Short Story Books

A Desperate Character and Other Stories

Ivan S Turgenev

A Desperate Character and Other Stories is a short stories collection set in the background of Russian social life and customs written by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, who was a Russian novelist, short s..

The English at the North Pole

Jules Verne

The novel, set in 1861, describes adventures of British expedition led by Captain John Hatteras to the North Pole. Hatteras is convinced that the sea around the pole is not frozen and his obsession is..

The Escape of Mr. Trimm

Irvin S. Cobb

The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights is a short story crime fiction stories written by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky,..

Una Of The Hill Country

Mary Noailles Murfree

Una Of The Hill Country is a short story written by Mary Noailles Murfree, an American fiction writer of novels and short stories who wrote under the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock...

The Gray Madam

Anna Katharine Green

The Gray Madam is a short mystery story written by Anna Katharine Green, an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself ..

Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories

Sherwood Anderson

The Triumph of the Egg is a collection of stories and poems by Sherwood Anderson. Abandoning the interconnected quality of his more famous “Winesburg, Ohio,” the author adopts a variety of perspective..

The Poisoned Pen

Arthur B. Reeve

The Poisoned Pen is a short mystery stories collection written by Arthur Benjamin Reeve,  an American mystery writer. He is best known for creating the series character Professor Craig Kennedy, s..

The Tapestried Chamber, and Death of the Laird's Jock

Walter Scott

The Tapestried Chamber, and Death of the Laird's Jock is a ghost story collection of just 2 stories written by Walter Scott, a Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his..