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The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories - Mark Twain
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections
A book of short stories and humorous anecdotes by Mark Twain, published together in 1906. (Summary by Tricia G)...
Chronicles of Avonlea (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Chronicles of Avonlea (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Romance / Single Author Collections
In this first collection of stories following the characters from the "Anne of Green Gables" series, we see 12 vignettes into the lives of the other inhabitants of Avonlea. The case of Ludovic Speed as mentioned in "Anne of the Island" is finally...
Plow Stories - Clara Dillingham Pierson
Plow Stories - Clara Dillingham Pierson
- Author: Clara Dillingham Pierson
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Single Author Collections
This book tells of the important role of the plow, starting from its humble beginnings and how the plow has changed over time. This is achieved through a series of small stories set during different time periods in history. The introduction of the...
The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories - George Gissing
The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
George Gissing was a prolific English writer of novels and short stories. Among his best known novels is The Odd Women, which was influenced by George Eliot, whose work he greatly admired. Another of his famous works, New Grub Street, entails a...
Youth and the Bright Medusa, and The Troll Garden - Willa Sibert Cather
Youth and the Bright Medusa, and The Troll Garden - Willa Sibert Cather
- Author: Willa Sibert Cather
- Genre: Westerns / Single Author Collections
Youth And The Bright Medusa comprises eight short stories published in 1920. Four of them (The Sculptor’s Funeral; A Death In The Desert; A Wagner Matinee; Paul’s Case) are re-worked from an earlier collection, The Troll Garden, published in 1905....
Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Single Author Collections
This is a collection of short stories focussing on the problems that present themselves to physicians and surgeons in the course of their work. The volume is named "Round the Red Lamp" as a reference to the red lamps that marked general...
A Thief in the Night - Version 2 - E. W. Hornung
A Thief in the Night - Version 2 - E. W. Hornung
- Author: E. W. Hornung
- Genre: Short Stories / Single Author Collections
A Thief in the Night is a 1905 collection of short stories by Ernest William Hornung, featuring his popular character A. J. Raffles. It was the third book in the series, and the final collection of short stories. In it, Raffles, a gentleman thief,...
Tolstoi for the Young: Selected tales from Tolstoi - Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoi for the Young: Selected tales from Tolstoi - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Seven stories by Leo Tolstoy selected for inclusion into a school curriculum. Some of the stories are well known and others more obscure; some are long and others quite short but all are of course from the pen of the great graf Leo Tolstoy and...
The Untilled Field - George Moore
The Untilled Field - George Moore
- Author: George Moore
- Genre: Single Author Collections
George Moore, an Irish writer involved with the Celtic Revival was influenced by the French Realists and particularly by the work of Émile Zola. Often considered as the first modern Irish novelist he became involved with Lady Gregory and William...
The Bet and Other Stories - Anton Chekhov
The Bet and Other Stories - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Thirteen short stories by the master. Summary by david wales...
The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Vol. 3 - Marguerite of Navarre
The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Vol. 3 - Marguerite of Navarre
- Author: Marguerite of Navarre
- Genre: Single Author Collections
THE HEPTAMERON (here Volume 3 of 5), first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, and an eighth day containing only 2 stories. The stories, many of which deal with love and infidelity,...
Short Stories - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Short Stories - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Single Author Collections
This is a collection of short stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the Russian novelist and short story writer. (Summary by sidhu177)...
The Mintage - Elbert Hubbard
The Mintage - Elbert Hubbard
- Author: Elbert Hubbard
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Elbert Hubbard is best known as the author of the "Little Journeys To The Homes of Famous People". These 11 short stores show the side of him that celebrated caring, friendship love among humans. The first describes how 5 frightened orphan children...
Dreams - Olive Schreiner
Dreams - Olive Schreiner
- Author: Olive Schreiner
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Single Author Collections
Olive Schreiner was a South African writer and intellectual born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She was one of the earliest campaigners for women's rights. She was also very critical of British Imperialism in her homeland and...
