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Best Russian Short Stories

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Great 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/

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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

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40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition

Beverly Lawn, Joanne Diaz, Nathaniel Hawthorne · 470 pages

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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

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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

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The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction

Richard Bausch · 1,734 pages

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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

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Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde · 1,216 pages

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The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories

Edited by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

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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.

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Decamerone

Giovanni Boccaccio · 574 pages

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The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories

Theodore W. Goossen · 496 pages

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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

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Nine Stories

J.D. Salinger · 208 pages

First published short story volume by the author of Catcher In The Rye.

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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."

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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

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Italian Folktales

Italo Calvino · 763 pages

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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm · 880 pages

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Great Horror Stories

H.G. Wells, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, Walter de la Mare, Daniel Defoe · 638 pages

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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume 1

Robert Silverberg · 558 pages

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Tales from 1,001 Nights

Anonymous · 496 pages

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Selected Stories

Anton Chekhov · 467 pages

Called the greatest of short story writers, Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition.

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

William L. Hedges · 358 pages

Originally entitled, "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.", this collection of essays, sketches, and tales established Washington's reputation as America's foremost professional author. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" are classics of American fiction and display Irving's ability to depict American landscapes and culture. This volume also contains a number of gently ironic

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Grimms' Fairy Tales and Andersen's Fairy Tales

Hans Christian Andersen, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

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