Short Story Books

The Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the Bicycle

Annie Fellows Johnston

The Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the Bicycle is a short story for children written by Annie Fellows Johnston whose other writings includes "The Little Colonel" Series, "Big Brother," "The St..

The Best American Humorous Short Stories

H. C. Bunner

This volume does not aim to contain all the best American humorous short stories there are many other stories equally as good, I suppose, in much the same vein, scattered through the range of American..

A Simple Act of Piety

Achmed Abdullah

A Simple Act of Piety is a short written by Achmed Abdullah which is published as part of the book The Best Short Stories of 1918 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story...

After London; Or, Wild England

Richard Jefferies

After London; Or, Wild England is dystopian science fiction story written by Richard Jefferies.  The meadows were green, and so was the rising wheat which had been sown, but which ..

The Book of Dreams and Ghosts

Andrew Lang

The Book of Dreams and Ghosts is a collection of stories by Andrew Lang. The chief purpose of this book is, if fortune helps, to entertain people interested in the kind of narratives here collected.&n..

The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton is a collection of short stories published in ten volumes collection. ..

Aladdin and the Magic Lamp

Anonymous

The story of Aladdin is a Middle-Eastern folk tale that is included in A Thousand and One Nights, and is the story of a poor boy in a Chinese city. Aladdin is convinced by a sorcerer to fetch a magic ..

The Dead

James Joyce

This novella is the final story in Joyce’s collection Dubliners. It describes a Christmas party given by Kate and Julia Morkan, two elderly Dublin ladies, that is attended by their nephew, Gabriel Con..