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On the Iron at Big Cloud - Frank L. Packard
On the Iron at Big Cloud - Frank L. Packard
- Author: Frank L. Packard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Single Author Collections
Frank L. Packard worked as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. He brings this experience to the fictional Hill Division -- those those twisting, climbing, dangerous and glorious miles of track that lead from the Division Point at Big...
Hoof and Claw - Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
Hoof and Claw - Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
- Author: Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
- Genre: Single Author Collections
These 14 short stories about animals are superb examples of Roberts smooth storytelling style. Knows as the Father of Canadian Poetry, he loved to also write in prose about the wilderness and the personalities of the animals to be found there as...
A Thin Ghost And Others - M. R. JAMES
A Thin Ghost And Others - M. R. JAMES
- Author: M. R. JAMES
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
Five ghost stories, published in 1920, by the early twentieth century master of ghostery. - Summary by david wales...
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 2, 1844 to 1847 - Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 2, 1844 to 1847 - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Single Author Collections
A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. (Summary by Kristingj)...
Selected Works: Letters, Sketches and Stories - Voltairine de Cleyre
Selected Works: Letters, Sketches and Stories - Voltairine de Cleyre
- Author: Voltairine de Cleyre
- Genre: Single Author Collections / Literary Collections
Voltairine de Cleyre was an American anarchist. She was skilled in many subjects and wrote essays, poems, letters, sketches, stories and speeches. These are her selected letters, sketches and stories. (Summary by enko)...
Wounds In The Rain; War Stories - Stephen Crane
Wounds In The Rain; War Stories - Stephen Crane
- Author: Stephen Crane
- Genre: War & Military Fiction / Published 1800 -1900 / Single Author Collections
Eleven stories of war by the author of The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane was an American author. He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation. Crane's writing is characterized by vivid intensity,...
The Human Boy Again - Eden PHILLPOTTS
The Human Boy Again - Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Author: Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories / Single Author Collections
Published in 1908, this is a further collection of twelve humorous short stories about English school boys. The author wrote two other books in this series: The Human Boy (1900) and The Human Boy And The War (1916). Eden Phillpotts was popular with...
The Blue Flower - Henry van Dyke
The Blue Flower - Henry van Dyke
- Author: Henry van Dyke
- Genre: Single Author Collections
"Sometimes short stories are brought together like parcels in a basket. Sometimes they grow together like blossoms on a bush. Then, of course, they really belong to one another, because they have the same life in them. ...There is such a thought in...
Round The Fire Stories - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Round The Fire Stories - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Single Author Collections
In the present [1908] collection those [stories] have been brought together which are concerned with the grotesque and with the terrible—such tales as might well be read “round the fire” upon a winter’s night. This would be my ideal atmosphere for...
The Mystery Of Choice - Robert W. Chambers
The Mystery Of Choice - Robert W. Chambers
- Author: Robert W. Chambers
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Single Author Collections
The Mystery of Choice is a collection of short horror stories written by Robert W. Chambers. The stories, set in France, are known for their heavy use of nature imagery. - Summary by Veronica Maresh Mead...
The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon, and other humorous tales - Richard Connell
The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon, and other humorous tales - Richard Connell
- Author: Richard Connell
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections
Collection of short stories originally published in the Saturday Evening Post....
Not That it Matters (Version 2) - A. A. MILNE
Not That it Matters (Version 2) - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire / Single Author Collections
A. A. MILNE: …was best known for the perennially popular Pooh (Winnie the), arguably one of his lesser contributions to the literature of his day. He was highly acclaimed for dozens of popular plays. Moreover, he was both a contributor to and editor...
Something Childish and Other Stories - Katherine Mansfield
Something Childish and Other Stories - Katherine Mansfield
- Author: Katherine Mansfield
- Genre: Single Author Collections
This posthumous collection of stories and sketches by the New Zealand modernist author was published the year after her death from tuberculosis in 1923. It appeared in the US under the title The Little Girl. Most of the stories were written between...
Some Short Christmas Stories - Charles Dickens
Some Short Christmas Stories - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1800 -1900 / Single Author Collections
Here are some classic, short Christmas stories from Charles Dickens, who, one may easily argue, was the greatest Christmas storyteller to date. In this season, may we do as Dickens' asked: "Welcome, everything! Welcome, alike what has been, and what...