Tales of Three Hemispheres - Lord Dunsany
Tales of Three Hemispheres - Lord Dunsany
- Author: Lord Dunsany
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Tales of Three Hemispheres is a collection of fantasy short stories by Lord Dunsany. The first edition was published in Boston by John W. Luce & Co. in November, 1919; the first British edition was published in London by T. Fisher Unwin in June,...
The Faith of Men - Jack London
The Faith of Men - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Single Author Collections
A collection of short stories by author Jack London....
Sunbeams - George Wilbur Peck
Sunbeams - George Wilbur Peck
- Author: George Wilbur Peck
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections
George W. Peck was at times a writer, newspaper publisher and politician. Many of the Sunbeam essays had been published in Peck's paper, "The Sun", as amusing and often critical comments on social and political subjects, typically current in the...
Mosses From An Old Manse - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mosses From An Old Manse - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: Single Author Collections
"Mosses from an Old Manse" is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846. The collection includes several previously-published short stories and is named in honor of The Old Manse where Hawthorne and his wife lived for...
The Burial of the Guns - Thomas Nelson Page
The Burial of the Guns - Thomas Nelson Page
- Author: Thomas Nelson Page
- Genre: Single Author Collections
This is a book of short stories centered around the Civil War and its aftermath. The author was a prominent Virginian in his day, and his writing shows a talent for poignant reminiscences. The title comes from the second story, in which an artillery...
Tales of the Fish Patrol - Jack London
Tales of the Fish Patrol - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp-catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast armies till it reaches fresh water, when it turns about and crawls back again to the salt. And where the tide...
Tales of the Uneasy - Violet Hunt
Tales of the Uneasy - Violet Hunt
- Author: Violet Hunt
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
Nine twisty-turny tales of tragic human drama, played out in Victorian parlors, death beds and lonely country roads. This collection of Violet Hunt writings has all the requirements for short story entertainment: flirtatious beauties, mismatched...
Christmas Eve At Swamp's End - Norman Duncan
Christmas Eve At Swamp's End - Norman Duncan
- Author: Norman Duncan
- Genre: Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
Four selected chapters from The Measure Of A Man; A Tale of the Big Woods, by Norman Duncan. What could be more Christmasy than: Babies, especially a homeless one; a woman who loves; a man who protects; a cold night; glittering stars; poor...
4 Stories by Louisa May Alcott - Louisa May Alcott
4 Stories by Louisa May Alcott - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Here are four delightful short stories written by the famous author specifically for girls. As she says in the tiny preface "These stories were written for my own amusement during a period of enforced seclusion. The flowers which were my solace and...
The Literary Sense - E. Nesbit
The Literary Sense - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Single Author Collections
A collection of short stories written by the author of other literary greats such as The Railway Children, Five Children and It and The Phoenix and the Carpet. Many of her books have been made into television series or films. She wrote for both...
The Lady With the Dog and Other Stories - Anton Chekhov
The Lady With the Dog and Other Stories - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Anton Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by...
The Red Inn - Honoré de Balzac
The Red Inn - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Single Author Collections
Staying at the red inn. Two army surgeons get caught up in a murder, intrigue and execution. - Summary by pmstrahm...
Anting-Anting Stories And Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos - Sargent Kayme
Anting-Anting Stories And Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos - Sargent Kayme
- Author: Sargent Kayme
- Genre: Single Author Collections
"No less wonderful and varied are the inhabitants and the phenomena of the Philippines, and a new author, showing rare knowledge of the country and its strange peoples, now gives us a collection of simple yet wonderful stories which bring them...
Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches - Saki
Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches - Saki
- Author: Saki
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Reginald in Russia is the title story in a collection of fifteen witty and satirical stories, sketches and one "playlet" by that master of the short story H. H. Munro, better Known as Saki. The stories are: Reginald in Russia -- The Reticence of...
