Short Story Books

The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII

Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant was a French writer, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the naturalist school of writers, who depicted human lives and destinies and social fo..

The Aspern Papers

Henry James

The Aspern Papers is a novella by American writer Henry James, originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1888, with its first book publication later in the same year...

The Burgess Animal Book for Children

Thornton W. Burgess

The Burgess Animal Book for Children is a collection of seven animal stories featuring such characters as Peter Rabbit, Reddy Fox, and Baby Coon, that teach the reader about right and wrong...

The Annals of the Poor

Legh Richmond

The Annals of the Poor is a juvenile fiction story written by Legh Richmond, a Church of England clergyman and writer. He is noted for tracts, narratives of conversion that innovated in the relat..

Mogens, and Other Storie

J. P. Jacobsen

Mogens, and Other Stories is a collection of Danish short stories written byJens Peter Jacobsen, a Danish novelist, poet, and scientist, in Denmark often just written as "J. P. Jacobsen". He bega..

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

H. P. Lovecraft

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a short horror novel by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in early 1927, but not published during the author's lifetime...

Count Bunker

J. Storer Clouston

Count Bunker is the sequel to J. Storer Clouston's wildly popular comedic romp, The Lunatic at Large. In this equally amusing follow-up, old pals Baron Rudolph von Blitzenberg and Francis Mandell-Essi..

Pygmalion's Spectacles

Stanley G. Weinbaum

Pygmalion's Spectacles is a collection of short science fiction stories written by Stanley G. Weinbaum,  an American science fiction writer. His first story, "A Martian Odyssey", was pu..