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A Batch of Letters
In Mostly Boys: Short Stories
A collection of tales about real life boys in every walk of life. They are redolent of the breezy spirit of healthy, jovial boyhood, and per…
07 - Chapter VII The Letter
In The Descent of Man and Other Stories
This collection of ten stories, first published in 1904, shows Edith Wharton dissecting some of the customs, habits and vagaries of courtshi…
Some Materials and a Possibility
In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 085
"A regard for decency, even at the cost of success, is but the regard for one's own dignity" was novelist Joseph Conrad's take on …
Two Letters, a Telegram, and a Finale By H. S. Haskins
In Short Stories From Life
Life Magazine held a short story contest. Stories must be no more than 1500 words. Authors were paid for the number of words under that maxi…
A Warning Bell
In Dreamland and Ghostland
This collection of accounts and short stories of a ghostly nature was originally published in 3 volumes. The subtitle of this compilation ni…
Pause
In The Garden of Dreams
Madison Cawein from Kentucky, displays a wider range of his poetic dreams, from the bright to the dark. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Her Letters
In Short Mystery Story Collection 001
Delve into the intriguing world of mystery with this collection of ten short stories, expertly curated to showcase the art of suspense and d…
How The Alphabet Was Made
In Children's Short Works, Vol. 033
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 033: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Decision
In Short Science Fiction Collection 057
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
Not in the Script
In Short Science Fiction Collection 083
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
The Readers' Corner, Part C
In Astounding Stories 15, March 1931
This issue includes "When the Mountain Came to Miramar" by Charles W. Diffin, "Beyond the Vanishing Point" by Ray Cummin…
Reader's Corner Part 1
In Astounding Stories 18, June 1931
This issue containsThe Man from 2072 by Sewell Peaslee Wright ~ Out of the Flow of Time there appears to Commander John Hanson a Man of Myst…
Letters from Town to Country
In The Rover Vol. 01 No. 25
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
How the Alphabet was Made
In Just So Stories
The Just So Stories for Little Children, first published in 1902, were written by British author Rudyard Kipling. They are a collection of f…
Mr. Twistleton's Typewriter
In Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 3
In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious s…
Our Post-Office Box
In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 05, Dec. 2,1879
Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, sho…
Appendix Four Autograph Letters Communicating Personal Experiences Addressed To The Author
In Ghosts And Family Legends; A Volume For Christmas
Fifteen ghost stories to hear around the Yule log. "It happened that I spent the last winter in a large country mansion, in the north o…
Ascription by Charles G.D. Roberts
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 1)
The fourth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, incl…
The Purloined Letter
In The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 2 (version 2)
An eclectic, catholic even, collection from the exquisitely excellent tale-telling of Mr. Edgar Allan Poe. Hilarious and terrifying. Need…