Short Stories Classics Books

Three great stories offer profound insights into human behavior and motivation. Title story plus "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" and "The Death of Ivan Ilych." Explanatory footnotes. he Kreutzer Sonata is a story that should be required reading for all considering marriage. After hearing the...

We had an excellent run, in which I may make bold to say that I did not acquit myself badly. I stuck very close to the hounds, as did the whole of the O'Conor brood; and when the fellow contrived to earth himself, as he did, I received those compliments on my horse, which is the most approved...

But I had business to attend to before I could go upstairs. In thinking over and arranging this plan for the capture of burglars, I had carefully considered its various processes, and had provided against all the contingencies I could think of; therefore I was not now obliged to deliberate what I...

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Stories is a collection of stories by Bret Harte.

Davis' Short Stories Vol. 2 by R. H. Davis.

Maupassant's Short Stories Vol. 8 by Guy de Maupassant.

A collection of O. Henry Memorial Award Stories of 1919 by Various Authors.

And thus she walked her path through the world, a stern, hard, solemn old woman, not without gusts of passionate explosion; but honest withal, and not without some inward benevolence and true tenderness of heart. Children she had had many, some seven or eight. One or two had died.....

The stories in this book have been growing together for a long time.There are only little, broken chapters from the long story of life. None of them is taken from other books. Only one of them--the story of Winifried and the Thunder-Oak--has the slightest wisp of a foundation in fact or legend.

George Walker At Suez by Anthony Trollope.