Short Story Books

Canadian Wonder Tales

Cyrus Macmillan

This is a collection of folk tales originating in Canada, some from aboriginal oral tradition and others due to early French, Scottish, Irish and British colonists. They are presented as "fables" thou..

Meister Zacharius

Jules Verne

Meister Zacharius is the German version of Jules Verne's story A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories.Meister Zacharius ist ein Uhrmacher in Genf und berühmt für die Genauigkeit seiner..

In the Penal Colony

Franz Kafka

The story is set in an unnamed penal colony. Internal clues and the setting on an island suggest Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden as an influence. As in some of Kafka's other writings, the narrator..

The Under Dog

Francis Hopkinson Smith

The Under Dog is a collection of short stories written by Francis Hopkinson Smith.No Respecter of Persons  I. The Crime of Samanthy North  II. Bud Tilden, Mail-Thief  III. "Eleven ..

A London Life, and Other Tales

Henry James

A devoted sister attempts to check her sibling's scandalous behavior in the world of British high society. A delightful comedy of Anglo-American manners and a fascinating glimpse of late Victorian Lon..

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

A kindly thing it is to have compassion of the afflicted and albeit it well beseemeth every one, yet of those is it more particularly required who have erst had need of comfort and have found it in an..

The Great Stone Face, and Other Tales of the White Mountains

Nathaniel Hawthorne

THE first three numbers in this collection are tales of the White Hills in New Hampshire. The passages from Sketches from Memory show that Hawthorne had visited the mountains in one of his occasional ..

On Picket Duty, and Other Tales

Louisa May Alcott

Thorn was a Massachusetts volunteer; a man who seemed too early old, too early embittered by some cross, for though grim of countenance, rough of speech, cold of manner, a keen observer would have soo..