Books Tagged ‘Short Stories’
Poirot Investigates
Subject: Mystery
Poirot Investigates is a short story collection written by English author Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in March 1924. In the eleven stories, ...
Tags: Classics, Mystery, Short Stories, Fiction, Crime, Detective
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant
Subject: Fiction
“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt. ” These words of Maupassant to Jose Maria de Heredia on the occasion of a memorable meeting are, i...
Tags: Short Stories, Fiction, Literature, France
The Cask of Amontillado
Subject: Horror
“The Cask of Amontillado” (sometimes spelled “The Casque of Amontillado”) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city ...
Tags: Horror, Gothic, Short Stories, Academic, Fiction
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Subject: Horror
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is a gothic story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled The Sketch ...
Tags: Horror, Gothic, Short Stories, Fantasy, Fiction
The Jungle Book
Subject: Fiction
The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, thou...
Tags: Short Stories, Childrens, Adventure, Fantasy, Fiction, Animals
Dubliners
Subject: Fiction
Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They comprise a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dubli...
Tags: Short Stories, Fiction, Literature, Ireland
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
Subject: Fiction
The Awakening, novel by Kate Chopin, published in 1899. Originally titled A Solitary Soul, the novel depicts a young mother’s struggle to achieve sexual and personal emancipatio...
Tags: Classics, Short Stories, Feminism, Fiction
A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
Subject: Fiction
A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & H...
Tags: Classics, Short Stories, Fiction
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Subject: Fiction
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It con...
Tags: Classics, Short Stories, Childrens, Fantasy
The Yellow Wallpaper
Subject: Fiction
Based on the author’s own experiences, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ is the chilling tale of a woman driven to the brink of insanity by the ‘rest cure’ prescribed after the...
Tags: Classics, Horror, Gothic, Short Stories, Mental Health