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40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition
Beverly Lawn, Joanne Diaz, Nathaniel Hawthorne · back to the book
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Include books by the same authorGreat American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway
Charles W. Chesnutt, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton · 560 pages
[Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [The birthmark](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455204W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [Rappaccini's daughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455378W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/
Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century
Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charles Lamb, O. Henry, Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde · 240 pages
Best Russian Short Stories
Thomas Seltzer · 264 pages
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
Richard Bausch · 1,734 pages
Dubliners
James Joyce · 226 pages
James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else, including two entire stories. Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would 'retard the course of civilisation
My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro
Jeffrey Eugenides · 587 pages
A collection of love story excerpts from classic literary works, culled by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex, includes selections by such writers as Alice Munro, William Faulkner, and Milan Kundera, in a volume published to benefit the McSweeney literacy project 826 Chicago.
The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories
Theodore W. Goossen · 496 pages
The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories
Edited by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka · 316 pages
"Translated by Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial writers and have made Kafka's work accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works - including such tim
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde · 1,216 pages
The Lottery and Other Stories
Shirley Jackson · 304 pages
A haunting and powerful collection of stories from one of America's finest writers, with a new Introduction by Patrick McGrath. Eerie, unforgettable, and by turns terrifying and hilarious, Shirley Jackson's collection of stories plunges us into a unique, brilliantly etched world where the uncanny lurks in the everyday and where nothing is quite what it seems. In "The Lottery," Jackson's most famo
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century
Stephen Greenblatt, James Simpson, Jon Stallworthy, Katharine Eisaman Maus, Jack Stillinger, Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, Lawrence Lipking, Jahan Ramazani, Alfred David, Carol T. Christ, Deidre Shauna Lynch, Catherine Robson, James Noggle, George M. Logan · 2,877 pages
Great Horror Stories
H.G. Wells, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, Walter de la Mare, Daniel Defoe · 638 pages
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume 1
Robert Silverberg · 558 pages
Classic Tales of Horror
Rudyard Kipling, William Edmondstoune Aytoun, E.F. Benson, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, M.R. James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins · 240 pages
Contains: [Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W) [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W) [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) Hop-Frog [Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W) King Pest Lig
The Complete Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen · 286 pages
Sixteen tales including "Little Claus and Big Claus," "Father's Always Right," and "The Goblin and the Grocer."
The Portable Faulkner
William Faulkner · 724 pages
The old people : A justice. Wedding in the rain (from Absalom! Absalom!) [Red leaves](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080908W/Red_Leaves). Was. ; The unvanguished : Raid. [Wash](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16245840W/Wash). An odor of Verbena ; The last wilderness : The bear ; The peasants : Spotted horses (from the hamlet) ; The end of an order : [That evening sun](https://openlibrary
The Red Fairy Book
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang · 330 pages
Twenty-nine fairy tales from the folklore of France, Germany, Scandinavia, and Russia, including The Golden Goose, The Story of Sigurd, and The Twelve Dancing Princesses.
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm · 880 pages
Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy
Douglas A. Anderson · 432 pages
The Short Story
Beverly Lawn, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe · 464 pages