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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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The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three

by William Carleton

Contes de Noël

by Madame Henri de La Ville de Mirmont‏

Miscellanea

by Juliana Horatia Ewing

The trap

by Henry S. (Henry St. Clair) Whitehead, H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

Short Cruises

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

Les Contes; ou, Les nouvelles récréations et joyeux devis

by Bonaventure Des Périers

The Torch and Other Tales

by Eden Phillpotts

Melchior's Dream and Other Tales

by Juliana Horatia Ewing

Imaginary Portraits

by Walter Pater

Coquecigrues

by Jules Renard

Serate d'inverno

by marchesa Colombi

Wenn Landsleute sich begegnen, und andere Novellen

by Jassy Torrund

Merelä ja rannikolta: Kokoelma kertomuksia

by Just W. Flood

The Short-story

What Men Live By, and Other Tales

by graf Leo Tolstoy

The Canterville Ghost

by Oscar Wilde

Tales of Two Countries

by Alexander Lange Kielland

Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)

by Constance Fenimore Woolson, H. C. (Henry Cuyler) Bunner, John William De Forest, Mary Hallock Foote, Nathaniel Parker Willis

Famous Modern Ghost Stories

The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition

by King of Navarre consort of Henry II Queen Marguerite

El libro de las tierras vírgenes

by Rudyard Kipling

Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

by Charles Dickens

Scenes of Clerical Life

by George Eliot

Cabbages and Kings

by O. Henry

John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman

by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman

What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales

by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Moon-Face, and Other Stories

by Jack London

The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English

Ade's Fables

by George Ade

The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories

by Arnold Bennett

The horror at Red Hook

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

A Message from the Sea

by Charles Dickens

The Purcell Papers — Volume 3

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Beyond the Door

by Philip K. Dick

Lobo, Rag and Vixen Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen

by Ernest Thompson Seton

Neighbors Unknown

by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

A Dog of Flanders, The Nürnberg Stove, and Other Stories

by Ouida

North, South and Over the Sea

by M. E. Francis

Stories by American Authors, Volume 1

by Bayard Taylor, H. C. (Henry Cuyler) Bunner, Rebecca Harding Davis, Brander Matthews, Albert Webster

Three More John Silence Stories

by Algernon Blackwood

The Toll-House Sailor's Knots, Part 7.

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

Orientations

by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men

by Juliana Horatia Ewing

Gallantry: Dizain des Fetes Galantes

by James Branch Cabell

Johnny Ludlow, Third Series

by Mrs. Henry Wood

The Threefold Destiny (From "Twice Told Tales")

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the Wrong Paradise, and Other Stories

by Andrew Lang

The Blue Man From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899

by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

The Mermaid of Druid Lake, and Other Stories

by Charles Weathers Bump

A Night in Acadie

by Kate Chopin

Mother

by Owen Wister

Four Phases of Love

by Paul Heyse

Solander's Radio Tomb

by Ellis Parker Butler

Husbandry Deep Waters, Part 6.

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

A Mixed Proposal The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 9.

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

The Piebald Hippogriff

by Karen Anderson

Ade's Fables

by George Ade

Edith and Her Ayah, and Other Stories

by A. L. O. E.

Who Ate the Pink Sweetmeat? And Other Christmas Stories

by Susan Coolidge, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Kate Upson Clark, Lady Dunboyne, Edward Everett Hale, F. L. Stealey

Die sechs Mündungen: Novellen

by Kasimir Edschmid

Definition

by Damon Knight

Kid Stuff

by Winston K. (Winston Kinney) Marks

An experiment in gyro-hats

by Ellis Parker Butler

Images exotiques & françaises

by Pierre Mille

Soitannollisia satuja ja jutelmia

by Elise Polko

Kolme kohtausta: Novelleja

by Ernst Didring

Paul the minstrel, and other stories

by Arthur Christopher Benson

The Fables of Aesop Selected, Told Anew, and Their History Traced

by Aesop

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908

by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Stories from Hans Andersen

by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Men without women

by Ernest Hemingway

Schläfst du Mutter?; Ruth. Novellen

by Jakob Wassermann

Chronicles of Avonlea

by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The Great Stone Face, and Other Tales of the White Mountains

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Decameron, Volume II

by Giovanni Boccaccio

A Warning to the Curious, and Other Ghost Stories

by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

Pepper & Salt; or, Seasoning for Young Folk

by Howard Pyle

The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Ten minute stories

by Algernon Blackwood

The Law-Breakers and Other Stories

by Robert Grant

Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories

by Cal Stewart

Hollow Tree Nights and Days

by Albert Bigelow Paine

St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, September 1878, No. 11

by Various Authors

The Wives of the Dead (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Child Life in Town and Country 1909

by Anatole France

Crowded Out! and Other Sketches

by S. Frances (Susie Frances) Harrison

A Reversion To Type

by Josephine Daskam Bacon

Les joies du pardon Petites histoires contemporaines pour la consolation des coeurs chrétiens

by Anonymous

The Blue Jar Story Book

by Maria Edgeworth, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Alicia Catherine Mant

Uncanny Tales

by Mrs. Molesworth

Eleven Possible Cases

by Frank R. Stockton, Edgar Fawcett, Franklin Fyles, Anna Katharine Green, Henry Harland, Ingersoll Lockwood, Joaquin Miller, Kirk Munroe, Brainard Gardner Smith, Maurice Thompson, A. C. (Andrew Carpenter) Wheeler