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By: Bret Harte (1836-1902)

Book cover Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories

A collection of short stories set in the American West at the end of the 19th century.

Book cover Under the Redwoods
Book cover Legends and Tales
Book cover Tales of the Argonauts
Book cover Tales of Trail and Town
Book cover The Bell-Ringer of Angel's
Book cover Condensed Novels: New Burlesques
Book cover A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories
Book cover Stories in Light and Shadow
Book cover Urban Sketches
Book cover Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation
Book cover Openings in the Old Trail
Book cover Drift from Two Shores
Book cover Trent's Trust, and Other Stories

By: Bryce Walton (1918-1988)

Book cover Has Anyone Here Seen Kelly?
Book cover Strange Alliance

By: C. Alphonso Smith (1864-1924)

Book cover Short Stories Old and New

By: C. C. Beck

Book cover Vanishing Point

By: C. C. MacApp (1917-1971)

Book cover And All the Earth a Grave
Book cover Tulan

By: C. M. Kornbluth (1924-1958)

Book cover The Altar at Midnight

By: Cal Stewart (1856-1919)

Book cover Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories

A collection of comedic short stories from the perspective of an old country man.

By: Carl Richard Jacobi (1908-1997)

Book cover The Long Voyage
Book cover Made in Tanganyika

By: Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg Rootabaga Stories

Carl Sandburg is beloved by generations of children for his Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons (which is not in the public domain), a series of whimsical, sometimes melancholy stories he originally created for his own daughters. The Rootabaga Stories were born of Sandburg’s desire for “American fairy tales” to match American childhood. He felt that the European stories involving royalty and knights were inappropriate, and so populated his stories with animals, skyscrapers, trains, corn fairies, and other colorful characters.

By: Catherine L. Moore (1911-1987)

Book cover Song in a Minor Key

By: Cecil Henry Bompas

Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas Folklore of the Santal Parganas

This is an intriguing collection of folklore from the Santal Parganas, a district in India located about 150 miles from Calcutta. As its Preface implies, this collection is intended to give an unadulterated view of a culture through its folklore. It contains a variety of stories about different aspects of life, including family and marriage, religion, and work. In this first volume, taken from Part I, each story is centered around a particular human character. These range from the charmingly clever (as in the character, The Oilman, in the story, “The Oilman and His Sons”) to the tragically comical (as in the character, Jhore, in the story “Bajun and Jhore”)...

By: Charles A. Gunnison (1861-1897)

Book cover In Macao

By: Charles A. Stearns

Book cover The Marooner

By: Charles B. Cory (1857-1921)

Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales by Charles B. Cory Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales

This is a collection of weird tales inspired from the natural history expeditions of the author, an independently wealthy bird collector, Olympic golfer, writer of many books on birds of the world, and, as evidenced in these pages, a fine storyteller to boot.

By: Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

The Wreck of the Golden Mary by Charles Dickens The Wreck of the Golden Mary

A short story of a ship wreck in 1851 trying to round Cape Horn on its way to the California gold fields. Poignant and well written. (

Mudfog and Other Sketches by Charles Dickens Mudfog and Other Sketches

The Mudfog Papers was written by Victorian era novelist Charles Dickens and published from 1837–38 in the monthly literary serial Bentley's Miscellany, which he then edited. They were first published as a book as 'The Mudfog Papers and Other Sketches. The Mudfog Papers relates the proceedings of the fictional 'The Mudfog Society for the Advancement of Everything', a Pickwickian parody of the British Association for the Advancement of Science founded in York in 1831, one of the numerous Victorian learned societies dedicated to the advancement of Science...


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