Short Stories (Bookshelf)

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Short Stories are a form of short fictional narrative prose. Short stories tend to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction, such as novellas (in the modern sense of this term) and novels. Because of their brevity, successful short stories rely on literary devices such as character, plot, theme, language, and insight to a greater extent than long form fiction.

—Excerpted from Short Story on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.


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Africa

  • Stories by English Authors: Africa stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • Gregorio by Percy Addleshaw
    • Mary Musgrave by Anonymous
    • The Mystery of Sasassa Valley by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    • Long Odds by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
    • King Bemba's Point by J. Landers
    • Ghamba by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

Asia

  • Stories by English Authors: The Orient stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • The revenge of her race by Mary Beaumont
    • A Chinese girl graduate by Robert K. (Robert Kennaway) Douglas
    • The man who would be king by Rudyard Kipling
    • Tajima by Mary Russell Mitford
    • King Billy of Ballarat by Morley Roberts
    • Thy heart's desire by Netta Syrett

Europe

France

  • International Short Stories: French stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • The Vase Of Clay by Jean Aicard
    • The Elixir Of Life by Honoré de Balzac
    • The Birds In The Letter-Box by René Bazin
    • The Age For Love by Paul Bourget
    • Tonton by A. Cheneviere
    • A Piece Of Bread by François Coppée
    • The Last Lesson by Alphonse Daudet
    • Solange by Alexandre Dumas père
    • A Forest Betrothal by Erckmann-Chatrian
    • My Nephew Joseph by Ludovic Halevy
    • A Fight With A Cannon by Victor Hugo
    • The Guilty Secret by Paul de Kock
    • Gil Blas And Dr. Sangrado by Alain René Le Sage
    • Abandoned by Guy de Maupassant
    • The Mirror by Catulle Mendès
    • Mateo Falcone by Prosper Mérimée
    • The Passage Of The Red Sea by Henry Murger
    • Croisilles by Alfred de Musset
    • The Woman And The Cat by Marcel Prévost
    • Baron De Trenck by Clémence Robert
    • Jean Monette by Eugène François Vidocq
    • Zadig The Babylonian by Voltaire
    • Jean Gourdon's Four Days by Émile Zola
  • Stories By English Authors: France stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins
    • A Leaf in the Storm by Ouida
    • A Lodging for the Night by Robert Louis Stevenson
    • Michel Lorio's Cross by Hesba Stretton
    • A Perilous Amour by Stanley John Weyman

Germany

  • Stories by English Authors: Germany stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • Queen Tita's Wager by William Black
    • The Bird on its Journey by Beatrice Harraden
    • A Dog of Flanders by Ouida
    • Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson
    • Koosje : a Study of Dutch Life by John Strange Winter

Spain

  • First Love : And Other Fascinating Stories of Spanish Life stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • Captain Veneno's Proposal of Marriage by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
    • An Andalusian Duel by Serafín Estébanez Calderón
    • Mariquita the Bald by Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch
    • The Love of Clotilde by Armando Palacio Valdés
    • First Love by Emilia condesa de Pardo Bazán
  • Stories by Foreign Authors: Spanish stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • Moors and Christians by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
    • The Tall Woman by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
    • The Organist by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
    • Bread Cast Upon the Waters by Fernán Caballero
    • The White Butterfly by José Selgas y Carrasco

United Kingdom

  • The Lock and Key Library : Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • The Great Valdez Sapphire by Anonymous
    • The Lost Duchess by Anonymous
    • The Minor Canon by Anonymous
    • The Pipe by Anonymous
    • The Puzzle by Anonymous
    • The Baron's Quarry by Egerton Castle
    • The Dream Woman by Wilkie Collins
    • A Case of Identity by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    • A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    • The Red-Headed League by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    • His Wedded Wife by Rudyard Kipling
    • In the House of Suddhoo by Rudyard Kipling
    • My Own True Ghost Story by Rudyard Kipling
    • The Sending of Dana Da by Rudyard Kipling
    • The Pavilion on the Links by Robert Louis Stevenson
    • The Fowl in the Pot by Stanley John Weyman
  • The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • Bourgonef by Anonymous
    • The Closed Cabinet by Anonymous
    • The Avenger by Thomas De Quincey
    • The Haunted House by Charles Dickens
    • No. I Branch Line: The Signal Man by Dickens
    • The Haunted and the Haunters by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton
    • The House and the Brain by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton
    • The Incantation by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton
    • Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Rober Maturin
    • A Mystery with a Moral by Laurence Sterne
    • On Being Found Out by William Makepeace Thackeray
    • The Notch on the Ax by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Stories by English Authors: England stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • Mr. Lismore and the Widow by Wilkie Collins
    • The Four-Fifteen Express by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards
    • The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy
    • The Philosopher in the Apple Orchard by Anthony Hope
    • The Wrong Black Bag by Angelo Lewis
    • The Box Tunnel by Charles Reade
    • Minions of the Moon by F. W. (Frederick William) Robinson
  • Stories by English Authors: Ireland stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • The Banshee by Anonymous
    • The Rival Dreamers by John Banim
    • A Lost Recruit by Jane Barlow
    • Neal Malone by William Carleton
    • The Emergency Men by George H. Jessop
    • The Gridiron by Samuel Lover
  • Stories by English Authors: London stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • The Black Poodle by F. Anstey
    • The Inconsiderate Waiter by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
    • The Hired Baby by Marie Corelli
    • An Idyl of London by Beatrice Harraden
    • That Brute Simmons by Arthur Morrison
    • The Omnibus by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
    • A Rose of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
  • Stories by English Authors: Scotland stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • The Glenmutchkin Railway by W. E. (William Edmondstoune) Aytoun
    • The Courting of T'nowhead's Bell by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
    • The Heather Lintie by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
    • A Doctor of the Old School by Ian [pseud.] Maclaren
    • Wandering Willie's Tale by Walter Scott
    • Thrawn Janet by Robert Louis Stevenson

