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The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Andrew Lang
The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Single Author Collections
The Arabian Nights is a collection of Perso-Arabic folk tales and other stories. The collection, or at least certain stories drawn from it (or purporting to be drawn from it), became widely known in the West from the 18th century, after it was...
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables - Aesop
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables - Aesop
- Author: Aesop
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Single Author Collections
Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica are a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. The fables remain a popular choice for moral education of children today. Many of...
Widdershins (Version 2) - Oliver ONIONS
Widdershins (Version 2) - Oliver ONIONS
- Author: Oliver ONIONS
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Single Author Collections
Onions wrote several collections of ghost stories, of which the best known is Widdershins (1911). It includes the novella The Beckoning Fair One, widely regarded as one of the best in the genre of horror fiction, especially psychological horror. On...
One Basket - Edna Ferber
One Basket - Edna Ferber
- Author: Edna Ferber
- Genre: Single Author Collections
This sparkling collection of 7 short stories by Ferber includes some that are considered her all time best like The Woman Who Tried To be Good and The Maternal Feminine. Writing for and about women, Edna Ferber touches the very heart and soul of...
Tongues of Conscience - Robert Smythe HICHENS
Tongues of Conscience - Robert Smythe HICHENS
- Author: Robert Smythe HICHENS
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Single Author Collections
Tongues of Conscience (1898) is a collection of five thought-provoking stories where an innocent, but selfish, action leads to horrific consequences. Robert Hichens writes some wonderfully evocative descriptions of nature: from a raw and exposed...
What Men Live By and Other Tales (Version 2) - Leo Tolstoy
What Men Live By and Other Tales (Version 2) - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Religious Fiction / Single Author Collections
This is a collection of 4 stories by Leo Tolstoy, all dealing with the question asked in the title of the first story: What Does Man Live By. What is the purpose of life? How are we expected to live with others? What is all of this about anyway? And...
Seven H.P. Lovecraft Stories - H. P. LOVECRAFT
Seven H.P. Lovecraft Stories - H. P. LOVECRAFT
- Author: H. P. LOVECRAFT
- Genre: Science Fiction / Single Author Collections
Howard Phillips Lovecraft, better known as H.P. Lovecraft, was an American author of horror, fantasy, poetry and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction and many feel he is the acknowledged master of creepy, weird and...
And Thus He Came - Cyrus Townsend Brady
And Thus He Came - Cyrus Townsend Brady
- Author: Cyrus Townsend Brady
- Genre: Religious Fiction / Single Author Collections
These short stories, perhaps we might call them modern parables, are not the usual fare of warm and fuzzy Christmas stories (pleasing as those are) but rather life events and crises triggered by Christmas, present or imminent. Brady was a...
The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life In Tales and Poems - Sherwood ANDERSON
The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life In Tales and Poems - Sherwood ANDERSON
- Author: Sherwood ANDERSON
- Genre: Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
βThe Triumph of the Eggβ is a collection of stories and poems by Sherwood Anderson. Abandoning the interconnected quality of his more famous βWinesburg, Ohio,β the author adopts a variety of perspectives and settings while exploring similar themes:...
Dubliners - James JOYCE
Dubliners - James JOYCE
- Author: James JOYCE
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Masterful short stories about life in Dublin at the turn of the century, by James Joyce. (Summary by Hugh McGuire)...
Abaft The Funnel - Rudyard Kipling
Abaft The Funnel - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Single Author Collections
"Men in pajamas sitting abaft the funnel and swapping lies of the purple seas." Thirty one early short stories by the master story teller Kipling. (Summary by David Wales and title page)...
Cape Cod Stories - Joseph Crosby LINCOLN
Cape Cod Stories - Joseph Crosby LINCOLN
- Author: Joseph Crosby LINCOLN
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories / Single Author Collections
This book (eleven short stories) was also published under the title of βThe Old Home Houseβ. Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1870 β 1944) was an American author of novels, poems, and short stories, many set in a fictionalized Cape Cod. Lincoln's work...
Orientations - W. Somerset Maugham
Orientations - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Single Author Collections
This is a collection showing W. Somerset Maugham's early attempt in the short story genre, which he comes to master as one of 20th century's best teller of tales. - Summary by Lilith Branda...
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3: The Viaticum and Other Stories - Guy de Maupassant
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3: The Viaticum and Other Stories - Guy de Maupassant
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- Genre: General Fiction / Single Author Collections
This is volume is a collection of 50 of de Maupassant's short stories. Summary by James K. White....
