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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.

4600 Audiobooks

Reprinted Pieces

by Charles Dickens

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921

The Jimmyjohn Boss, and Other Stories

by Owen Wister

The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Evenings at Home; Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened

by John Aikin, Mrs. (Anna Letitia) Barbauld

Personal Reminiscences in Book Making, and Some Short Stories

by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Contes bruns

by Honoré de Balzac, Philarète Chasles, Charles Rabou

Who Spoke Next

by Eliza Lee Cabot Follen

The Nursery, September 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 3

by Various Authors

Jungle Tales of Tarzan

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The best short stories of 1915, and the yearbook of the American short story

The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales

by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Party and Other Stories

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks

by William Elliot Griffis

Life's Little Ironies A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters

by Thomas Hardy

Knulp: Drei Geschichten aus dem Leben Knulps

by Hermann Hesse

Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and the First Christmas of New England

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Murad the Unlucky, and Other Tales

by Maria Edgeworth

La Maison Tellier

by Guy de Maupassant

R. Holmes & Co. Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth

by John Kendrick Bangs

The Water Ghost and Others

by John Kendrick Bangs

The Boatswain's Mate Captains All, Book 2.

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

A Tiger's Skin The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 8.

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

Magyar élet: Elbeszélések

by István Bársony

Rimen en Teltsjes

by Justus Hiddes Halbertsma, Eeltsje Halbertsma, Tjalling Halbertsma

Esko Virtalan esittämiä kertomuksia

by Edvin Calamnius

Mistä ihmiset elävät : ynnä muita kertomuksia

by Lev Lvovich Tolstoy

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

by Washington Irving

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

by graf Leo Tolstoy

The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine

by Honoré de Balzac

The Amateur Cracksman

by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

Soldiers Three

by Rudyard Kipling

The Brownies and Other Tales

by Juliana Horatia Ewing

Proverb Stories

by Louisa May Alcott

The Death of the Lion

by Henry James

John Inglefield's Thanksgiving (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Uncle Wiggily in the Woods

by Howard Roger Garis

Over the Sliprails

by Henry Lawson

Cicely and Other Stories

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

Paris Anecdote Avec une préface et des notes par Charles Monselet

by A. (Alexandre) Privat d'Anglemont

Dick and His Cat, and Other Tales

The black cat, vol. I, no. 3, December 1895

by Various Authors

Sylph Etherege (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Sketches New and Old, Part 6.

by Mark Twain

La vigna vendemmiata: novelle

by Antonio Beltramelli

Andersen's Fairy Tales

by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Monday or Tuesday

by Virginia Woolf

My man Jeeves

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

The £1,000,000 bank-note, and other new stories

by Mark Twain

Father Sergius

by graf Leo Tolstoy

A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Round the Fire Stories

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Three John Silence Stories

by Algernon Blackwood

The Green Flag, and Other Stories of War and Sport

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Simla Village Tales; Or, Folk Tales from the Himalayas

by Alice Dracott

Fifty-One Tales

by Lord Dunsany

The Purcell Papers — Volume 1

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Five Tales

by John Galsworthy

The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists.

by Various Authors

Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920

Ten Tales

by François Coppée

Dix contes modernes des meilleurs auteurs du jour

by Paul Arène, Alphonse Daudet, Ernest Daudet, Henry de Forge, Ernest Laut, Guy de Maupassant, Montjoyeux, François de Nion, Jacques Normand, Jean du Rébrac