodman Brown

O. Henry

• According to Their Lights
• Babes in the Jungle
• The Cactus
• The Cop and the Anthem
• A Cosmopolite in a Cafe
• The Furnished Room
• The Gift of the Magi
• Hearts And Hands
• The Last Leaf
• A Lickpenny Lover
• The Pimienta Pancakes
• The Princess And The Puma
• The Ransom of Red Chief
• A Retrieved Reformation
• The Romance of a Busy Broker
• Springtime a la Carte
• The Skylight Room
• Transients in Arcadia
• What You Want

William Dean Howells: Christmas Every Day

Washington Irving:

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• Siege and Surrender of Yorktown

W. W. Jacobs

• Keeping Watch
• The Monkey’s Paw
• The Old Man of the Sea

Henry James:  The Jolly Cornor

Jerome K. Jerome:  The Man Who Did Not Believe In Luck

Sarah Orne Jewett:  The Foreigner

Fenton Johnson: The Black Fairy

James Joyce

• After the Race
• Araby
• Eveline
• Two Gallants

Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have A Dream (a speech at the 1963 Washington D.C. Civil Rights March)

Rudyard Kipling

• How the Leopard Got His Spots
• The Man Who Would be King
• Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (in The Jungle Book)

Franz Kafka: A Hunger Artist

D. H. Lawrence

• The Horse Dealer’s Daughter
• Odour of Chrysanthemums

Jack London

• Aloha Oe
• To Build a Fire
• The Law of Life
• The Story of Keesh

Katherine Mansfield

• The Doll’s House
• The Fly

Guy de Maupassant

• Alexandre
• Boule de Suif
• The Colonel’s Ideas
• The Cripple
• A Dead Woman’s Secret
• The Diary of a Madman
• A Duel
• A Father’s Confession
• The Hand
• The Log
• The Necklace
• A Piece of String
• Two Friends
• The Vendetta

Herman Melville: Bartleby, the Scrivener

Lucy Maud Montgomery: Aunt Susanna’s Thanksgiving Dinner

Clement Clarke Moore: Twas the Night Before Christmas (in Kid’s Classics)

H.H. Munro (aka SAKI)

• The Byzantine Omelette
• A Defensive Diamond
• The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh
• The Dreamer
• Esme
• Hermann The Irascible
• The Open Window
• The Reticence of Lady Anne
• The Schartz-Metterklume Method
• The Unkindest Blow
• Sredni Vashtar
• The Yarkand Manner

Charles Perrault: The original version of famous fairy tales (in Classic Novels and Other Fiction)

• Little Red Riding-Hood
• The Sleeping Beauty In The Wood
• Cinderilla; Or, The Little Glass Slipper
• Puss In Boots
• Blue Beard
• Beauty and the Beast
• Tom Thumb

Plato: Ion

Edgar Allan Poe

• Berenice
• The Black Cat
• The Cask of Amontillado
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Pit and the Pendulum
• The Tell-Tale Heart

Frank Stockton: The Lady, or the Tiger

Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal

Leo Tolstoy: Three Questions

Mark Twain

• The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
• Extracts from Adam’s Diary
• How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
• Jim Baker’s Blue-Jay Yarn
• Journalism in Tennessee
• The McWilliamses And The Burglar Alarm
• The Private History of a Campaign that Failed
• The Story of the Bad Little Boy

Edith Wharton: A Journey

Oscar Wilde

• The Happy Prince
• The Model Millionaire
• The Nightingale and the Rose
• The Selfish Giant
• The Sphinx Without a Secret

Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Last Fight In The Coliseum

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