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By: Anonymous (1821-1890) | |
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The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection’s genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her... | |
Child’s New Story Book
Short and sweet stories for children. | |
Tiny Story Book
Short and sweet stories for children. | |
Adventures of a Sixpence in Guernsey by A Native | |
Incidents of Childhood
Short stories for children that hide practical lessons within charming glimpses of life in England in the Early 19th Century. |
By: Anstey, F. (1856-1934) | |
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The Black Poodle and Other Tales
This is a collection of ten humorous short stories |
By: Anthony Hope (1863-1933) | |
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Frivolous Cupid |
By: Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) | |
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Aaron Trow
What is it like to be a fox hunted by hounds? We find out through the senses of an escaped convict as he struggles to free himself from would-be captors. The struggle is brutal. In the end, we are left wondering which person really wins--the pursued or the pursuer. Or perhaps which one is now the pursuer, which the pursued. | |
An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids | |
The Courtship of Susan Bell | |
The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box | |
The Mistletoe Bough | |
The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne | |
A Ride Across Palestine | |
Returning Home | |
Miss Sarah Jack of Spanish Town, Jamaica | |
Relics of General Chasse | |
The House of Heine Brothers | |
La Mere Bauche | |
John Bull on the Guadalquivir | |
Mrs. General Talboys | |
George Walker at Suez | |
O'Conors of Castle Conor | |
Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and Other Stories
A collection of five stories by Anthony Trollope: Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices; The Lady of Launay; Christmas at Thompson Hall; The Telegraph Girl; and Alice Dugdale | |
Editor's Tales
These 'tales' describe a series of encounters between various magazine editors and those who wish to have their works published. While containing some amusing bits, the tales are relatively grim, compared to most Trollope stories. The Turkish Bath: This editor, visiting a Turkish bath, is accosted by an Irish stranger, who, after some conversation, requests to submit a manuscript to the magazine. The editor's reactions to the solicitation and subsequent familiarity with the writer's circumstances forms the frame of the story... |
By: Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) | |
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The Tales of Chekhov
This is the first of thirteen volumes of Anton Chekhov’s short stories, translated by Constance Garnett. Anton Chekhov was a Russian doctor who turned to fiction as a hobby, and quickly blossomed into one of the masters of the short story genre. Though he is arguably best known for his dramatic works, such as The Cherry Orchard, his stories are widely considered to be some of the most perfect examples of short fiction ever written. Constance Black Garnett was an English housewife who taught herself Russian as a hobby, and subsequently introduced the English-speaking world to some of the greatest Russian authors, including Chekhov and Dostoevsky... | |
The Wife, and other stories | |
The Witch and other stories | |
The Schoolmistress, and other stories | |
House With The Mezzanine And Other Stories
Six short stories and a novella by the Russian master. (david wales) | |
Kashtanka
"Kashtanka," a shaggy-dog story penned by Anton Chekhov in seven parts and first published in 1887, relates the experiences of its eponymous heroine, a fox-faced, reddish dachshund-mix, whose name means 'little chestnut.' After her detestation of music causes her to become separated from the carpenter with whose family she had been living, Kashtanka finds herself taken up by an unusual vaudevillian and goes to live among an assortment of other intelligent animals, each of whom is observed with the characteristic empathy and humor that stamp Chekhov's work. | |
The Slanderer 1901 |