Whilomville Stories - Stephen Crane
Whilomville Stories - Stephen Crane
- Author: Stephen Crane
- Genre: Single Author Collections
This collection consists of thirteen stories. The stories are set in the mythical town of Whilomville used by Stephen Crane for many of his best stories. They appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine between 1899 and 1900. The writing is crisp, the...
Bear Creek Collection Volume 1 - Robert E. Howard
Bear Creek Collection Volume 1 - Robert E. Howard
- Author: Robert E. Howard
- Genre: Westerns / Single Author Collections
Breckinridge Elkins is the roughest, toughest, fastest-shootin', hardest-fightin' feller in the Bear Creek settlement, and probably in the entire Humbolt Mountains. As he travels further from home, he single-handedly takes on outlaws, settles (and...
The Seen and the Unseen - Richard Marsh
The Seen and the Unseen - Richard Marsh
- Author: Richard Marsh
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction / Single Author Collections
Is it true that people can literally be scared to death ? Is it possible to photograph astral projections ? What happens if you play with a pack of cards which belonged to a dead card-trickster ? These and more questions are raised and answered in...
Arizona Nights - Stewart Edward White
Arizona Nights - Stewart Edward White
- Author: Stewart Edward White
- Genre: Westerns / Single Author Collections
Arizona Nights is a collection of tales from the American West as told by those who took part in them. (Summary by Adam E. Maroney)...
The Human Boy - Eden PHILLPOTTS
The Human Boy - Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Author: Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Genre: Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
This collection of eleven short stories, both humorous and touching, about English school boys was published in 1900. The book was quite popular in its time. The author wrote two follow-up books: The Human Boy Again (1908) and The Human Boy And The...
Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches - Maurice Baring
Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches - Maurice Baring
- Author: Maurice Baring
- Genre: Single Author Collections
In this urbane collection of short stories by Maurice Baring, characters ranging from legendary figures to schoolboys find themselves in step or out of sorts, where they are meant to be or warned not to go, out of luck or, more often than not, in...
Just Sixteen - Susan Coolidge
Just Sixteen - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: Single Author Collections
A collection of short stories from the author of the What Katy Did series, for an audience ranging from younger to older children - and enjoyable for adults too! They vary in style - fairy tales, humorous sketches, stories of everyday life,...
Earth's Enigmas - Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
Earth's Enigmas - Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
- Author: Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction / Single Author Collections
Most of the stories in this collection attempt to present one or another of those problems of life or nature to which, as it appears to many of us, there is no adequate solution within sight. Others are the almost literal transcript of dreams which...
Christmas With Lucy Maud Montgomery: A Selection Of Stories - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Christmas With Lucy Maud Montgomery: A Selection Of Stories - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Family Life / Single Author Collections
This work is a selection of Christmas stories (or sometimes chapters) of Lucy Maud Montgomery from different sources and different times. The focus is widened a bit to include a few works about Thanksgiving Day and New Yearβs Day. LMM was a prolific...
Stories from the Adirondacks - Albert A. YOUNG
Stories from the Adirondacks - Albert A. YOUNG
- Author: Albert A. YOUNG
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Single Author Collections
A collection of five stories all of which take place in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, and most which contain elements of some mystery hidden deep within the forests. - Summary by Roger Melin...
The Human Boy And The War - Eden PHILLPOTTS
The Human Boy And The War - Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Author: Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Published in 1916, this is the third collection of thirteen humorous short stories about English school boys in a boarding school in the fictitious village Merivale. This book, of course, has World War I as a backdrop. Each story is told in the...
The Water Ghost and Others - John Kendrick Bangs
The Water Ghost and Others - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Single Author Collections
Eight ghost stories by a master story teller and humorist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (Summary by David Wales)...
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol - William John Locke
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol - William John Locke
- Author: William John Locke
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections
This 1912 collection of short stories is of lighthearted adventures of an irresponsible -- and irrepressible -- Frenchman in England and Paris. The author (1863-1930) was a popular British novelist, dramatist, and playwright, known especially for...
In a North Country Village - M. E. FRANCIS
In a North Country Village - M. E. FRANCIS
- Author: M. E. FRANCIS
- Genre: Single Author Collections
M. E. Francis was born Mary E. Sweetman in Dublin and moved to Lancashire on her marriage to Francis Nicholas Blundell, of the Blundell family, who remain squires of Little Crosby, the last Catholic recusant village in England, which lies a few...
