Short Story Classics:
The Best from the
Masters of the Genre

Kate Chopin

Nathaniel
Hawthorne

James Joyce

• Washington Irving (1783-1859)
• The Stout Gentleman
• The Adventure of the German Student
• The Specter Bridegroom
• Rip Van Winkle
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• The Widow and Her Son
• The Devil and Tom Walker
• Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
• La Grande Breteche
• The Red Inn
• The Atheist's Mass
• Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)
• Slavery's Pleasant Homes
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
• My Kinsman, Major Molineux
• Young Goodman Brown
• The Birth-mark
• Rappaccini’s Daughter
• The Minister’s Black Veil
• The May-Pole of Merry Mount
• The Snow-Image
• Lady Eleanore's Mantle
• Alice Doan's Appeal
• Ethan Brand
• Wakefield
• The Gentle Boy
• Endicott and the Red Cross
• Feathertop
• The Gray Champion
• The Great Carbuncle
• The Great Stone Face
• The Ambitious Guest
• The Wives of the Dead
• Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)
• The Overcoat
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
• The Murders in the Rue Morgue
• The Gold-Bug
• The Tell-Tale Heart
• The Cask of Amontillado
• Ligeia
• The Black Cat
• MS. Found in a Bottle
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Purloined Letter
• William Wilson
• The Pit and the Pendulum
• The Imp of the Perverse
• Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865)
• The Manchester Marriage
• Half-Brothers
• The Old Nurse's Story
• Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
• The Schoolboy's Story
• A Christmas Carol
• Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873)
• The Murdered Cousin    NEW
• Squire Toby's Will     NEW
• Laura Silver Bell    NEW
• An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street
• Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1815-1852)
• The Angel Over the Right Shoulder
• Thomas Bangs Thorpe (1815-1878)
• The Big Bear of Arkansas
• Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)
• Yermolai and the Miller's Wife
• Herman Melville (1819-1891)
• Bartleby, the Scrivener
• Billy Budd, Foretopman
• I and My Chimney
• Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
• Notes From Underground
• Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
• A Simple Heart
• Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (1823-1902)
• Lemorne Versus Huell    NEW
• Henry Clay Lewis (1825-1850)
• The Indefatigable Bear-Hunter    NEW
• Love in a Garden    NEW
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
• The Two Offers    NEW
• Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892)
• Dely's Cow
• About Dolly
• Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
• The Death of Ivan Ilych
• Amelia B. Edwards (1831-1892)
• The Phantom Coach    NEW
• The Four-Fifteen Express    NEW
• Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)
• Life in the Iron-Mills
• Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
• A Modern Cinderella: Or, The Little Old Shoe
• Frank Stockton (1834-1902)
• The Lady or the Tiger
• The Griffin and the Minor Canon
• The Widow's Cruise
• My Unwilling Neighbor
• A Piece of Red Calico
• Love Before Breakfast
• Captain Eli's Best Ear
• The Christmas Wreck
• Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)
• Circumstance    NEW
• Mark Twain (1835-1910)
• The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
• The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
• The Story of the Old Ram
• The Californian's Tale
• The Story of the Bad Boy Who Didn't Come to Grief
• The Mysterious Stranger
• The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)
• Marjorie Daw
• Bret Harte (1836-1902)
• The Luck of Roaring Camp
• Tennessee’s Partner
• The Outcasts of Poker Flat
• The Idyll of Red Gulch
• William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
• Editha
• Villiers de l’Isle-Adam (1838-1889)
• The Torture of Hope    NEW
• Vera    NEW
• Olympe and Henrietta    NEW
• The Desire to be a Man    NEW
• Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897)
• The Last Lesson
• Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894)
• Peter, the Parson    NEW
• Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
• Squire Petrick's Lady
• Giovanni Verga (1840-1922)
• The Saint Joseph's Ass
• Emile Zola (1840-1902)
• The Death of Olivier Becaille
• W. H. Hudson (1841-1922)
• Story of a Piebald Horse    NEW
• Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
• The Damned Thing
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
• One of the Missing
• One Summer Night
• A Horseman in the Sky
• What I Saw of Shiloh
• George Thurston
• Killed at Resaca
• Chickamauga
• Henry James (1843-1916)
• The Sweetheart Of M. Briseux    NEW
• Daisy Miller: A Study
• The Beast in the Jungle
• The Great Good Place
• The Story in it
• The Real Thing