The Night-Born - Jack London
The Night-Born - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Ten short stories on various themes and subjects, all more or less bizarre. The Night-Born is about a woman who draws inspiration to change her life from an article she chanced to read. In The Benefit of the Doubt, a crooked judge gets a lesson in...
The Holiday Round - A. A. MILNE
The Holiday Round - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Satire / Single Author Collections / Essays & Short Works
Alan Alexander Milne, popularly known as A. A. Milne, is best known – perhaps to most people only known – for his children’s book, Winnie the Pooh. Yet he was an incredibly prolific author. He published dozens of successful plays, myriad humorous...
Martin Hewitt, Investigator - Arthur Morrison
Martin Hewitt, Investigator - Arthur Morrison
- Author: Arthur Morrison
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Single Author Collections
Here are seven mystery stories featuring Martin Hewitt, Detective, and narrated (of course) by his (nameless) sidekick. Arthur Morrison certainly has imagination, as shown by the very wide range of situations, motivations, crimes and characters he...
Europe and Elsewhere - Mark Twain
Europe and Elsewhere - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections / Essays & Short Works
This collection of articles came from Mark Twain's travels and experiences abroad. While many had been previously published, there also were many that had never before seen the light of day...which one reviewer said had never been Twain's intent for...
Scottish Ghost Stories - Elliott O'DONNELL
Scottish Ghost Stories - Elliott O'DONNELL
- Author: Elliott O'DONNELL
- Genre: Single Author Collections
A public domain collection of Scottish Ghost tales by Elliott O'Donnell. 1911 - Summary by Sherry Morrow...
Short Stories (All the Year Round, 1859-1863) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Short Stories (All the Year Round, 1859-1863) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: Single Author Collections
In 1859 Charles Dickens launched a new weekly journal, All the Year Round, to replace Household Words. Elizabeth Gaskell remained a prolific contributor until 1863. Her fictional contributions feature strong female characters and have a darker tone...
If I May (Version 2) - A. A. MILNE
If I May (Version 2) - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Single Author Collections / Essays & Short Works / Humor
A. A. Milne, best known as the creator of Winnie the Pooh, was a prolific author of books, plays, essays and articles. He also spent a number of years editing for Punch Magazine. He even wrote a good detective story -- The Red House Mystery ! In...
The Sunny Side (Version 2) - A. A. MILNE
The Sunny Side (Version 2) - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Anthologies / Single Author Collections
A. A. Milne is best known for his creation of the perennially popular Winnie the Pooh, though he was and is highly acclaimed for hundreds of gently humorous essays and poems published in, among other famous venues, Punch Magazine, most of which have...
Once A Week (Version 2) - A. A. MILNE
Once A Week (Version 2) - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections / Essays & Short Works
Once A Week is a collection of short stories and slightly longer vignettes which were written for Milne's solid British Audience, including regular readers of Punch -- between1903, when he graduated from Cambridge and 1906, when he began also to...
Nellie Brown, or, The Jealous Wife, With Other Sketches - Thomas P. Detter
Nellie Brown, or, The Jealous Wife, With Other Sketches - Thomas P. Detter
- Author: Thomas P. Detter
- Genre: Single Author Collections
READERS The design of this work is to show the unhappy results of jealousy and misplaced confidence, arid the wicked designs of corrupt parties. Man and woman were created for a noble purpose by their Creator; but how often do we see families that...
Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories - Ralph Adams Cram
Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories - Ralph Adams Cram
- Author: Ralph Adams Cram
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Single Author Collections
A collection of six ghostly tales by Ralph Adams Cram, ranging from the demonic to the deeply sad. Gruesome apparitions, oppressive atmosphere, and throughout it all, a profound appreciation for the haunting beauty of Europe through the eyes of an...
The Loot Of Cities - Arnold Bennett
The Loot Of Cities - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Single Author Collections
Published in 1917, this is a collection of a novella and seven short stories by one of the cleverest authors of the early twentieth century. ‘In Queen's Quorum (1951), a survey of crime fiction, Ellery Queen listed Bennett's The Loot of Cities among...
The Fiend's Delight - Ambrose Bierce
The Fiend's Delight - Ambrose Bierce
- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Genre: Satire / Published before 1800 / Single Author Collections
This book, the fiend’s delight, was published in 1873, during the lifetime of author Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914, pseudonym Dod Grile. It is a collection of short stories which cover many subjects. Dependent upon the reader the stories may seem...
