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.
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1. The Shot
By: Alexander Pushkin , Alexander Poushkin
3.86
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The Shot is a short story written by Alexander Pushkin, one of the most renowned Russian writers of… read more
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2. 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
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. 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?
5. The Colour Out of Space
By: H.P. Lovecraft
4.03
Format: 78 pages, Mass Market Paperback
'It was a monstrous constellation of unnatural light, like a glutted swarm of corpse-fed fireflies … read more
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"It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside laws."-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space
"West of Arkham the hills rise wild and there are valleys with deep woods that no ax has ever cut. There are dark, narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, where thin brooklets trickle withou…"-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space
6. 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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7. 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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10. The Garden Party
By: Katherine Mansfield
3.62
Format: None pages, ebook
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… 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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14. The Standard of Living
By: Dorothy Parker
4.27
Format: 304 pages,
Tells about Anabel and Midge, two little 18-dollars-a-week stenographers who played the game of wha… read more
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15. The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer and Other Fantasms
By: Lord Dunsany
4.00
Format: 592 pages,
The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms is a collection of ghost stories, essays and … read more
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17. 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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18. 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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20. Putois
By: Anatole France
4.12
Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition
Reprint of an 1907 edition. read more
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21. 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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22. 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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23. The Curfew Tolls
By: Stephen Vincent Benét
3.66
Format: None pages, None
A famous short story read more
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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. The Man of the House
By: Frank O'Connor
3.26
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
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27. 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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28. 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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29. Only the Dead Know Brooklyn
By: Thomas Wolfe
3.29
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Short Stories. 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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