A Collection Of Stories, Reviews And Essays - Willa Sibert Cather
A Collection Of Stories, Reviews And Essays - Willa Sibert Cather
- Author: Willa Sibert Cather
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Single Author Collections
Stories and essays by Willa Cather - Summary by david wales...
The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories - P. G. Wodehouse
The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections
The Man With Two Left Feet, and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on March 8, 1917 by Methuen & Co., London, and in the United States in 1933 by A.L. Burt and Co., New York....
The Schoolmaster and Other Stories - Anton Chekhov
The Schoolmaster and Other Stories - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Anton Chekhov, perhaps better known as a world famous classical playwright for works such as "Uncle Vanya" and "The Cherry Orchard" was also a prolific short story writer. "The Schoolmaster and Other Stories" is one of several of his collections....
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories - Algernon Blackwood
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories - Algernon Blackwood
- Author: Algernon Blackwood
- Genre: Single Author Collections
An anthology of short, chilling stories from Algernon Blackwood. They will make you start at noises in the night and wonder about your neighbors. These stories likely stem from Blackwood's investigations into haunted houses for the Psychical...
The Thirteen Travelers - Hugh Walpole
The Thirteen Travelers - Hugh Walpole
- Author: Hugh Walpole
- Genre: Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
The year is 1919 and peace has sprung upon the world after the unspeakable carnage of World War I. The place is Hortons, a building of expensive flats on Duke Street just off Piccadilly, London. Social structures are disintegrating, expectations are...
John Sherman and Dhoya - William Butler Yeats
John Sherman and Dhoya - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Single Author Collections
In 1891, Yeats published "John Sherman", a novella, and "Dhoya", a Celtic mythologic story. Ganconagh, Yeats’s nom de plume for this work is the name of a male faerie in Irish mythology that is known for seducing human women. (Summary by Wikipedia)...
The Luck Of Roaring Camp And Other Sketches - Bret Harte
The Luck Of Roaring Camp And Other Sketches - Bret Harte
- Author: Bret Harte
- Genre: Westerns / Single Author Collections
Bret Harte (1836 – 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.... He moved to California in 1853, later working there in a number of capacities, including miner, teacher, messenger, and...
Judith Lee - Pages From Her Life - Richard Marsh
Judith Lee - Pages From Her Life - Richard Marsh
- Author: Richard Marsh
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Single Author Collections
Judith Lee is a young woman with an unusual gift, she can read lips at a distance as well as she can hear the person next to her. Her skill leads her into a number of adventures. Written by Richard Marsh (The Beetle, Joss: the Reversion) and...
Kai Lung's Golden Hours - Ernest Bramah
Kai Lung's Golden Hours - Ernest Bramah
- Author: Ernest Bramah
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Kai Lung’s Golden Hours is a frame story or frame novel, that is, the narrative provides a frame for different stories. Think One Thousand And One Nights or Canterbury Tales. Kai Lung is an ancient Chinese storyteller who tells stories to postpone...
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales - Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales - Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
- Author: Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Single Author Collections
This lively collection of stories by Q, aka the imaginative and prolific man of letters Arthur Quiller-Couch, includes tales of mystery, horror, and adventure. Beware. There will be ghosts, pirates, scholars, death, taxes, at least one princess, and...
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day - Edward Everett HALE
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day - Edward Everett HALE
- Author: Edward Everett HALE
- Genre: Single Author Collections
This is a collection of ten Christmas Stories, some of which have been published before. I have added a little essay, written on the occasion of the first Christmas celebrated by the King of Italy in Rome. (Summary by Book Preface)...
Lanagan Amateur Detective - Edward H. HURLBUT
Lanagan Amateur Detective - Edward H. HURLBUT
- Author: Edward H. HURLBUT
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Single Author Collections
This is a 1913 collection of ten short detective stories by a not well known writer. Jack Lanagan is a police reporter for a daily newspaper in San Francisco, who has the confidence of the chief of police and access to all sorts of levels of city...
