The Schwartz-Metterklume Method
By: Saki
3.80
Format: None pages, None
A famous short story
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1. That Evening Sun
By: William Faulkner
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Quentin Compson narrates the story of his family’s African-American washerwoman, Nancy, who fears t… read more
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2. The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery (Father Brown)
By: G.K. Chesterton , James Arthur
3.66
Format: 2 pages, Audio Cassette
This Father Brown mystery is one of twelve from the first collection of short stories about the dim… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
"The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic."-G.K. Chesterton, The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery (Father Brown)
3. The Masque of the Red Death
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.06
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more
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"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
4. The Signalman
By: Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn
3.66
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Presents the tale of a young man who, after listening to an eccentric railroad signalman's predicti… read more
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"Hallow! Below there!"-Charles Dickens, The Signalman
5. Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)
By: Agatha Christie
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
Among the towering red cliffs of Petra sits the corpse of Mrs Boynton, a tiny puncture mark on her … read more
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- fiction
6. The Catbird Seat
By: James Thurber
3.26
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Short story first published in The New Yorker, Nov. 14, 1942. Mr. Martin, a man of exemplary habits… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- comedy
7. Into The Sun
By: Robert Duncan Milne
4.18
Format: 407 pages, Audiobook
An imaginative and influential short story from an early contributor to the science fiction genre A… read more
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8. 50 Great Short Stories
By: Ernest Hemingway , Anton Chekhov , Robert Louis Stevenson , Guy de Maupassant , O. Henry , James Thurber , Henry James , H.G. Wells , Shirley Jackson , Virginia Woolf , Nathaniel Hawthorne , John Steinbeck , Rudyard Kipling , E.M. Forster , Robert M. Coates , William Faulkner , James Joyce , Katherine Mansfield , W. Somerset Maugham , Flannery O'Connor , Frank O'Connor , Edgar Allan Poe , Katherine Anne Porter , Edith Wharton , E.B. White , Carson McCullers , Joseph Conrad , Thomas Wolfe , Lord Dunsany , Saki , Alexander Pushkin , Anatole France , Sylvia Townsend Warner , Aldous Huxley , V.S. Pritchett , Irwin Shaw , Dorothy Parker , William Saroyan , Ring Lardner , Arthur Schnitzler , H.L. Mencken , John O'Hara , Wilbur Daniel Steele , Max Beerbohm , John Collier , Milton Crane , Clarence Day Jr. , Stephen Vincent Benét , Edmund Wilson , Francis Steegmuller , George Milburn
3.93
Format: None pages,
50 Great Short Storiesis a comprehensive selection from the world's finest short fiction. The autho… read more
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10. A Dream Within a Dream
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.89
Format: 197 pages,
A Dream Within a Dreamis a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The poem quest… read more
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12. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
By: Mark Twain
4.75
Format: 140 pages, Hardcover
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is a wild yarn involving a case of mistaken identi… read more
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13. The Fall of the House of Usher
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.87
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more
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"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
14. A Good Man Is Hard To Find
By: Flannery O'Connor , Frederick Asals
3.96
Format: 433 pages, Paperback
A Good Man Is Hard to Findis Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor her… read more
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17. The Squaw
By: Bram Stoker
4.40
Format: 80 pages,
"The Squaw" was first published in book form in 1914 in Stoker's third collection of short stories … read more
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18. The Call of Cthulhu
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more
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19. The Schartz-Metterklume Method
By: Saki
3.80
Format: 144 pages,
At a railway station, an arrogant and overbearing woman (Mrs. Quabarl) mistakes the mischievous Lad… read more
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20. Outer Dark
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
A woman bears her brother's child, a boy, the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he… read more
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21. Mr. Standfast
By: John Buchan
3.87
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
In this nail-biting adventure story, Hannay must outwit a foe far more intelligent than himself; mu… read more
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"You find hate more among journalists and politicians at home than among fighting men."-John Buchan, Mr. Standfast
"He had just the same narrow head, and stubborn mouth, and honest, quick-tempered eyes. It is the type that makes dashing regimental officers, and earns V.C.’s, and gets done in wholesale. I was never…"-John Buchan, Mr. Standfast
"A man’s courage is like a horse that refuses a fence; you have got to take him by the head and cram him at it again. If you don’t, he will funk worse next time. I hadn’t enough courage to be able to …"-John Buchan, Mr. Standfast
"What’s dooty, if you won’t carry it to the other side of Hell? What’s the use of yapping about your country if you’re going to keep something back when she calls for it? What’s the good of meaning to…"-John Buchan, Mr. Standfast
22. An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (Elderly Lady #1)
By: Helene Tursten
3.76
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781641290111 Content: - An elderly lady has accommodation prob… read more
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"Maud placed two small cartons of rollmops in the basket of her wheeled walker, followed by a larger pack of herring salad. They were soon joined by a Stilton cheese in a blue porcelain pot, a mature …"-Helene Tursten, An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (Elderly Lady #1)
23. Mrs. Amworth
By: E.F. Benson
3.56
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
MRS AMWORTH is the third volume in the Ash-Tree Press series collecting all of E. F. Benson's known… read more
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24. The Door
By: E.B. White
3.38
Format: 6 pages, None
Everything (he kept saying) is something it isn't. And everybody is always somewhere else. read more
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25. The Death of a Bachelor
By: Arthur Schnitzler
3.49
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
The story speaks of the betrayal of wives to their husbands. A rich and sick bachelor wrote a lette… read more
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26. The Apostate
By: George Milburn
2.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
“The Apostate” is a short story written by George Milburn in 1937, published in The New Yorker (Jun… read more
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27. How Beautiful With Shoes
By: Wilbur Daniel Steele
3.95
Format: None pages, Print Magazine
A simple farm girl is abducted by an escapee from the mental institution and has her life changed f… read more
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28. The Foreigner
By: Francis Steegmuller
2.59
Format: 6 pages, Paperback
A foreign student in France gets into trouble with a headstrong taxi driver and winds up in the pol… read more
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29. Looking Back
By: Guy de Maupassant
3.52
Format: None pages, None
In this short story, a country priest explains his vocation to an old friend. read more
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30. "Boil Some Water - Lots of It"
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.30
Format: 9 pages, Kindle Edition
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of nov… read more
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