Published 1900 onward

Senator North

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Gertrude Atherton


"When, Mr. President, a man, however eminent in other pursuits and whatever claims he may have to public confidence, becomes a member o…

Green Valley

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Katharine Yirsa Reynolds


"Traveling men have a poor opinion of it. Ministers of the gospel have been known to despair of it. Socially ambitious matrons move out…

The Lost Valley

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Algernon Blackwood


A set of twin brothers have spent every waking moment of their lives together and are terrified of separating. However, when both men set th…

The Outcry

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Henry James


The story concerns the contemplated sale of a famous painting by a proud but relatively cash-strapped British aristocrat to a wealthy Americ…

A Change of Air

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Katharine Fullerton Gerould


Anyone can make a will by which his possessions are divided after his death but Cordelia Wheaton was ahead of the game for she willed away h…

The Race Of The Swift

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Edwin Carlile Litsey


This 1905 collection is of the author’s short animal stories, some previously published in magazines. - Summary by David Wales

Short Stories From Life

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Various


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…

An Iceland Fisherman

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Pierre Loti


'An Iceland Fisherman' is an 1886 romance by the celebrated - he was elected to the French Academy in May, 1891 - novelist and naval officer…

Windy McPherson's Son

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Sherwood Anderson


Windy McPherson's Son is the story of Sam McPherson's rise in the world of business and search for emotional enlightenment in later life. Mc…

The Rising of the Tide

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Ida M. Tarbell


The subtitle is "the story of Sabinsport", and the town is the major character. It is a small, Midwestern town in the USA, in 1914…

The Incubator Baby

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Ellis Parker Butler


Marjorie Fielding is born premature and spends her first months of life in an incubator. Her mother is a modern, broad-minded woman eschewin…

The Storm Of London

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Fernande Blaze De Bury


Our clothes tell our story. They reflect our rank, have to suit a perfect event, and much more. But what happens when they disappear? Sounds…

Captures

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John Galsworthy


Brief plot lines of these 16 stories by Nobel Prize winning author John Galsworthy: 01, 02, 03 "A Feud" The breaking of an engagem…

Poor White: a Novel

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Sherwood Anderson


This is a story of the effect of industrialization on a small town and its people, around the beginning of the 20th Century. The lead charac…

The Re-creation of Brian Kent

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Harold Bell Wright


Brian Kent is a bank clerk who is driven by a variety of circumstances to commit a series of thefts from his employer. Remorseful, drunk, s…

A Cathedral Singer

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James Lane Allen


New York City in the early 20th century, a boy with an angelic voice, his devoted mother, the great Episcopal Cathedral of Saint John The Di…

A Study in Shadows

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William John Locke


Among the mixture of people spending the summer in a pension (boarding house) in Geneva are Felicia, a 20-year-old, and Katherine (30) who b…

שבעה סיפורים Seven Stories

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יוסף חיים ברנר Yosef Haim Brenner


Bucking the Tiger

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Achmed Abdullah


A group of down-and-outers decide on the ultimate gamble: they will bankroll one of themselves, chosen by lot, to live well for a year. Then…

If You Touch Them They Vanish

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Gouverneur Morris


"No man who has not endured solitude in long doses knows how vivid, real, and necessary people and things of the imagination may become…

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