Short Stories Classics Books

The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov.

Drifting North; Seigerman's Per Cent; Bad Medicine; A Winter Round-up; A College Vagabond; The Double Trail; Rangering; At Comanche Ford; Around the Spade Wagon; The Ransom of Don Ramon Mora; The Passing of Peg-Leg; In the Hands of His Friends; A Question of Possession; and The Story of a Poker...

These short stories constitute some of the best in the English language. They have quite a range in tone, from the extreamely humorous Unrest Cure to the mystery of Sredni Vashtar. Only The Easter Egg diappoints. Written in an Edwardian prose that never disappoints, read it like it was one of...

But our present story will have more to do with his daughter than with him. A pretty girl, I have said, was Patience Woolsworthy; and one, too, in many ways remarkable. She had taken her outlook into life, weighing the things which she had and those which she had not, in a manner very unusual...

The Man on the Beach Two Saints of the Foot-Hills "Jinny" Roger Catron's Friend "Who Was My Quiet Friend?" A Ghost of the Sierras The Hoodlum Band The Man Whose Yoke Was Not Easy My Friend, the Tramp The Man from Solano The Office Seeker A Sleeping-Car Experience Morning on the Avenue With the...

Stories by English Authors in Africa contains short stories by various authors.

These short stories portray rustic American life during the late 1800's.

After the form was locked up, Wan Lee took advantage of Webster's absence to remove the quotation, and substitute a thin piece of lead, of the same size as the type, engraved with Chinese characters, making a sentence, which, I had reason to believe, was an utter and abject confession of the...

From the first moment of their conversation a horrible misgiving had come over me. It seemed more than confirmed as I gazed at what lay before me. It was a little square box made of some dark wood, and ribbed with brass. I suppose it was about the size of a cubic foot. It reminded me of a...

Buttered Side Down, Stories by Edna Ferber. Author of "Dawn O'Hara."