Short Stories Classics Books

The Gentle Grafter" looks at business from a distinctly shady angle, with its stories about cool-headed, sharp-dressing trickster Jeff Peters.O. Herny was a supreme story teller, drawing his material from the lives of ordinary people - clerks, city dwellers, exiles and drifters.O. Henry was the...

In vain they searched; in vain Marie wailed and Belle declared it must be somewhere; no wreath appeared. It was duly set down in the bill, and a fine sum charged for a head-dress to match the dainty forget-me-nots that looped the fleecy skirts and ornamented the bosom of the dress. It had...

Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad. Joseph's outsider's eye gave him special insights into the moral dangers of the great age of European empires. In his prefactory note to this volume, Conrad wrote, "Of the five stories in this volume, 'The Lagoon,' the last in order, is the earliest in date.

Maupassant's Short Stories Vol. 3 by Guy de Maupassant.

The Best British Short Stories of 1922 edited by E. J. O'Brien and J. Cournos.

It is the air which we breathe that fills our lungs and gives us life and light. It is that which refreshes us if pure, or sinks us into stagnation if it be foul. Let me for awhile inhale the breath of an invigorating literature. Sit down, Mr. Mackinnon; I have a question that I must put to you...

Willa Cather was born in Virginia in 1873 and moved with her family to live in Webster County at the age of nine. After graduating from Red Cloud High School in 1890, she attended the university in Lincoln, Nebraska for five years, then moved to the east coast for the remainder of her life. She...

Stories by English Authors: Germany by Various authors.

Another wonderful literary work by the author of "Call of the Wild" and "White Fang." Includes five short stories entitled: When God Laughs; The Apostate; A Wicked Woman; Just Meat; Created He Them. A fabulous volume for those fans of Jack London.

Operation R.S.V.P. by Henry Beam Piper.