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Short Stories
Step into a world where every story opens a different door: from candlelit Victorian romance to razor-sharp mystery, from ghostly whispers to flashes of wit and humor from across the globe. This bookshelf is a whirlwind tour of short fiction at its most vivid, gathering voices from England, America, Russia, Scandinavia, France, Spain, and beyond. In just a few pages at a time, expect suspense, passion, surprise, and unforgettable glimpses of lives far from your own.
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Earth's Holocaust (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fifty Famous People: A Book of Short Stories
by James Baldwin
An Arrow in a Sunbeam, and Other Tales
by Sarah Orne Jewett, active 19th century Frances Lee, C. S. Sleight
Many cargoes
by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
Careless Jane and Other Tales
by Katharine Pyle
Back to God's Country and Other Stories
by James Oliver Curwood
"Martin of Nitendi"; and The River of Dreams 1901
by Louis Becke
The Rising of the Court
by Henry Lawson
Floyd's Flowers; Or, Duty and Beauty for Colored Children Being One Hundred Short Stories Gleaned from the Storehouse of Human Knowledge and Experience: Simple, Amusing, Elevating
by Silas Xavier Floyd
The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories
by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
Johnny Ludlow, Sixth Series
by Mrs. Henry Wood
The Holes Around Mars
by Jerome Bixby
Zero Hour
by Ray Bradbury
The Forest Farm: Tales of the Austrian Tyrol
by Peter Rosegger
Tales from the Veld
by Ernest Glanville
Wandering Heath
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Monsieur Parent, et autres histoires courtes
by Guy de Maupassant
The snow-image: a childish miracle
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tales of the Sea, and of Our Jack Tars
by William Henry Giles Kingston
Racconti
by Francesco Dall'Ongaro
Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse
by Eugene Field
The Man in Ratcatcher, and Other Stories
by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
My friend the murderer, and other mysteries and adventures
by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Chief Mate's Yarns: Twelve Tales of the Sea
by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains
Young Lucretia and Other Stories
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Cuentos valencianos
by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Les Portes de l'Enfer
by Maurice Level
Histoires grotesques et sérieuses
by Edgar Allan Poe
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 274, September 22, 1827
by Various Authors
Contos
by João da Câmara
...So They Baked a Cake
by Winston K. (Winston Kinney) Marks
Mlle Fifi: Nouveaux Contes
by Guy de Maupassant
The Laughing Mill, and Other Stories
by Julian Hawthorne
Fabeln und Erzählungen
by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Steve Brown's Bunyip, and Other Stories
by John Arthur Barry
Haschisch: Erzählungen
by Oscar A. H. Schmitz
Over the Side Captains All, Book 6.
by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
Novelle
by Edmondo De Amicis
The Praying Skipper, and Other Stories
by Ralph Delahaye Paine
Heathen Master Filcsik
by Kálmán Mikszáth
Deutsche Humoristen, 6. Band (von 8) Humoristische Erzählungen
by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann, Bettina von Arnim, Adolph Bayersdorfer, Friedrich Theodor Fischer, Ludwig Thoma, Henry F. Urban
Oberheudorfer Buben- und Mädelgeschichten: Sechszehn heitere Erzählungen
by Josephine Siebe
Another Brownie Book
by Palmer Cox
Holiday stories
by Ruth Lamb
Youth, Volume 1, Number 5, July 1902 An Illustrated Monthly Journal for Boys & Girls
by Various Authors
Railroad building, and other stories
by Pansy
Punainen lamppu : Pieniä kertomuksia
by Erkki Kivijärvi
Verhalen van de Zuidzee
by Jack London
Huit gouttes d'opium : contes pour dormir à la veillée
by Ernest Pérochon
A Few Short Sketches
by Douglass Sherley
It Takes a Thief
by Walter M. Miller
The smart ones
by Jack Sharkey
Kotiinpaluu ja muita novelleja
by Runar Schildt
Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 15
by Jean de La Fontaine
Talvi-iltain tarinoita 3 Suomen herttuatar. Kulta-aave.
by Zacharias Topelius
The Maugham Obsession
by August Derleth
Contes Chrétiens
by Teodor de Wyzewa
Lyhyitä kertomuksia
by Minna Canth
Kertomuksia I
by Maksim Gorky
Saarelaiskuvia II
by Emil Elenius
The innocence of Father Brown
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Duel and Other Stories
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The Ape, the Idiot & Other People
by W. C. Morrow
Tradiciones peruanas
by Ricardo Palma
Zwei Prager Geschichten
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Das Urteil: Eine Geschichte
by Franz Kafka
A Pail of Air
by Fritz Leiber
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Vol. 1 (of 2)
by Songling Pu
Fairy Tales From All Nations
by Anthony R. (Anthony Reubens) Montalba
Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3): Tales by Musæus, Tieck, Richter
by Thomas Carlyle, Jean Paul, Johann Karl August Musäus, Ludwig Tieck
The Plattner Story, and Others
by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Lulu's Library, Volume 2 (of 3)
by Louisa May Alcott
Astounding Stories, April, 1931
by Various Authors
All the Sad Young Men
by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930
by Anthony Pelcher
The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Christ Legends
by Selma Lagerlöf
Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace
by Wilhelm Hauff
The Ontario Readers: Third Book
by Ontario. Department of Education
Good stories for great birthdays arranged for story-telling and reading aloud and for the children's own reading
by Frances Jenkins Olcott
Trent's Trust, and Other Stories
by Bret Harte
Pâkia 1901
by Louis Becke
Haunted Places in England
by Elliott O'Donnell
Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered)
by John Benson Rose, John Gay
Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
by Ambrose Bierce
Friendly Fairies
by Johnny Gruelle
The Ravens and the Angels, with Other Stories and Parables
by Elizabeth Rundle Charles
Fables de La Fontaine. Tome Premier
by Jean de La Fontaine
Keep Your Shape
by Robert Sheckley
The Pansy, November 1886, Vol. 14
by Various Authors
El Señor y los demás son Cuentos
by Leopoldo Alas
Love Stories
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Tidal Wave and Other Stories
by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
Old Friends and New
by Sarah Orne Jewett
A Little Book of Profitable Tales
by Eugene Field