Short Stories Classics Books

"Master and Man" is the story of the merchant Brekhunov and his servant Nikita as they set out for a neighbouring town in atrocious winter conditions. They get lost and thereafter battle for survival against the elements. Will they make it and will their fight result in a new outlook on life?

Includes tales by Rudyard Kipling, Miss Mitford, R.K. Douglas, Mary Beaumont, Morley Roberts, and Netta Syrett.

Thonias Hewlings Stockton, clergyman, wrote fantastic tales for children under the pen name Frank R. Stockton. He also wrote books for adults. Among his amusing books for children Rudder Grange is the best known. The Lady and the Tiger is one of his most popular works.

This compilation of 56 short pieces which describe the everyday life of people in London during the 1800's, and it includes accompanying illustrations.

From introduction by G.K. Chesterton: Here, in the very act of describing a kind of a fall from humanity, Gorky expresses a sense of the strangeness and essential value of the human being which is far too commonly absent altogether from such complex civilisations as our own.

The Duel is the main and longest story, but I don't really think it was the best. It is the story about a man in the Caucasus and his troubles with his wife and a biologist which culminates in a duel. All the characters are excellently written, and the story was very well done, but the end leaves...

Maupassant's Short Stories Vol. 11 by Guy de Maupassant.

Doyle, the English novelist best known for his Sherlock Holmes detective books, also wrote historical novels.

A collections of short stories by English author, Maurice Bearing.

The $30,000 Bequest provides a rare long view of Twain's work, covering virtually his entire career, from "Advice to Young Girls" to the title story, written in 1904. Whether he is probing the dynamics of a marriage in "The $30,000 Bequest," or tapping into the nature of hierarchies of abusive...