Short Story Books

Going into Society

Charles Dickens

Going into Society is short story written by Charles Dickens. Excerpts belowAt one period of its reverses, the House fell into the occupation of a Showman.  He was found registered as its occupie..

The Poison Belt

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Poison Belt is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, the second book about Professor Challenger. Written in 1913, much of it takes place in a single room in Challenger's ho..

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Stephen Leacock

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literat..

Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo

William Le Queux

Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo is a collection of mystery and detective stories written by William Le Queux, an Anglo-French journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat, a traveller, a flying..

The Great Stone Face

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Great Stone Face, and Other Tales of the White Mountains is a collection of short stories written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. The..

The Broken Cup

Heinrich Zschokke

The Broken Cup is a collection short stories written by Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke,  German, later Swiss, author and reformer. Most of his life was spent, and most of his reputation ear..

Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home

Bayard Taylor

Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home is a collection of short stories written by Bayard Taylor, an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat. The Stories in ..

The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories

Kate Chopin

The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggl..