Single Author Collections
Meet Mr. Mulliner
A collection of short stories, originally published in periodicals, featuring the character Mr. Mulliner. - Summary by James Hutchisson
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Written by Baroness Orczy and first published in 1919, The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, T…
Lad: A Dog
Lad: A Dog is a 1919 American novel written by Albert Payson Terhune and published by E. P. Dutton. Composed of twelve short stories first p…
The Divine Companion
It cannot be said of this book that James Allen wrote it at any particular time or in any one year, for he was engaged in it over many years…
The Lady With the Dog
Anton Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. …
Present at a Hanging
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often …
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories showcases Mark Twain's profound exploration of human nature and morality through a collection of t…
Danger! and Other Stories
Danger! and Other Stories is a captivating collection of short tales by the renowned author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, best known for his creat…
The House With The Mezzanine
Six short stories and a novella by the Russian master. (david wales)
Dubliners
Dubliners is a collection of poignant short stories that capture the essence of life in early 20th-century Dublin. Through a series of vivid…
Tales of the Fish Patrol
Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp-catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast …
The Viaticum and Other Stories
This is volume is a collection of 50 of de Maupassant's short stories. Summary by James K. White.
Sevastopol
Sevastopol Sketches (Russian: Севастопольские рассказы, Sevastopolskiye rasskazy) are three short stories written by Leo Tolstoy and publish…
Among the Night People
Among the Night People invites listeners into a captivating world where the night comes alive with enchanting characters and curious creatur…
Tales of Men and Ghosts
Tales of Men and Ghosts was published as a collection in 1910, though the first eight of the stories had earlier appeared in Scribner's and …
A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories
The fourth collection of ghost stories made by the author, including one written for Queen Victoria (The haunted doll's house). - Summary b…
A Sportsman's Sketches
A Sportsman's Sketches (Russian: Записки охотника; also known as The Hunting Sketches and Sketches from a Hunter's Album) was an 1852 collec…
Twelve Stories and a Dream
Thirteen short stories by HG Wells, the master of speculative fiction! Included in this collection is "Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland&quo…
Poetry of St John of the Cross
The poems of St John of the Cross, with their mystic depth and spiritual ecstasy, stand among the world's great poems of Divine Love in all …
Revenge!
A collection of 20 short stories of the crime, detective, and thriller variety, sharing a common theme of .... you guessed it, revenge, and …