Russia & Scandinavia

  • Best Russian Short Stories stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • Lazarus by Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
    • The Revolutionist by Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev
    • The Bet by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
    • The Darling by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
    • Vanka by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
    • The Christmas Tree and the Wedding by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    • The Signal by Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin
    • The Cloak by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
    • Her Lover by Maksim Gorky
    • One Autumn Night by Maksim Gorky
    • The Shades, a Phantasy by Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko
    • The Outrage by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin
    • Dethroned by Ignatii Nicholaevich Potapenko
    • The Queen Of Spades by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
    • How a Muzhik Fed Two Officials by Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov
    • The Servant by S. T. (Sergei Terentyevich) Semenov
    • Hide And Seek by Fyodor Sologub
    • God Sees the Truth, but Waits by Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy
    • The District Doctor by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
  • The Lock and Key Library : The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: North Europe — Russian — Swedish — Danish — Hungarian stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • The Dancing Bear by Etienne Barsony
    • The Amputated Arms by Vilhelm Bergsøe
    • The Rector of Veilbye by Steen Steensen Blicher
    • The Safety Match by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
    • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    • The Tower Room by Arthur Elck
    • The Sealed Room by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
    • Thirteen at Table by Mór Jókai
    • Knights of Industry by Vsevolod Vladimirovich Krestovskii
    • The Manuscript by Otto Larssen
    • The Living Death by Ferenc Molnár
    • The Queen Of Spades by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
    • The General's Will by Vera Petrovna Zhelikhovskaia
  • Seven Icelandic Short Stories stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • The Story of Audunn and The Bear by Anonymous
    • A Dry Spell by Einar H. Kvaran
    • The Old Hay by Guðmundur Friðjónsson
    • The Fox Skin by Guðmundur G. Hagalin
    • Father and Son by Gunnar Gunnarsson
    • New Iceland by Halldór Laxness
    • When I Was On the Frigate by Jon Trausti
  • Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • St. John's Eve by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
    • The Shot by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
    • An Old Acquaintance by Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy
    • Mumu by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
  • Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • When Father Brought Home The Lamp by Juhani Aho
    • The Father by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
    • The Railroad And The Churchyard by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
    • Hopes by Fredrika Bremer
    • The Flying Mail by Meïr Goldschmidt
    • Two Friends by Alexander Lange Kielland


United States

  • The Best American Humorous Short Stories stock_book_yellow-16.png
    • The Nice People by H. C. (Henry Cuyler) Bunner
    • Bargain Day At Tutt House by George Randolph Chester
    • A Call by Grace MacGowan Cooke
    • Titbottom's Spectacles by George William Curtis
    • Elder Brown's Backslide by Harry Stillwell Edwards
    • My Double; And How He Undid Me by Edward Everett Hale
    • Colonel Starbottle For The Plaintiff by Bret Harte
    • Gideon by Wells Hastings
    • The Duplicity Of Hargraves by O. Henry
    • A Visit To The Asylum For Aged And Decayed Punsters by Oliver Wendell Holmes
    • The Hotel Experience Of Mr. Pink Fluker by Richard Malcolm Johnston
    • The Schoolmaster's Progress by Caroline M. (Caroline Matilda) Kirkland
    • How The Widow Won The Deacon by William James Lampton
    • The Watkinson Evening by Eliza Leslie
    • The Little Frenchman And His Water Lots by George Pope Morris
    • The Angel Of The Odd by Edgar Allan Poe
    • The Buller-Podington Compact by Frank Richard Stockton
    • The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County by Mark Twain
  • The Lock and Key Library : The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: American stock_book_yellow-16.png
    • Horror: A True Tale by Anonymous
    • An Heiress from Redhorse by Ambrose Bierce
    • The Man and the Snake by Ambrose Bierce
    • Wieland's Madness by Charles Brockden Brown
    • By the Waters of Paradise by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
    • The Shadows On The Wall by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
    • The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • Adventure of the Black Fisherman by Washington Irving
    • Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams by Washington Irving
    • My Wife's Tempter by Fitz James O'Brien
    • The Golden Ingot by Fitz James O'Brien
    • The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe
    • The Oblong Box by Edgar Allan Poe
    • The Corpus Delicti by Melville Davisson Post
  • Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 stock_book_yellow-16.png
    • Why Thomas Was Discharged by George Arnold
    • The End of New York by Park Benjamin
    • A Light Man by Henry James
    • Yatil by F. D. (Francis Davis) Millet
    • The Tachypomp by Edward Page Mitchell

