The Stone Boy
By: Gina Berriault
3.97
Format: None pages, None
Tells the story of nine-year-old Arnold who accidentally and fatally shoots his older brother. When…
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1. The Five-Forty-Eight
By: Meryl Streep , John Cheever , Ben Cheever , None
3.70
Format: 164 pages, Audio
Here are twelve magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates -- with unequaled grace and te… read more
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- short stories
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2. Araby
By: James Joyce
3.65
Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition
A short story from James Joyce's Dubliners. The unnamed protagonist in "Araby" is a boy who is just… read more
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"My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires."-James Joyce, Araby
"What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I chafed against the work of school. At night in my bedroo…"-James Joyce, Araby
3. A Clean Well Lighted Place
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.72
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway, first published… read more
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- short stories
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4. The Story of an Hour
By: Kate Chopin
4.07
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more
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"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
5. How Much Land Does a Man Need?
By: Leo Tolstoy , Boris Dralyuk
4.11
Format: 66 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of a greedy peasant named Pakhom. Although Pakhom enjoys health and family happiness, he … read more
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"I understood that men only think that they live by caring only about themselves: in reality they live by love alone."-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
"Next morning, when Semyon woke up, the children were still asleep and his wife had gone over to the neighbour's to borrow some bread. Only the stranger was sitting on the bench, wearing the old trous…"-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
"An elder sister came from the town to visit her younger sister in the country. This elder sister was married to a merchant and the younger to a peasant in the village. The two sisters sat down for a …"-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
6. The Lottery
By: Shirley Jackson
4.05
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more
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"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
7. Miss Brill
By: Katherine Mansfield , Ursula Grawe
3.63
Format: 224 pages,
The story is about Miss Brill, a middle-aged English teacher in an unnamed French vacation town. It… read more
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- fiction
8. A Hunger Artist
By: Franz Kafka , Kevin Blahut , None , Helen Vlcnovska
3.74
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The last book published during Kafka's lifetime, A Hunger Artist(1924) explores many of the themes … read more
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- fiction
9. Interpreter of Maladies
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.17
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here Navigating between the Indian tra… read more
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"Sexy means loving someone you do not know."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"You got cats at home?" "No cats. Only a husband."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
10. Desiree's Baby
By: Kate Chopin , None
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Audiobook
Kate Chopin was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly with a Louisiana Creole back… read more
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11. Happy Endings
By: Margaret Atwood
4.12
Format: 440 pages, ebook
Atwood's short story includes six different stories, labeled A to F, which each quickly summarize t… read more
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12. I Stand Here Ironing
By: Tillie Olsen
3.75
Format: 40 pages,
Published in Tillie Olsen's short story collection "Tell Me a Riddle" in 1961. read more
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13. The Veldt
By: Ray Bradbury , Gary Kelley
5.00
Format: 32 pages,
The advanced technology of a house first pleases then increasingly terrifies its occupants. read more
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14. First Confession
By: Frank O'Connor
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Do your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a … read more
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15. The Cask of Amontillado
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.08
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque ..") is a short story written by Edgar All… read more
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"For the love of God, Montresor!"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
16. Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories
By: Henry James , Shirley Jackson , Joyce Carol Oates , Ambrose Bierce , Margaret Atwood , Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Langston Hughes , James Baldwin , Katherine Mansfield , Raymond Carver , John Cheever , Alice Munro , Frank O'Connor , Tillie Olsen , Amy Tan , John Updike , Alice Walker , Eudora Welty , T. Coraghessan Boyle , Ann Petry , Louise Erdrich , Truman Capote , Shirley Ann Grau , V.S. Naipaul , Irwin Shaw , Dorothy Parker , Rosellen Brown , Grace Paley , Ralph Ellison , John O'Hara , Lorrie Moore , Jayne Anne Phillips , Sarah Orne Jewett , Toni Cade Bambara , Danny Santiago , Francisco Jiménez , David Wong Louie , James Moffett , Kenneth R. McElheny , Merle Hodge , Gina Berriault , Toshio Mori , None , None , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since its original publication in 1966, this volume has attained classic status. Now its contents h… read more
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17. The Necklace
By: Guy de Maupassant , Gary Kelley
3.35
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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18. Dead Men's Path
By: Chinua Achebe
3.58
Format: 4 pages, None
Dead Men's Path is a short story by the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, first published in 1953. The… read more
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19. Hills Like White Elephants
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.85
Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition
A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems. Hi… read more
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20. The Stone Boy
By: Gina Berriault
3.97
Format: None pages, None
Tells the story of nine-year-old Arnold who accidentally and fatally shoots his older brother. When… read more
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21. My Side of the Matter
By: Truman Capote
3.62
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
One of the great masters of lyrical melancholy, Truman Capote remains admired for both his fiction … read more
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