• George Washington Cable (1844-1925)
• Belles Demoiselles Plantation
• Bram Stoker (1847-1912)
• Dracula's Guest    NEW
• Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)
• Brer Rabbit and the Tar-Baby
• Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
• A White Heron
• Miss Tempy's Watchers
• The Hiltons' Holiday
• The Foreigner
• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
• Markheim
• The Bottle Imp
• The Body-Snatcher
• Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
• The Necklace
• The Jewels of M. Lantin
• The Trip of the Horla
• The Grave
• Ella D'Arcy (1851-1939)
• A Marriage    NEW
• The Death Mask    NEW
• Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
• At The 'Cadian Ball
• The Storm [A Sequel to "At the 'Cadian Ball"]
• Regret
• Ozème's Holiday
• At Chênière Caminada
• The Story of an Hour
• A Respectable Woman
• Grace King (1852-1932)
• The Little Convent Girl    NEW
• Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)
• The Revolt of "Mother"
• A New England Nun
• A Church Mouse
• Old Woman Magoun
• The Lost Ghost
• A Mistaken Charity
• One Good Time
• Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
• Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
• The Canterville Ghost
• Harold Frederic (1856-1898)
• The Eve of the Fourth    NEW
• Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
• Youth
• The Secret Sharer
• Heart of Darkness
• Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932)
• The Sheriff's Children
• The Goophered Grapevine
• Po' Sandy
• Dave's Neckliss
• The Wife of His Youth
• Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
• A Scandal in Bohemia
• The Red-Headed League
• A Case of Identity
• The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
• The Adventure of the Speckled Band
• The Final Problem
• The Adventure of the Empty House
• The Parasite
• Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
• The Darling
• Misery
• The Lady with the Dog
• About Love
• Anna on the Neck
• Gooseberries
• The Grasshopper
• Gusev
• The Huntsman
• The Kiss
• The Teacher of Literature
• The Man in a Case
• The Party
• Peasants
• Oh! the Public
• In the Ravine
• Sleepy
• Small Fry
• The Student
• Vanka
• Ward No. 6
• Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
• Under the Lion's Paw
• The Return of a Private
• Up the Coulee
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
• The Yellow Wall-Paper
• Turned
• M. R. James (1862-1936)
• "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad"     NEW
• Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
• Roman Fever
• Souls Belated
• The Other Two
• O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (1862-1910)
• The Whirligig of Life
• The Cop and the Anthem
• The Gift of the Magi
• A Municipal Report
• The Caballero's Way
• Buried Treasure
• The Ransom of Red Chief
• Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944)
• Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper
• W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943)
• Jerry Bundler    NEW
• The Changeling    NEW
• Angels' Visits    NEW
• In the Family    NEW
• Low Water    NEW
• A Circular Tour    NEW
• The Rival Beauties    NEW
• The Monkey's Paw
• Andrew Barton ‘Banjo' Paterson (1864-1941)
• Three Elephant Power    NEW
• His Masterpiece    NEW
• White-when-he's-wanted    NEW
• Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916)
• How Hefty Burke Got Even
• The Nature Faker
• Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
• Without Benefit of Clergy
• The Mark of the Beast
• The Phantom 'Rickshaw
• 'They'
• The Man Who Would Be King
• The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
• H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
• The Magic Shop
• The Country of the Blind
• The Door in the Wall
• Henry Lawson (1867-1922)
• The Drover's Wife    NEW
• The Golden Graveyard    NEW
• The Hairy Man    NEW
• The Shanty-Keeper’s Wife    NEW
• In a Wet Season    NEW
• Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)
• Twenty-Six Men and a Girl
• Saki [Hector H. Munro] (1870-1916)
• The Lumber-Room
• Gabriel-Ernest
• Tobermory
• The Open Window
• The Cobweb
• The Story-Teller
• Frank Norris (1870-1902)
• Fantaisie Printaniere    NEW
• The Ship That Saw a Ghost    NEW
• The Dual Personality of Slick Dick Nickerson    NEW
• Two Hearts That Beat As One    NEW
• A Deal in Wheat
• A Case for Lombroso
• Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
• An Experiment in Misery
• The Open Boat
• The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
• The Blue Hotel
• The Little Regiment
• The Price of the Harness
• A Detail
• A Mystery of Heroism    NEW
• A Gray Sleeve    NEW
• The Pace Of Youth    NEW
• Three Miraculous Soldiers    NEW
• One Dash-Horses    NEW
• The Mesmeric Mountain    NEW
• Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
• The Lost Phoebe    NEW
• Ida Hauchawout
• Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)
• The Shadowy Third    NEW
• Willa Cather (1873-1947)
• Jack-a-Boy    NEW
• The Burgler's Christmas    NEW
• Paul's Case
• On the Divide
• Lou, the Prophet
• The Enchanted Bluff
• The Affair at Grover Station
• Neighbour Rosicky
• The Bohemian Girl
• On the Gull's Road
• W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
• The Lotus Eater
• Rain
• Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
• Sister Josepha    NEW
• Jack London (1876-1916)
• The Mexican
• The Heathen
• The Seed of McCoy
• South of the Slot
• To Build a Fire
• The Law of Life
• In a Far Country
• All Gold Canyon
• The White Silence
• Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
• I'm a Fool    NEW
• Seeds    NEW
• The Other Woman    NEW
• Unlighted Lamps    NEW
• The Door of the Trap    NEW
• Brothers    NEW
• War    NEW
• Motherhood    NEW
• Senility    NEW
• The Man in the Brown Coat    NEW
• The Philosopher    NEW
• The Egg
• I Want to Know Why
• The New Englander
• Hands
• Mother
• Adventure
• William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918)
• The Voice in the Night
• A.E. Coppard (1878-1957)
• Broadsheet Ballad    NEW
• Arabesque: The Mouse    NEW
• The Hurly-Burly    NEW
• Dorothy Canfield (1879-1958)
• The Artist    NEW
• Damon Runyon (1880-1946)
• The Bloodhounds of Broadway
• James Joyce (1882-1941)
• Araby
• The Sisters
• Eveline
• A Little Cloud
• Counterparts
• Clay
• The Dead
• Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
• Kew Gardens
• The Duchess and the Jeweller
• Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
• The Metamorphosis
• A Hunger Artist
• D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
• The Thorn in the Flesh    NEW
• The Shades of Spring    NEW
• The Christening    NEW
• Odour of Chrysanthemums    NEW
• The White Stocking    NEW
• The Prussian Officer    NEW
• Daughters of the Vicar    NEW
• Adolf
• Monkey Nuts
• Rex
• The Rocking-Horse Winner
• Ring Lardner (1885-1933)
• I Can't Breathe
• My Roomy
• Alibi Ike
• Haircut
• Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
• Miss Brill
• The Garden-Party
• The Doll's House
• The Fly
• Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
• The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
• He
• Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
• Sweat
• Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927)
• In a Grove
• Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
• You Were Perfectly Fine
• Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
• The Gioconda Smile    NEW
• James Thurber (1894-1961)
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984)
• The Reaping Race
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
• The Offshore Pirate
• The Jelly-bean
• The Baby Party
• William Faulkner (1897-1962)
• A Rose for Emily
• Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943)
• The Devil and Daniel Webster
• Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
• The Man on the Threshold
• Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
• First Love
• "That in Aleppo Once . . ."
• Sounds
• Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
• The End of Something    NEW
• My Old Man    NEW
• A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
• A Very Short Story
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro
• The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
• Hills Like White Elephants
• Big Two-Hearted River: Part I
• Big Two-Hearted River: Part II
• Cat in the Rain
• The Killers
• Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)
• The Lost Boy
• Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
• Thank You, Ma'm
• John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
• The Chrysanthemums
• Frank O'Connor (1903-1966)
• The Drunkard
• My Oedipus Complex
• Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987)
• Kneel to the Rising Sun
• Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)
• The Spinoza of Market Street
• Eudora Welty (1909-2001)
• Why I Live at the P.O.
• Petrified Man
• A Curtain of Green
• John Cheever (1912-1982)
• The Swimmer
• Julio Cortazar (1914-1984)
• Axolotl
• Octavio Paz (1914-1998)
• My Life with the Wave
• Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
• Battle Royal
• Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)
• The Magic Barrel
• Shirley Jackson (1916-1965)
• The Lottery
• Carson McCullers (1917-1967)
• The Sojourner    NEW
• A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.
• Yuri Markovich Nagibin (1920-1994)
• My First and Most Beloved Friend    NEW
• Truman Capote (1924-1984)
• A Christmas Memory
• Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
• Everything That Rises Must Converge
• Good Country People
• Greenleaf
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b.1928)
• A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings