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The two brothers (Anpu and Bata) / Anonymous --
Setna and the magic book / Anonymous --
Eumæus' : talk / Homer --
The country mouse and the town mouse / Æsop --
King Rhampsinitus and the thief / Herodotus --
Phineus and the harpies / Apollonius of Rhodes --
The robbers of Egypt / Heliodorus --
Horatius at the bridge / Livy --
Orpheus and the Eurydice / Ovid --
The shipwreck of Simonides / Phædrus --
The matron of Ephesus / Petronius --
The haunted house / Pliny the Younger --
The dream / Apuleius --
The book of Ruth (Old Testament) --
The history of Susanna (The Apocrypha) --
The prodigal son (New Testament) --
The raising of Lazarus (New Testament) --
Rabbi Akiva (The Talmud) --
The Jewish mother (The Talmud) --
The ass in the lion's skin (Jataka) --
The dove and the crow (Panchatantra) --
The story of Devadatta / Somadeva --
The jackal (Hitopadesa) --
Jamshid and Zuhak / Firdawsi --
The sailor and the pearl merchant / Anonymous --
Khaled and Djaida / Al-Asmal --
Abou Hassan the wag (Thousand and one nights) --
Grendel's raid (Beowulf) --
Esyllt and Sabrina / Geoffrey of Monmouth --
The humbling of Jovinian (Gesta Romanorum) --
Lludd and Llevelys (The Mabinogion) --
Launcelot's tourney / Sir Thomas Malory --
Roberto's tale / Robert Greene --
True relation of the apparition of one Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe --
The story of an heir / Joseph Addison --
The disabled soldier / Oliver Goldsmith --
The bridal of Janet Dalrymple / Sir Walter Scott --
The white trout / Samuel Lover --
The queer client / Charles Dickens --
A terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins --
Squire Petrick's lady / Thomas Hardy --
Thrawn Janet / Robert Louis Stevenson --
The selfish giant / Oscar Wilde --
Julia Cahill's curse / George Moore --
That brute Simmons / Arthur Morrison.
The lay of Hildebrand / Anonymous --
Siegfried and Kriemhild (The lay of the Nibelungs) --
The coming of Gandin / Gottfried von Strassburg --
Bruin the bear & Reynard the fox (Reynard the fox) --
Eulenspiegel and the merchant (Eulenspiegel) --
Doctor Faust and the usurer (The history of Dr. J. Faust) --
The sick wife / Christian Gellert --
Little Briar-Rose / The brothers Grimm --
The story of Serapion / E.T.A. Hoffmann --
The legend of the dance / Gottfried Keller --
The fury / Paul Heyse --
The triple warning / Arthur Schnitzler --
A New-Year's Eve confession / Hermann Sudermann --
The divided horsecloth / Bernier --
The priest and the mulberries / Anonymous --
The lay of the two lovers / Marie de France --
The pious lady and the gray friar / Marguerite de Navarre --
He who married a dumb wife ; The roast-meat seller / François Rabelais --
Little Red Riding-Hood / Charles Perrault --
The four friends / Jean de Lafontaine --
Memnon the philosopher / Voltaire --
Lausus and Lydia / J.F. Marmontel --
The mysterious mansion / Honoré de Balzac --
Mateo Falcone / Prosper Mérimée --
The mummy's foot / Théophile Gautier --
The torture of hope / Villiers de L'Isle Adam --
The last lesson / Alphonse Daudet --
The fairy Amoureuse / Émile Zola --
The substitute / François Coppée --
Our lady's juggler / Anatole France --
The necklace / Guy de Maupassant --
The bell of Atri (The hundred ancient tales) --
The falcon / Giovanni Boccaccio --
Galgano / Ser Giovanni --
The two ambassadors / Franco Sacchetti --
The cavalier of Toledo / Masuccio (Guardato) --
Belphagor / Niccolo Macchiavelli --
A king in disguise / Matteo Bandello --
The friar of Novara / Agnolo Firenzuola --
The Greek merchant / Giovanbattista Giraldi Cinthio --
The Venetian silk-mercer / Carlo Gozzi. Cavalleria rusticana / Giovanni Verga --
The peasant's will / Antonio Fogazzaro --
Mendicant melody / Edmondo de Amicis --
Lulu's triumph / Matilde Serao --
The hero / Gabriele d'Annunzio --
Two miracles / Grazia Deledda --
The miracle of the Jew (Chronicle of the Cid) --
The son and his friends / Juan Manuel --
How Lazaro served a bulero / Diego Hurtado de Mendoza --