Other

  • Famous Modern Ghost Stories stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • Lazarus by Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
    • The Middle Toe Of The Right Foot by Ambrose Bierce
    • The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
    • The Messenger by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
    • At The Gate by Myla Jo Closser
    • The Shell Of Sense by Olivia Howard Dunbar
    • The Mass Of Shadows by Anatole France
    • The Shadows On The Wall by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
    • The Beast With Five Fingers by F. W. (Frederick William) Harvey
    • Woman At Seven Brothers, The by Richard Le Gallienne
    • The Bowmen by Arthur Machen
    • What Was It? by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
    • Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe
    • A Ghost by Guy de Maupassant
  • The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • Rab and His Friends by Dr. John Brown
    • The Apparition of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe
    • The Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn by Charles Dickens
    • The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy
    • The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte
    • Dr. Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • The Mysterious Bride by James Hogg
    • The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving
    • Julia Bride by Henry James
    • The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
    • A Lodging for the Night by Robert Louis Stevenson
    • A Story of Seven Devils by Frank R. Stockton
    • A Dog's Tale by Mark Twain
  • Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • The Nail by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
    • The Adventure of the Three Robbers by Lucius Apuleius
    • Melmoth Reconciled by Honoré de Balzac
    • The Conscript by Honoré de Balzac
    • The Deposition by Luigi Capuana
    • The Invisible Eye by Erckmann-Chatrian
    • The Owl's Ear by Erckmann-Chatrian
    • The Waters of Death by Erckmann-Chatrian
    • An Uncomfortable Bed by Guy de Maupassant
    • Fear by Guy de Maupassant
    • Ghosts by Guy de Maupassant
    • The Confession by Guy de Maupassant
    • The Horla by Guy de Maupassant
    • The Man with the Pale Eyes by Guy de Maupassant
    • The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
    • The Miracle of Zobéide by Pierre Mille
    • Letter to Sura by Pliny, the Younger
    • The Torture by Hope by Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
    • Zadig The Babylonian by Voltaire
  • The Lock and Key Library : The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: Real life stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • A Doctor of the Occult by David Phelps Abbott
    • Fraudulent Spiritualism Unveiled by David Phelps Abbott
    • How the Tricks Succeeded by David Phelps Abbott
    • Mind Reading in Public by David Phelps Abbott
    • Some Famous Exposures by David Phelps Abbott
    • The Name of the Dead by David Phelps Abbott
    • How Spirits Materialize by Anonymous
    • Matter through Matter by Hereward Carrington
    • Deception Explained by the Science of Psychology by Hereward Carrington
    • More Tricks of "Spiritualism" by Hereward Carrington
    • Saint-Germain the Deathless by Andrew Lang
    • The Man in the Iron Mask by Andrew Lang
    • Second Sight by Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin
    • A Conjurer's Confessions by Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin
    • Facing the Arab's Pistol by Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin
    • Self-Training by Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin
    • The Magician Who Became an Ambassador by Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin
    • A Flight into Texas by Arthur Cheney Train
    • A Formidable Weapon by Patrick Henry Woodward
    • A Wish Unexpectedly Gratified by Patrick Henry Woodward
    • Adventures in the Secret Service of the Post-Office Department by Patrick Henry Woodward
    • An Aspirant for Congress by Patrick Henry Woodward
    • An Erring Shepherd by Patrick Henry Woodward
    • An Old Game Revived by Patrick Henry Woodward
    • The Fortune of Seth Savage by Patrick Henry Woodward
  • Short Stories of Various Types stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
    • A Reward of Merit by Booth Tarkington
    • "American, Sir!" by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
    • John G. by Katherine Mayo
    • Friends by Myra Kelly
    • A Camping Trip by Hamlin Garland
    • A Thread Without a Knot by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
    • Chu Chu by Francis Bret Harte
    • Feathertop by Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • The Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle
    • The Inconsiderate Waiter by James Matthew Barrie
    • The Siege of Berlin by Alphonse Daudet
    • The Silver Mine by Selma Lagerlöf
  • Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • Anthony Garstin's Courtship by Hubert Crackanthorpe
    • A Little Grey Glove by George Egerton
    • Angela, an Inverted Love Story by W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir Gilbert
    • The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne by Anthony Trollope
    • The Woman Beater by Israel Zangwill
  • Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • The Solid Gold Reef Company, Limited by Sir Walter Besant
    • The Manchester Marriage by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
    • A Mere Interlude by Thomas Hardy
    • The Tree Of Knowledge by Henry James
    • A Faithful Heart by George (George Augustus) Moore
  • Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages stock_book_yellow-16.png (English)
    • The Adventure of the Abbey Grang by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle\
    • The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case by Rudyard Kipling
    • Irremediable by Ella D'Arcy
    • A Poor Stick by Arthur Morrison
    • The Prize Lodger by George Gissing
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