Short Story Books

A Desperate Character and Other Stories

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.The six tales now translated for the English reader..

The Road Builders

Samuel Merwin

The Road Builders by Samuel Merwin is a classic western which tells the story of Paul Carhart and his team of railroad engineers during the 1870s with a difficult job building in Texas...

The Middy and the Moors - An Algerine Story

R. M. Ballantyne

Taking his way to the pebbly shore, young Foster hired a small boat, or punt, from a man who knew him well, declined the owner’s services, pushed off, seized the oars, and rowed swiftly out to sea. It..

Ghost Story Collection Volume 006

Various Authors

A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyond. If just one story prickles the hair on the back of your ..

The Keeper

H. Beam Piper

The Keeper is a science fiction short story by American writer H. Beam Piper. It is the last story in Piper’s Terro-Human Future History series, being set in the 301st Century A.E. It made its first a..

Breaking Point

James E. Gunn

Breaking Point is a science fiction novella written by James E. Gunn, an American science fiction writer, editor, scholar, and anthologist. His work as an editor of anthologies includes the ..

Young America Afloat - A Story of Travel and Adventure

Oliver Optic

Outward Bound is the first volume of "A Library of Travel and Adventure in Foreign Lands," and contains the voyage of the Academy Ship "Young America" across the Atlantic. The origin and progress of t..

The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson,  an American poet, journalist, and political activist. Among the fir..