Short Story Books
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Service With A Smile
[english | 1958]Charles Louis Fontenay
Summary: [Herbert was truly a gentleman robot. The ladies slightest wish was his command....]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 147
Seth
[english | 1877]Frances Hodgson Burnett
Summary: [Surly Tim. A Lancashire story.--Le monsieur de la petite dame.--Smethurstses.--One day at Arle.--Esmeralda.--Me?re Girauds little daughter.--Lodusky.--Seth.]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 351
The Absence Of Mr Glass
[english | 1912]G Chesterton
Summary: [Very good indeed. Well-written amusing in places with a fairly ingenious plot for so short a story.]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 139
The Absurdity Is Just That It Should Be Absurd
[english | 1915]Henry Kitchell Webster
Summary: [too short! n a little absurd as well.]
Genres: [short story | romance] Downloads: 339
The Adolescence Of Number Eighty Seven
[english | 1906]Arthur Stringer
Excerpts: [... Adolescence of Number Eighty-Seven. By Arthur Stringer. TAKEN FROM METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE, MAY 1906. The prairie drift-snow shrilled ...... wildcat, and then scramble perilously up to the cab and close the throttle. So Web had accepted his subscription gold watch with a grin and taken a ...... said Web, with his handful of waste, as he petted the great shimmering piston-rod, very ...]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 433
The Adopted
[english | 1906]Annie Hamilton Donnell
Summary: [THIS STORY WAS TOO SHORT I READ IT IN LESS THAN FIVE MINUTES IT IS MORE LIKE A PAGE FROM A STORY. NOT EVEN WORTH THE DOWNLOAD TIME]
Genres: [short story | fiction and literature] Downloads: 321
The Adventure Of The Bruce Partington Plans
[english | 1912]Arthur Conan Doyle
Summary: [Second of the Sherlock Holmes stories to feature Mycroft Holmes as a character. One of the better short stories.]
Genres: [adventure | mysterydetective | short story] Downloads: 329
The Adventure Of The Cantankerous Old Lady
[english | 1899]Grant Allen
Summary: [Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24 1848 ? October 25 1899) was a science writer author and novelist and a successful upholder of the theory of evolution.]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 433
The Adventure Of The Cardboard Box
[english | 1917]Arthur Conan Doyle
Excerpts: [... at niy was no hardship. But the morning paper was uninteresting. Parliament had risen. Everybody was out of town, and I yearned for the glades of the ...... but certainly with your eyebrows. So when I saw you throw down your paper and enter upon a train of thought, I was very happy to have the opportunity ...... it is, under the financial column. Perhaps you would be good enough to ...]
Genres: [mysterydetective | short story] Downloads: 248
The Adventure Of The Devil Foot
[english | 1917]Arthur Conan Doyle
Excerpts: [... attitude upon the part of my friend and certainly not any lack of interesting material which has caused me of late years to lay very few of my records ...... of stone, irregular mounds which contained the burned ashes of the dead, and curious earthworks which hinted at prehistoric strife. The glamour and ...... affair. I may explain, then, that our friend here spent last evening in ...]
Genres: [mysterydetective | short story] Downloads: 412
The Adventure Of The Dying Detective
[english | 1917]Arthur Conan Doyle
Summary: [One of my favorite Holmes stories probably because Watson is an active character. Holmes is ill and he refuses to allow Watson to treat him.]
Genres: [mysterydetective | short story] Downloads: 316
The Adventure Of The Mazarin Stone
[english | 1921]Arthur Conan Doyle
Excerpts: [... of the first floor in Baker Street which had been the starting-point of so many remarkable adventures. He looked round him at the scientific charts ...... the alcove of the bow window. Dr. Watson could not restrain a cry of amazement. There was a facsimile of his old friend, dressing-gown and all, the ...... my time, said Billy. He drew the window curtains apart and looked out into ...]
Genres: [mysterydetective | short story] Downloads: 314
The Adventure Of The Red Circle
[english | 1917]Arthur Conan Doyle
Excerpts: [... Doyle entitled His Last Bow. October, 2000 [Etext #2345] [Date last updated: December 31, 2005]. *The Etext of The Adventure of the Red Circle* ****** ...... me then and there. 'You can have the same every fortnight for a long time to come if you keep the terms,' he said. 'If not, I'll have no more to do with ...... by his accent.. And he was well dressed.. Very smartly dressed, ...]
Genres: [mysterydetective | short story] Downloads: 31
The Adventure Of Wisteria Lodge
[english | 1914]Arthur Conan Doyle
Excerpts: [... find it recorded in my notebook that it was a bleak and windy day towards the end of March in the year 1892. Holmes had received a telegram ...... as to the events which let up to the death last night of Mr. Aloysius Garcia, of Wisteria Lodge, near Esher.. Our client had sat up with staring ...... slightly. He opened the door himself, however, and greeted me with a great show of ...]
Genres: [mysterydetective | short story] Downloads: 22
The Adventurer
[english | 1953]C Kornbluth
Summary: [A very good story Mr. Kornbluth keeps your attention and provides a lot of entertainment in a short story.]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 457
The Affair Of The Avalanche Bicycle And Tyre Co Ltd
[english | 1897]Arthur Morrison
Summary: [A short story about morality in business. As timely today as over a century ago.]
Genres: [mysterydetective | short story] Downloads: 469
The Affair Of The Corridor Express
[english | ]Victor Whitechurch
Excerpts: [... strengthening the muscles of the eye for angular sight. Presently there came a tap at the door. Come in. cried Hazell, still whirling his head ...... it.. Wingrave, however, chose the whiskey, and Hazell poured him out some, adding soda-water. Thank you, he said. I hope you'll be able to give ...... Hazell. Exactly. There have been such cases known, and Dr Spring has a very high ...]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 23
The Alternate Plan
[english | 1958]Gerry Maddren
Summary: [A very good story I thought. Well written and interesting.]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 351
The Amazing Mrs Mimms
[english | 1958]David Carpenter Knight
Excerpts: [... between two packing cases which had once contained breakfast foods. The excursion through time had evidently been a smooth one for the smile had ...... Mimms hurried swiftly on for there was much she had to do. Then she stopped abruptly before a small delicatessen. She entered and gave the clerk her ...... said the super, consulting a board from which hung a number of keys. Most of ...]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 348
The Angel Over The Right Shoulder
[english | 1852]Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Summary: [The Angel is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about an angel and a dead child gathering flowers to carry to Heaven. The tale was first published with three others in Copenhagen Denmark by C. A. Reitzel in November 1843. The four tales were received by the Danish critics with great acclaim.]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 218