Short Stories

10 best books like Short Stories (Edith Wharton): The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen Other Tales, The Human Comedy: Selected Stories, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime, Four Major Plays, Vol. 2: Ghosts / An Enemy of the People / The Lady from the Sea / John Gabriel Borkman, Bang Ditto, Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems, The Prank: The Best of Young Chekhov, Collected Stories of Guy De Maupassant, Great American Short Stories, Stories by O. Henry (Walmart)

AuthorRobert Louis Stevenson
ISBN0375761357
The complexity and range of Robert Louis Stevenson’s short fiction reveals his genius perhaps more than any other medium. Here, leading Stevenson scholar Barry Menikoff arranges and introduces the complete selection of Stevenson’s brilliant stories, including the famed masterpiece Strange...
AuthorHonoré de Balzac
ISBN1590176641
An NYRB Classics Original

We think of Honoré de Balzac as the author of long and fully upholstered novels, stitched together into the magnificent visionary document called The Human Comedy. Yet along with the full-length fiction within The Human Comedy stand many shorter works, among the...
AuthorMichael Sims
ISBN0143105663
Take a trip back to a time when criminals armed themselves with wit rather than with guns, and the pinnacle of crime-fighting technology was represented by Sherlock Holmes's magnifying glass. Edited by award-winning author and editor Michael Sims, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime presents, for...
AuthorHenrik Ibsen
ISBN0451525159
In Hedda Gabler and The Master Builder Ibsen shifted his focus from the pressures exerted on women by society to the pressures individuals exert on other individuals in their urge to dominate and control one another. Hedda Gabler, 'a-crawl with the foulest passions of humanity', as one contemporary...
AuthorAmber Tamblyn
ISBN1933149345
We'd all love to stop eating
the poisonous parts of our wildness.

Ever wondered what it's like to be a celebrated Hollywood actor from the age of eleven? With insightful, no BS, cards-on-the-table poetry that is quite serious yet has fun with metaphor, imagery, and language itself, author...
AuthorElizabeth Barrett Browning
ISBN0486270521
Excerpt from Sonnets From the Portuguese, and Other Poems
In the very heart and center of our modern world of the nineteenth century there was enacted and immortally sung one of the most exquisite love-histories of which the world has knowledge. The marriage of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett...
AuthorAnton Chekhov
An NYRB Classics Original

The Prank is Chekhov’s own selection of the best of his early work, the first book he put together and the first book he hoped to publish. Assembled in 1882, with illustrations by Nikolay Chekhov, the book was then presented to the censor for approval—which was...
AuthorGuy de Maupassant
ISBN0517457512

Collected Stories of Guy de Maupassant is part of the  series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &...
AuthorPaul Negri
Featuring 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this new compilation begins with Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1835 tale "Young Goodman Brown" and ranges across an entire century, concluding with Ernest Hemingway's 1927 classic, "The Killers."...
AuthorO. Henry
ISBN: 1559029838 (Do NOT enter in ISBN field!)

Born William Sidney Porter in 1862, O. Henry first lived a checkered life as a cowhand, bank teller, reporter, embezzler, and convict. Then, in a last-minute reversal worthy of one of his own stories, he turned to fiction, and became a celebrated...
AuthorVirginia Woolf
ISBN0156935902
Beautiful snippets of her works. She is a stunning writer, and I want her works on my shelves! Now! I couldn't get enough cake! I don't know where to begin! Should I start with the Lighthouse or Orlando? How about re-reading her essays or her plentiful diaries? So much to do so little time. Time? A room to...
An Astrologer's Day and Other Stories
AuthorR.K. Narayan
ISBN0882531050
R.K. Narayan is a literary master, and there is no doubt about that. He writes about the most ordinary people, like that schoolmaster that you hated, or the sweetmeat seller that brought joy on children's faces. But what he writes, he writes beautifully. And no one, I repeat no one can do humour like him....
How to Catch a Man, How to Keep a Man, How to Get Rid of a Man
AuthorZsa Zsa Gabor
ISBN0671772945
Hee hee hee. Found this wonderful book this morning at the Brandeis Book Sale in Skokie, Illinois. Wasn't sure what book category to list it under--Philosophy? Romance? Women's Fiction?--but I settled on Entertainment.

So far I have read about 25 pages and have not yet developed an urge to...
The World's Greatest Short Stories
AuthorJames Daley
ISBN0486447162
Wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable, this outstanding collection features short stories by great 19- and 20th-century writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe.
Included are Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," in which two waiters and a lonely customer...
AuthorArnold Lobel
ISBN0062292587
Celebrate the power of friendship with all four of the beloved Frog and Toad I Can Read stories by Arnold Lobel

This 9x9 hardcover treasury includes the complete art and text from four classics: Frog and Toad Are Friends, Frog and Toad Together, Frog and Toad All Year, and Days with Frog and Toad....
The Best Short Stories
AuthorRudyard Kipling
ISBN1853261793
This is a fascinating selection of Kipling's most famous short stories, bringing together the very best of his work. "Life's Handicap" reflects his experiences of India, and contains two horror stories which permeate the collection with an air of haunted destinies.

Delusions and obsessions,...
AuthorA.A. Milne
ISBN0307706109
WINNIE-THE-POOH
POOH GOES VISITING" and other stories"
Story 1 In which we are introduced
Story 2 In which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place
Story 3 In which Pooh and Piglet go hunting and nearly catch a Woozle
Story 4 In which Eeyore loses a tail and Pooh finds one
Story...
The Sojourner
AuthorMarjorie Kinnan Rawlings
ISBN0877972281
This is a beautifully written story about one man's quest to find his right and proper place in life. I read this one as part of a challenge to read a book published my year of birth - 1953 and am so glad that I chose this one from the many available that year.

I loved much about this story, especially...
AuthorJames Lasdun
ISBN0374299021
The stories in this remarkable collection--including "An Anxious Man," winner of the National Short Story Prize (UK)--are vibrant and gripping. James Lasdun's great gift is his unfailing psychological instinct for the vertiginous moments when the essence of a life discloses itself. With forensic...
AuthorDave Eggers
ISBN1938073630
This book is why we need to have vigorous bookstores and libraries in every neighborhood. I stopped by my local independent bookseller to look for a list of books I was interested in. This book was not on my list, but it leapt off the shelf — the cover picture and title were irresistible. After browsing...
AuthorGiovanni Verga
First Published in a single volume in 1883, the stories collected in Little Novels of Sicily are drawn from the Sicily of Giovanni Verga's childhood, reported at the time to be the poorest place in Europe. Verga's style is swift, sure, and implacable; he plunges into his stories almost in midbreath,...
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