Short Story Books

Life's Handicap - Being Stories of Mine Own People

Rudyard Kipling

Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. The collection includes The Lang men o' Larut, Reingelder and the German flag, The wand..

De Decamerone van Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Boccaccio wrote a number of notable works, including The Decameron and On Famous Women..

Round the Sofa

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Round the Sofa is an 1859 2-volume collection consisting of a novel with a story preface and five short stories by Elizabeth Gaskell.  The first volume consists of the novel My Lady Ludlow prefac..

A Charmed Life

Richard Harding Davis

A Charmed Life is a fictional short story written by Richard Harding Davis. The main room of the house was now in darkness, but a smaller room adjoining it was lit by candles, and by a tiny ..

The Wall Between

Sara Ware Bassett

The Wall Between is a love story written by Sara Ware Bassett , an American author of fiction and nonfiction. Her novels primarily deal with New England characters, and most of them are set in two fic..

The Gift of the Magi

O. Henry

The Gift of the Magi is a short story by O. Henry first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each ot..

The Ramblin' Kid

Earl Wayland Bowman

The Ramblin' Kid is a collection of western short stories written by Earl Wayland Bowman.I A NIGHT LETTERII A BLUFF CALLEDIII WHICH ONE'S WHICHIV THE UNUSED PLATEV A DUEL OF ENDURANCEVI YOU'RE A ..

The Parenticide Club

Ambrose Bierce

The Parenticide Club is a collection of horror tales written by Ambrose Bierce, an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and Civil War veteran. Bierce's book The Devil's Dictionary ..