Short Stories Classics Books

The Poisoned Pen and Other Stories is by Arthur B. Reeve.

As I was not myself possessed of anything of that sort, and had no intention of going to any foreign court, I could not argue the matter with her. But I assisted her in getting together an enormous pile of luggage, among which there were seven large boxes covered with canvas, such as ladies not...

For a moment he stood still, then stalked up to the table, and, with a heavy thump, dropped down into a chair. There he remained with his elbows resting on his knees, and absently staring on the floor. His long hair hung in wet tangles down over his face, and the wrinkles about his mouth seemed...

But the madness was upon him none the less, and it rode and roweled him like a hag from dawn to dark and from dark to dawn again, till in his complete loneliness, in the isolation of that simple, primitive life, where no congenial mind relieved the monotony by so much as a word, morbid, hounded...

A collection of O. Henry Memorial Award Stories of 1921 by Various Authors.

That settles it, Pyecraft! Since you WILL be abject, since you WILL behave as though I was not a man of honour, here, right under your embedded eyes, I write the thing down--the plain truth about Pyecraft. The man I helped, the man I shielded, and who has requited me by making my club unendurable.

In this FREE e-Book, 19th Century American realist, Henry James examines the nature of both sacred art and the artist who created it. Download it today!

Written by A.W. Ward, this is the FREE e-Book version of the biography of English Writer, Geoffrey Chaucer. Chaucer is best known for having authored "The Canterbury Tales"--which are ranked among the greatest epic works in world literature. Download it now!

The Toys of Peace and Other Stories by Munro (Saki) is by H. H. Munro (Saki)

The Best Mystery and Detective Stories edited by Julian Hawthorne.