The Third Person - Henry James
The Third Person - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
The Third Person is an amusing spoof on spooking. The 'ghostly man about the house' in whom two increasingly competitive maiden ladies come to take a proprietary interest is as unlikely to inspire terror as the wraith in one of James's earliest...
A Mirror Of Shalott - Robert Hugh Benson
A Mirror Of Shalott - Robert Hugh Benson
- Author: Robert Hugh Benson
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Single Author Collections
Fourteen stories of the strange by the Anglican then Roman Catholic priest, Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914). The form of the book is of stories told by a gathering of Roman Catholic clergy. Benson wrote prolifically in many genres. His horror and...
A Sportsman's Sketches - Ivan Turgenev
A Sportsman's Sketches - Ivan Turgenev
- Author: Ivan Turgenev
- Genre: Single Author Collections
A Sportsman's Sketches (Russian: ΠΠ°ΠΏΠΈΡΠΊΠΈ ΠΎΡ
ΠΎΡΠ½ΠΈΠΊΠ°; also known as The Hunting Sketches and Sketches from a Hunter's Album) was an 1852 collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev. It was the first major writing that gained him recognition. He wrote...
Danger! and Other Stories - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Danger! and Other Stories - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Single Author Collections
This is a volume of short stories by the famous Arthur Conan Doyle. - Summary by Carolin...
The Spirit of Christmas (version 2) - Henry van Dyke
The Spirit of Christmas (version 2) - Henry van Dyke
- Author: Henry van Dyke
- Genre: Family Life / Single Author Collections
A collection of short Christmas works by the author of The Story of the Fourth Wise Man (Summary by D. Leeson)....
The Stoneground Ghost Tales - Edmund Gill SWAIN
The Stoneground Ghost Tales - Edmund Gill SWAIN
- Author: Edmund Gill SWAIN
- Genre: Single Author Collections
The Stoneground Ghost Tales is a collection of nine short stories set in and around a church and parish on the edge of England's fen country. The protagonist, the Rector of Stoneground, the Reverend Roland Batchel, is a kindly, humane bachelor and...
Sevastopol - Leo Tolstoy
Sevastopol - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: War & Military Fiction / Single Author Collections
Sevastopol Sketches (Russian: Π‘Π΅Π²Π°ΡΡΠΎΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΡΠΊΠΈΠ΅ ΡΠ°ΡΡΠΊΠ°Π·Ρ, Sevastopolskiye rasskazy) are three short stories written by Leo Tolstoy and published in 1855 to record his experiences during the Siege of Sevastopol (1854β1855) in the Crimean War...
The Chronicles of Clovis - Saki
The Chronicles of Clovis - Saki
- Author: Saki
- Genre: Single Author Collections
This is the third collection of short stories by Saki, following on from βReginaldβ and βReginald in Russiaβ. Although some of the stories have characters that do not appear elsewhere in the collection, many of them are loosely centred round the...
The Kitchen Cat and Other Stories - Amy WALTON
The Kitchen Cat and Other Stories - Amy WALTON
- Author: Amy WALTON
- Genre: Single Author Collections
These are three stories that will delight your heart and soul. The little girl Ruth in the first story is very privileged young lady with everything she could wish for except,of course, for companionship. Her mother has passed away and her father is...
A Dozen Ways of Love - Lily DOUGALL
A Dozen Ways of Love - Lily DOUGALL
- Author: Lily DOUGALL
- Genre: Single Author Collections
This is a collection of (each in their own way) romantic short stories by Lily Dougall. - Summary by Carolin...
The Countess of Lowndes Square, and Other Stories - E. F. Benson
The Countess of Lowndes Square, and Other Stories - E. F. Benson
- Author: E. F. Benson
- Genre: Single Author Collections
A collection of fourteen short stories, grouped under the headings of "Blackmailing Stories", "Spook Stories", "Cat Stories", "Crank Stories", and "General Stories". From the preface: "[S]uch readers as are in search merely of the lighter...aspects...
The Man Without A Country And Other Tales - Edward Everett HALE
The Man Without A Country And Other Tales - Edward Everett HALE
- Author: Edward Everett HALE
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Edward Everett Hale (1822 β 1909) was an American author, historian and Unitarian clergyman. Hale first came to notice as a writer in 1859, when he contributed the short story "My Double and How He Undid Me" to the Atlantic Monthly. He soon...
