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American Indian Fairy Tales
With no written language, Native Americans living in the Lake Superior region passed their cultural identity down through the generations by…
Mark Twain's Journal Writings
This second collection of essays by Mark Twain is a good example of the diversity of subject matter about which he wrote. As with the essays…
Told after Supper
It is Christmas Eve, and the narrator, his uncle and sundry other local characters are sitting round the fire drinking copious quantities of…
The Ruby and the Caldron
A valuable ruby is lost during a disturbance in the snow before a ball at The Evergreens. A detective is called for right away to recover it…
Tales of Men and Ghosts
Tales of Men and Ghosts was published as a collection in 1910, though the first eight of the stories had earlier appeared in Scribner's and …
Short Science Fiction Collection
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…
The Arabian Nights Entertainments
The main frame story concerns a king and his new bride. The king, Shahryar, upon discovering his ex-wife's infidelity executes her and then …
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow invites listeners into a haunting tale set in the eerie, quiet village of Sleepy Hollow, where the legend of the…
The Tales of Chekhov
This is the first of thirteen volumes of Anton Chekhov's short stories, translated by Constance Garnett.Anton Chekhov was a Russian doctor w…
A Wodehouse Miscellany
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Best known toda…
Short Ghost and Horror Collection
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …
Sevastopol
Sevastopol Sketches (Russian: Севастопольские рассказы, Sevastopolskiye rasskazy) are three short stories written by Leo Tolstoy and publish…
Hagar of the Pawn-Shop
Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly Lo…
The Best American Humorous Short Stories
The Best American Humorous Short Stories is a delightful collection that brings together eighteen short stories from a diverse array of auth…
Plain Tales from the Hills
Plain Tales from the Hills is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling, set against the backdrop of British India during the height …
Heart of the West
Heart of the West is a captivating collection of short stories that showcases the wit and charm of O. Henry, one of America's most beloved s…
Short Ghost and Horror Collection
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …
The Confessions of Arsene Lupin
Step into the world of Arsène Lupin, the charming gentleman thief whose escapades blur the line between crime and adventure. In this …
Twenty Two Goblins
These 22 stories are told by the Goblin to the King Vikram. King Vikram faces many difficulties in bringing the vetala to the tantric. Each …
Short Humor Collection
Step into the whimsical world of P. G. Wodehouse with this delightful collection of short humorous stories. Known for his sharp wit and clev…