Works (Awakening / Beyond the Bayou / Desiree's Baby / Kiss ...

by Kate Chopin

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en!

The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

by Ernest Hemingway

IT WAS NOW LUNCH TIME AND THEY WERE all sitting under the double green fly of the dining tent pretending that nothing ha...

The Black Cat

by Edgar Allan Poe

FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to open, I neither expect nor solicit belief.

Les Robots

by Isaac Asimov

I looked at my notes and I didn't like them.

The Kreutzer sonata and other stories

by Лев Толстой

Travellers left and entered our car at every stopping of the train.

Goodbye, Columbus and five short stories

by Philip Roth

Just So Stories

by Rudyard Kipling

IN THE sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes.

Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.

White Nights and other stories [7 stories]

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Breakfast at Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

Es zieht mich stets dorthin zurück, wo ich einmal gelebt habe, zu den Häusern, der Gegend.

The reluctant dragon

by Kenneth Grahame, Jim Weiss

LONG ago-might have been hundreds of years ago-in a cottage halfway between a little English village and the shoulder of...

Collected short stories

by William Somerset Maugham

THERE are few books in the world that contain more meat than the Sailing Directions published by the Hydrographic Depart...

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

Rashomon and other stories

by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

To sketch the background and temperament of Akutagawa Ryunosuke is to risk a melancholy cliche.

Белые ночи

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

C'était une nuit de conte, ami lecteur, une de ces nuits qui ne peuvent guère survenir que dans notre jeunesse.

Fairy Tales and Stories

by Hans Christian Andersen

The Clocks

by Agatha Christie

TO use police terms: at 2:59 P.M. on September 9th.

The Prince and the Pauper

by Mark Twain

Short stories

by H. G. Wells

The Happy Prince and other tales

by Oscar Wilde

High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince.