short stories

Presents Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Notes From Underground", which explores the passionate confessions of a suffering man who identifies himself as sick and spiteful, as well as two additional short stories and excerpts from his longer work, "The House of the Dead.".

Contains four Christmas stories written by Charles Dickens, including the classic story of Ebinezer Scrooge who is visited by a series of ghosts on Christmas Eve.

Text and illustrations present nine Inuit creation stories from the Qikiqtani Region of Nunavut.

Contains nine darkly comic stories of working-class men in 1950s Nottingham.

Presents forty-three short stories by nineteenth-century American author Mark Twain, including "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "The Professor's Yarn," and "Is He Living or Is He Dead?".

Sholem Aleichem, Nelson Algren, William E. Barrett, Walter Bernstein, Bidpai, Ambrose Bierce, Bjornstjerne bjornson, Boccaccio, Ray Bradbury, Ventura Garcia Calderon, Erskine Caldwell, Anton Chekhov, Samuel Clemens, John Collier, Stephen Crane, Alphonse Daudet, Rhys Davies, Walter De La Mare, Guy De Maupassant, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Lord Dunsany, James T. Farrell, C.S. Forester, E. M. Forster, Angelica Gibbs, Brendan Gill, Oliver Goldsmith, Herbert Goldstone, Maxim Gorky, Graham Greene, James Hanley, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Haycox, Lafcadio Hearn, Ben Hecht, O. Henry, Aldous Huxley, Washington Irving, Shirley Jackson, MacKinlay Kantor, Isaac Loeb Perez, Michael McLaverty, Russell Maloney, Katherine Mansfield, Richard Matheson, Somerset Maugham, Andre Maurois, Herman Melville, Prosoer Merimee, Liam O'Flaherty, Palacio Valdes, Ricardo Palma, Dorothy Parker, Edgar Allan Poe, Horacio Quiroga, Damon Runyon, Saki, William Saroyan, Francis Steegmuller, Richard Steele, John Steinbeck, August Strindberg, Leo Tolstoy, Villiers De L'isle-Adam, Heinrich Von Kliest, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Jerome Weidman, E.B. White Alexander Woollcott, Eugene Ivanovich Zamiatin, Elsa Zantner, Leane Zugsmith, Arnold Zweig.

A collection of eleven sinister stories by a variety of authors, including "The Coldest Touch," the fifth and final installment in Bruce Coville's "The Monsters of Morley Manor," series.

Contains twenty short stories recording the odyssey of man's soul during the past hundred years.

Contains selections from: Hawthorne, Maupassant, Poe, James, Conrad, Huxley, Joyce, Hemingway, Porter, Faulkner, White, Saroyan, Salinger, and others.