Short Stories

Under the Willow-Tree by Hans Christian Andersen THE region round the little town of Kjøge is very bleak and cold. The town lies on the sea shore, which is always beautiful; but here it might be more beautiful than it ...

The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing ...

The Blind Man by Kate Chopin A man carrying a small red box in one hand walked slowly down the street. His old straw hat and faded garments looked as if the rain had often beaten upon them, and the ...

Christian Science and the book of Mrs. Eddy by Mark Twain ‘It is the first time since the dawn-days of Creation that a Voice has gone crashing through space with such placid and complacent confidence and command.’ I This last ...

The Cook of the “Gannet” by W. W. Jacobs All ready for sea, and no cook,” said the mate of the schooner Gannet, gloomily. “What’s become of all the cooks I can’t think.” “They most on ’em ship as mates ...

The Princess by Jack London A FIRE burned cheerfully in the jungle camp, and beside the fire lolled a cheerful-seeming though horrible-appearing man. This was a hobo jungle, pitched in a thin strip of woods that lay between a railroad ...

The Music on the Hill by H.H. Munro (SAKI) Sylvia Seltoun ate her breakfast in the morning-room at Yessney with a pleasant sense of ultimate victory, such as a fervent Ironside might have permitted himself on the morrow of Worcester ...

Staley Fleming’s Hallucination by Ambrose Bierce Of two men who were talking one was a physician. ‘I sent for you, Doctor,’ said the other, ‘but I don’t think you can do me any good. Maybe you can recommend a specialist ...

Cupid A La Carte by O. Henry “The dispositions of woman,” said Jeff Peters, after various opinions on the subject had been advanced, “run, regular, to diversions. What a woman wants is what you’re out of. She wants more of ...

The Legion of Honor by Guy de Maupassant From the time some people begin to talk they seem to have an overmastering desire or vocation. Ever since he was a child, M. Caillard had only had one idea in his ...

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  The Little Cask by Guy de Maupassant   He was a tall man of forty or thereabout, this Jules Chicot, the innkeeper of Spreville, with a red face and a round stomach, and said by those who knew him ...

The Two Friends Of Syracuse by Charlotte M. Yonge B.C. 380 (CIRCA) Most of the best and noblest of the Greeks held what was called the Pythagorean philosophy. This was one of the many systems framed by the great men ...

The Stories Of Alcestis And Antigone by Charlotte M. Yonge   It has been said, that even the heathens saw and knew the glory of self- devotion; and the Greeks had two early instances so very beautiful that, though they ...

The Soldiers In The Snow by Charlotte M. Yonge 1672 Few generals had ever been more loved by their soldiers than the great Viscount de Turenne, who was Marshal of France in the time of Louis XIV. Troops are always ...

The Shepherd Girl Of Nanterre by Charlotte M. Yonge A.D. 438 Four hundred years of the Roman dominion had entirely tamed the once wild and independent Gauls. Everywhere, except in the moorlands of Brittany, they had become as much like ...

  Two Old Men by Leo Tolstoy Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. ‘The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the ...

Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy   It once occurred to a certain king, that if he always knew the right time to begin everything; if he knew who were the right people to listen to, and whom to avoid; and, ...

Three Parables by Leo Tolstoy   PARABLE THE FIRST A WEED had spread over a beautiful meadow. And in order to get rid of it the tenants of the meadow mowed it, but the weed only increased in consequence. And ...

Three Deaths by Leo Tolstoy   It was Autumn. A carriage and a calesche were proceeding at a sharp trot along the high-road. In the carriage sat two women. One of them was the mistress, thin and pale. The other ...