Guzman and my lord Cardinal / Mateo Alemán --
Rinconete and Cortadillo / Miguel Cervantes --
The tall woman / Pedro Antonio de Alarcón --
Maese Perez, the organist / Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer --
Adios, Cordera! / Leopoldo Alas --
Story of Ming-Y ; Fickle widow (Marvelous tales) --
The virtuous daughter-in-law / Pu Sung-Ling --
The forty-seven ronins [ronin] / Anonymous --
The pier / Mori Ogwai --
A domestic animal / Shimazaki Toson --
The higher the flight the lower the fall / Jacob Cats --
The story of Saidjah / Eduard Douwes Dekker --
Grandfather's birthday present / Herman Heijermans --
The invisible wound / Karoly Kisfaludi --
A ball / Maurus Jokai --
The green fly / Kalman Mikszath --
The silver hilt / Ferenc Molnar --
The snow storm / Alexander Pushkin --
St. John's eve / Nikolai Gogol --
The district doctor / Ivan Turgenev --
The Christmas tree and the wedding / Feodor Dostoievsky [Dostoyevsky] --
The long exile / Leo Tolstoy --
The old bell-ringer / Vladimir Korolenko --
The signal / Vsevolod Garshin --
The bet / Anton Chekhov --
One autumn night / Maxim Gorky --
Silence / Leonid Andreyev. The lighthouse keeper of Aspinwall / Henryk Sienkiewicz --
The human telegraph / Boleslav Prus --
Forebodings / Stefan Zeromski --
A woman's wrath / Isaac Loeb Peretz --
The Passover guest / Sholom Aleichem --
A picnic / S. Libin --
The Kaddish / Abraham Raisin --
Abandoned / Sholom Asch --
In the storm / David Pinski --
Baldr's bale / Snorri Sturluson --
Regin's tale (Volsunga saga) --
The shepherdess and the sweep / Hans Christian Andersen --
Henrik and Rosalie / Meyer Aron Goldschmidt --
Two worlds / Jens Peter Jacobsen --
Smith who could not get into hell / Peter Christen Asbjörnsen and Jörgen Moe --
The father / Björnstjerne Björnson --
Skobelef / Johan Bojer --
Love and bread / August Strindberg --
The eclipse / Slema Lagerlöf --
The falcon / Per Hallström --
The mysterious picture / Charles de Coster --
The massacre of the innocents / Maurice Maeterlinck --
The soul of Veere / Camille Lemonnier --
One night / Emile Verhaeren --
The neighbor / Antun Gustav Matos --
Children and old folk / Ivan Cankar --
At the well / Laza K. Lazarevich --
The vampire / Jan Neruda --
Foltyn's drum / Svatopluk Cech --
The priest's tale / Demetrios Bikelas --
The Easter torch / I.L. Caragiale --
What Vasile saw / Marie, Queen of Roumania --
The commissioner's Christmas / Dimitr Ivanov --
Chivalry / Ricardo Fernández-García --
The attendant's confession / J.M. Machado de Assis --
The legend of Pygmalion / Ventura García-Calderón --
Creole democracy / Rufíno Blanco-Fombóna --
The deaf satyr / Rubén Darío --
The specter bridegroom / Washington Irving --
Mrs. Bullfrog / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe --
Journalism in Tennessee / Mark Twain --
The man and the snake / Ambrose Bierce --
The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte --
The story in it / Henry James --
King Solomon of Kentucky / James Lane Allen --
Miss Tempy's watchers / Sarah Orne Jewett --
A letter and a paragraph / Henry Cuyler Bunner --
Supply and demand / O. Henry --
A dark-brown dog / Stephen Crane --
The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser --
Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson --
A Wagner matinée / Willa Cather --
A brown woman / James Branch Cabell.
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Short stories, American Horror tales, American literature, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Murder, Crime in fiction, Gothic fiction (literary genre), Murder in fictionShowing 11 featured editions. View all 43 editions?
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Great Short Stories of the World
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Great Short Stories of the World: a collection of complete short stories chosen from the literatures of all periods and countries
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