Zigzags of Treachery and other stories - Dashiell Hammett
Zigzags of Treachery and other stories - Dashiell Hammett
- Author: Dashiell Hammett
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Single Author Collections
The death of a well known San Francisco doctor brings a charge of murder for his wife, but is it murder or suicide, and is she really his wife? The Continental Op is on the case in Dashiell Hammett’s “Zigzags of Treachery,” featured here along with...
Loup-garou! - Eden PHILLPOTTS
Loup-garou! - Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Author: Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Single Author Collections
A book of short stories by Eden Phillpotts, all involving something of the supernatural. - Summary by Ann Boulais...
The £1,000,000 Bank-Note & other new Stories - Mark Twain
The £1,000,000 Bank-Note & other new Stories - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Single Author Collections
Collection contains: -The £1,000,000 Bank-Note -Mental Telegraphy -A Cure for the Blues -The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant -About all Kinds of Ships -Playing Courier -The German Chicago -A Petition to the Queen of England -A Majestic Literary...
Miss Bracegirdle and Others - Stacy Aumonier
Miss Bracegirdle and Others - Stacy Aumonier
- Author: Stacy Aumonier
- Genre: Single Author Collections
A 1923 collection of tales by the British author Stacy Aumonier (1877–1928), described by John Galsworthy as "one of the best short-story writers of all time." This collection includes two of Aumonier's best-known works, "The Octave of Jealousy" and...
Short Stories in Prose and Verse - Henry Lawson
Short Stories in Prose and Verse - Henry Lawson
- Author: Henry Lawson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Single Author Collections
Short Stories in Prose and Verse” is Henry Lawson’s first published book (1894); his first published poem appeared in 1887. The volume is a snapshot of his writing style up to the start of his career. His first published poem appeared at age 20, his...
The Cloak (Version 2) - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
The Cloak (Version 2) - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
- Author: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900 / Single Author Collections
The Cloak or the Overcoat as in some translations, is a story by Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story and its author have had great influence on Russian literature, as expressed in a quote attributed to Fyodor...
South Sea Tales - Jack London
South Sea Tales - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Single Author Collections
The eight short stories that comprise South Sea Tales are powerful tales that vividly evoke the early 1900’s colonial South Pacific islands. Tales of hurricanes, missionaries, brotherhood and seafaring are intertwined with enslavement, savagery, and...
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant - Guy de Maupassant
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant - Guy de Maupassant
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Satire / Single Author Collections
Guy de Maupassant was, and is to this day, one of the world's most celebrated short story writers. He famously tackled topics like the Franco-Prussian War and the disillusionment of life and relationships. This collection of his works, containing...
Two Supernatural Stories - Perceval Landon
Two Supernatural Stories - Perceval Landon
- Author: Perceval Landon
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Gothic Fiction / Single Author Collections
Perceval Landon was a journalist and short story author, and in these two tales he explored the supernatural. In ‘Railhead’, a man receives an urgent message – from an out-of-service telegraph. In ‘Thurnley Abbey’, the titular abbey’s past might be...
The Strength of the Strong - Jack London
The Strength of the Strong - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Seven short stories, written around the middle of London's writing career. The stories take place in diverse settings and time periods, from prehistoric times to the future. Plots include a worldwide work strike, a sociopath serial killer, a sailor...
The Grim Smile Of The Five Towns - Arnold Bennett
The Grim Smile Of The Five Towns - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Single Author Collections
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns (1907) is the second major collection of stories written by Arnold Bennett. (The first is Tales Of The Five Towns, 1905, available at Librivox.).The five towns of the title are the conurbation of Stoke-on-Trent in...
The Black Dog and Other Stories - A. E. Coppard
The Black Dog and Other Stories - A. E. Coppard
- Author: A. E. Coppard
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Coppard was renowned for his influence on the English short story and here we present a collection, first published in 1923, featuring 18 of his best known works, including Simple Simon, the Wife of Ted Wickham and The Devil in the Churchyard....
Tales of Unrest (version 2) - Joseph Conrad
Tales of Unrest (version 2) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Single Author Collections
A brave Malay chieftain suffers from a surprising vulnerability. After giving birth to a series of unfortunate children, a farmer's wife is determined to bear no more. A spoonful of sugar brings a neophyte ivory trader to a moment of Nietzschean...
