Short Stories Classics Books

Victorian Short Stories Successful Marriages by Various authors.

Beasts and Super-Beasts - This book is by H. H. Munro

Nevertheless, Prince Alexis was no longer the same man; his giant strength and furious appetite were broken. He was ever ready, as formerly, for the chase and the drinking-bout; but his jovial mood no longer grew into a crisis which only utter physical exhaustion or the stupidity of drunkenness...

Bret Harte's witty, sometimes heart-rending tales of frontier California, earned him acclaim during the 1860s as the new prophet of American letters. His books, The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat and M'liss, helped establish the foundations of western American fiction.

This collection of eight short stories encompasses works from authors between 1839-1914, including Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and Edgar Allen Poe

Maupassant's Short Stories Vol. 5 by Guy de Maupassant.

The Oracle and I were camped together. The Oracle was a bricklayer by trade, and had two or three small contracts on hand. I was "doing a bit of house-painting". There were a plasterer, a carpenter, and a plumber -- we were all T'othersiders, and old mates, and we worked things together.

A selection of works by Russian authors such as: A. S. Pushkin, N.V. Gogol, I.S. Turgenev, F.M. Dostoyevsky, L.N. Tolstoy, M.Y. Saltykov, and A.P. Chekhov.

A short story collection first published in 1904. A Relic of the Pliocene, A Hyperborean Brew, The Faith of Men, Too Much Gold, The One Thousand Dozen,The Marriage of Lit-Lit, Batard, The Story of Jees Uck.

Although the characters cannot change their final destiny, the can make choices along the way.