Description

This collection of short stories launches a series of short stories available via DailyLit. Additional collections in this series will automatically be sent to you once they become available.

Every year there is a new crop of best-selling beach reads vying for the attention of summer vacationers everywhere. Readers rarely have trouble filling the long, hot days with new books, but for those who love classic fiction—the writing that laid the groundwork for all of this newer work—there is no better time to sample it than summer. This collection, compiled exclusively for DailyLit by Poets & Writers, offers eight timeless short stories—by Chekhov, Fitzgerald, Poe, and others—for readers who want to rediscover the pleasures of the past.

Contents

A Doctor's Visit by Anton Chekhov
A Respectable Woman by Kate Chopin
The Jelly-Bean by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
Ivan the Fool by Leo Tolstoy
Author! by P. G. Wodehouse

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THE Professor received a telegram from the Lyalikovs' factory; he was asked to come as quickly as possible. The daughter of some Madame Lyalikov, apparently the owner of the factory, was ill, and that was all that one could make out of the long, incoherent telegram. And the Professor did not go ...