Borrowing a Match
By: Stephen Leacock
3.33
Format: None pages, None
A simple request from a stranger is no "match" for what happens next.
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1. Answer
By: Fredric Brown
3.77
Format: None pages, ebook
"Dwan Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television came… read more
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2. 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
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. An Uncomfortable Bed
By: Guy de Maupassant
4.25
Format: None pages, ebook
A man is certain his friends are about to play a practical joke on him ... read more
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6. The Shirt Collar
By: Hans Christian Andersen
4.48
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
There was once a perfect gentleman whose whole household goods consisted of one bootjack and a comb… read more
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7. The Eyes Have It
By: Philip K. Dick
4.05
Format: 336 pages, ebook
It was quite by accident I discovered this incredible invasion of Earth by lifeforms from another p… read more
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8. After Twenty Years
By: O. Henry
3.96
Format: 20 pages, None
The skill of the legendary master of the twist ending in short stories is perhaps nowhere better ex… read more
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11. Girl
By: Jamaica Kincaid
3.97
Format: 480 pages,
Girlwas originally published in the June 26, 1978 issue of The New Yorkerand subsequently included … read more
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12. The Gift of the Magi
By: O. Henry , Lisbeth Zwerger
4.11
Format: 26 pages, Hardcover
O. Henry's classic tale of the wisest gifts of Christmas is itself a gift to share and treasure. … read more
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"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl."-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with snif…"-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
"Единственное, что тут можно было сделать, это хлопнуться на старенькую кушетку и зареветь. Именно так Делла и поступила. Откуда напрашивается философский вывод, что жизнь состоит из слез, вздохов и у…"-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
13. Annie's Day
By: Andy Weir
4.57
Format: 140 pages, ebook
I didn't want to wake up at 6am, especially on a Saturday. But the man I was cuddled up to was... a… read more
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"Anders burst our laughing. He covered his mouth with both hands and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," then snorted helplessly through his fingers and said, " Capiche - oh, God, capiche," and at that..."-Tobias Wolff, Bullet in the Brain
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16. 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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17. Girls, at Play
By: Celeste Ng
3.85
Format: None pages, None
"Girls, at Play" is a short story about childhood, sexuality, and class, originally published in th… read more
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18. The Doer of Good
By: Oscar Wilde
3.84
Format: 5 pages, None
"The Doer of Good" is an Oscar Wilde prose-poem about four people whose hedonistic behavior has co… read more
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19. One Of These Days
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.34
Format: 4 pages, ebook
او در سال ۱۹۴۱ اولين نوشتههايش را در روزنامهای به نام Juventude که مخصوص شاگردان دبيرستانی بود من… read more
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21. A Strange Story
By: O. Henry
2.94
Format: None pages, None
A Strange Story (in Short Story Collection Vol. 047 ) In the northern part of Austin there once dw… read more
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22. Clovis on Parental Responsibilities
By: Saki
3.33
Format: 3 pages, Paperback
A short story by Saki read more
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23. Borrowing a Match
By: Stephen Leacock
3.33
Format: None pages, None
A simple request from a stranger is no "match" for what happens next. read more
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24. A Lost Masterpiece
By: A.A. Milne
3.09
Format: None pages, Audiobook
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25. Bruce and the Spider
By: James Baldwin
2.38
Format: None pages, None
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26. The Patient Cat
By: Laura Elizabeth Richards
3.47
Format: None pages, None
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27. Wit Inspirations of the "Two-year-olds"
By: Mark Twain
3.12
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Wit Inspirations of the "Two-year-olds" is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. Samuel Langhorne… read more
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28. Maine to the Rescue
By: Laura Elizabeth Richards
3.15
Format: None pages, None
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29. A Story from Confucius (1908)
By: Confucius
3.88
Format: None pages, ebook
A Story from Confucius is a lesson in self-control, published in Chinese Fables and Folk Stories (1… read more
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31. The Ass and His Purchaser
By: Aesop
3.45
Format: 1 pages, None
A morality tale about the company you keep. read more
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