Short Story Books

Memoria Sobre A Descoberta Das Ilhas De Porto Santo E

  [english | 1875]  

Emiliano Augusto De Bettencourt

Excerpts: [... europeia. N'esta terra, cujo senhorio el-rei havia dado a D. Henrique, fundou elle uma villa, que se denominou do Infante, e a qual devia servir para ...... por capito donatario da ilha, Bartholomeu Perestrello, fidalgo da casa do infante D. Joo. Chegados que foram ilha de Porto Santo construiram suas ...... tendo desembarcado em diversas angras e perado no interior, voltaram a dar ...]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 389

The Dean Watch

  [english | 1897]  

Erckmann Chatrian

Summary: [This edition is limited to one thousand sets. This set not numbered.]
Genres: [short story | fiction and literature] Downloads: 472

The Bunch Of Violets

  [english | 1917]  

Ernest Bramah

Excerpts: [... Hulse, Flinders had proceeded, when it came to the business on which Carrados had been asked to call at Whitehall. Needless to say, he's no fool or ...... with or every girl he meets.. Quite so, nodded the blind man. Actually, we have been asked to take precautions. It isn't quite a case for the ...... Carrados laid a light hand on his companion's arm. Through some subtle ...]
Genres: [mysterydetective | short story] Downloads: 379

The Game Played In The Dark

  [english | 1914]  

Ernest Bramah

Summary: [Some copies have stamped on t.p. verso: Copyright 1905 by the Metropolitan Magazine Co. This notice occurs in two forms one with type larger than the other. Cf. BAL.]
Genres: [mysterydetective | short story | audiobook] Downloads: 454

Good Blood

  [english | ]  

Ernst Von Wildenbruch

Summary: [Good short story about an old man recalling an incident that occurred in his youth at a military school.]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 407

Die Verdorrten

  [german | 1921]  

Ernst Wei

Summary: [Adolph Ernst Knoch (December 19 1874 - March 28 1965) was the author of numerous theological writings and a Bible publisher. Knoch founded the Concordant Publishing Concern and the Concordant Version of the Bible.]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 181

A Box Of Dead Roses

  [english | ]  

Ethel Mills

Summary: [A beautiful story of an elderly Australian woman reflecting on her marriage.]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 116

The Mouse And The Moonbeam

  [english | 1912]  

Eugene Field

Summary: [Eugene Field Sr. (September 2 1850 ? November 4 1895) was an American writer best known for his childrens poetry and humorous essays.]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 235

The Ghost Whistle

  [english | 1917]  

Eugene Jones

Summary: [The Ghost Whistle by Eugene K Jones. If it s me answer ye want ye shall have it said he. Brother Holman the Lord took yer son just as the devil will take you some day. I can t give him back to ye but mark me words man He may come back if you don t mend your ways. He s watchin you now and hopin he didn t die in vain and when he finds he did you ll hear from him Yes I know about the railroad ...]
Genres: [ghost stories | short story | fiction and literature] Downloads: 364

The Eternal Feminine

  [english | 1900]  

Eva Wilder Brodhead

Excerpts: [... an effect frankly free of any pretension either esthetic or modish. There was a similar accent, artless and unfashionable, in the slack, smooth coiling ...... block of pink brick, its coal-grimed mine tipples and fans, its gathering of miners' paintless dwellings, of Mexican mud huts, and of pretty, ornate, ...... to know him in a friendly and familiar sort, the joy grows: it is a ...]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 241

Collector Item

  [english | 1954]  

Evelyn Smith

Summary: [Being trapped in the steaming h--l of Venus is no excuse for forgetting ones manners--but anyone abducted marooned tricked kept from tea might well crack under the strain!]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 289

The Doorway

  [english | 1955]  

Evelyn Smith

Excerpts: [... not so much a distinctive style as a distinctive manner. So startlingly original was his approach to the dark castles and haunted woodlands of ...... splits up and continues on two or more divergent planes, very much like the parthenogenesis of a unicellular animal . Delicious cookies these, ...... many of these different planes-or, as they are colloquially known, space-time ...]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 270

The Most Sentimental Man

  [english | 1957]  

Evelyn Smith

Excerpts: [... not yet June, the day was uncomfortably warm. The sun's rays glinting off the bright metal flanks of the ship dazzled his eyes, and perspiration made ...... plenty of room on the ship, he persisted. There weren't many left to go. We could take you easily enough, you know.. Johnson made a negative sign ...... that.. The commander was still unconsciously pursuing the same train of ...]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 33

A Gentleman Gentleman

  [english | 1909]  

F Hopkinson Smith

Summary: [A proper dyaloge betwene a Gentilman and a Husbandman eche complaynynge to other their miserable calamite through the ambicion of the clergye was printed in two versions by Hans Luft of Antwerp in 1529. This book appears in Robert Steeles list of books banned in Henrys reign Steele refers to it as Dialogue between gentleman plowman. While clearly in the Piers Plowman Tradition Piers does not ...]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 254

A List To Starboard

  [english | 1909]  

F Hopkinson Smith

Summary: [A List To Starboard And The Parthenon By Way Of Papendrecht Illustrated Edition Dodo Press by F Hopkinson Smith. Francis Hopkinson Smith 1838-1915 was an American author artist and engineer. He was a descendant of Francis Hopkinson one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Smith became a contractor in New York City and did much work for the federal government including the foundation ...]
Genres: [short story | nautical] Downloads: 0

Abijah Bubble

  [english | 1909]  

F Hopkinson Smith

Summary: [I found this story interesting. Good moral lesson]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 392

Fiddles

  [english | 1909]  

F Hopkinson Smith

Summary: [Fiddles by F Hopkinson Smith. This is Marny s story not mine. He had a hammer in his hand at the time and a tack between his teeth. Going to hang Fiddles right under the old fellow s head he burst out. That s where he belongs. I d have given a ten-acre if he could have drawn a bead on that elk himself. Fiddles behind a .44 Winchester and that old buck browsing to windward --and he nodded at the ...]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 266

Forty Minutes Late

  [english | 1909]  

F Hopkinson Smith

Summary: [This is a short I didnt like the first time I read it. Upon reading it again I thought it to be humorous and well thought out.]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 384

Homo

  [english | 1909]  

F Hopkinson Smith

Summary: [Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is is the title of the last original book written by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche before his final years of insanity that spanned until his death in 1900. It was written in 1888 and was not published until 1908. According to one of Nietzsches most prominent English translators Walter Kaufmann the book offers Nietzsches own interpretation of his development ...]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 32

The Little Gray Lady

  [english | 1909]  

F Hopkinson Smith

Excerpts: [... fragments thrust themselves out of the past as do the cuffs of an old-fashioned coat, the flutings of a flounce, or the lacings of a bodice ...... the Little Gray Lady. And yet no sobriquet could better express her personality: She was little-a dainty, elf-like littleness, with tiny feet and ...... and knobs, there was a narrow hall hung with old portraits, opening into a room ...]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 252