The Curfew Tolls
By: Stephen Vincent Benét
3.66
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 Minister's Black Veil
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.73
Format: 37 pages, Paperback
The sexton stood in the porch of Milford meeting-house, pulling busily at the bell-rope. The old pe… read more
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"The grass of many years has sprung up and withered on that grave, the burial-stone is mossgrown, and good Mr. Hooper’s face is dust; but awful is still the thought that it mouldered beneath the black…"-Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minister's Black Veil
"Mr. Hooper spent a long life, irreproachable in outward act, yet shrouded in dismal suspicions; kind and loving, though unloved, and dimly feared; a man apart from men, shunned in their health and jo…"-Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minister's Black Veil
3. A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
By: Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The stories found in A Haunted Housereflect Virginia Woolf's experimental writing style and act as … read more
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4. 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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5. 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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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
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8. Ivy Day in the Committee Room
By: James Joyce
3.00
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
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11. The Man Who Could Work Miracles
By: H.G. Wells
4.11
Format: 192 pages,
"The subsequent meditations of Mr. Fotheringay were of a severe but confused description. So far, h… read more
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12. 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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15. The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
By: Agatha Christie
3.82
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She… read more
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"Here was a man who would never rail against fate but accept it and pass on to victory"-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
"Because when you’re in love, you think you’re invincible. It blinds you. And you don’t seem to care."-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
"What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean."-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
"Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a…"-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
16. 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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17. The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
By: William Saroyan
4.00
Format: None pages,
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse is a short story by William Saroyan, published within the c… read more
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18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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21. 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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22. The Curfew Tolls
By: Stephen Vincent Benét
3.66
Format: None pages, None
A famous short story read more
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23. Father wakes up the village
By: Clarence Day Jr.
3.10
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
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24. The Gioconda Smile
By: Aldous Huxley
3.17
Format: 44 pages, Paperback
Short story, originally published in the 1922 collection Mortal Coils. "Miss Spence will be down… read more
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25. The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles
By: Edmund Wilson
3.63
Format: None pages, None
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26. Main Currents of American Thought
By: Irwin Shaw
3.27
Format: None pages, None
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27. The Man of the House
By: Frank O'Connor
3.26
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
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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. The Golden Honeymoon
By: Ring Lardner
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Golden Honeymoon is a collection of short stories written by Ring W. Lardner. The book features… read more
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31. Theft
By: Katherine Anne Porter
2.77
Format: 7 pages, None
A day in the life of an unnamed urban woman. read more
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