Short Story Books

A Sportsman's Sketches, Volume 2

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

A Sportsman's Sketches was an 1852 collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev. It was the first major writing that gained him recognition. He wrote this collection of short stories based on his own ..

Children's Stories in American History

Henrietta Christian Wright

Children's Stories in American History is a collection stories on history for young readers written by Henrietta Christian Wright, an American children's author who resided in East Brunswick Township,..

The Mistletoe Bough

Anthony Trollope

The Mistletoe Bough is a Christmas short story which deals with courtship written by Anthony Trollope, an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collec..

A Holiday Romance

Charles Dickens

A Holiday Romance is a collection of four short interconnected stories written from the point of view of four children. The children are on holiday and are living out their fantasies, which come from ..

Lizzie Leigh

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Lizzie Leigh and The Heart of John Middleton are examples of Gaskell's writing on the working classes of the industrial north of England, while the Well of Pen Morfa is set in rural North Wales. ..

Fifty Famous People - A Book of Short Stories

James Baldwin

One of the best things to be said of the stories in this volume is that, although they are not biographical, they are about real persons who actually lived and performed their parts in the great drama..

The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories

Anton Tchekoff

The House With The Mezzanine And Other Stories is a collection of seven short stories written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, a Russian playwright and short-story writer, who is considered to be among the..

A Slave is a Slave

H. Beam Piper

A Slave is a Slave is a science fiction story written by Henry Beam Piper, an American science fiction author. He wrote many short stories and several novels.The Galactic Empire is slowly 'welcom..