Famous Modern Ghost Stories

By Various

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In the mood for some thrills and chills? Curl up with this 1921 collection of spooky tales by some of the English language’s best writers. Such masters of the supernatural as Edgar Allen Poe, Ambros ...

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Grimm's Fairy Tales

By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm

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"Once upon a time..." So begin many well-known and light-hearted fairy tales. In Grimm's Fairy Tales, however, the fables we read are full of a more potent combination of the dark and light, ...

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With a Little Help

By Cory Doctorow

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Here's what Cory Doctorow writes: ... With a Little Help is my first serious experiment in self-publishing. I’ve published many novels, short story collections, books of essays and so on with publis ...

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The Best American Humorous Short Stories

By Various

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Looking for a cure for everyday blahs? Try The Best American Humorous Short Stories, a 1920 treasury of favorite American writers at their funniest. Characters who range from the conniving to the ecc ...

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The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories

By P. G. Wodehouse

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P.G. Wodehouse’s The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories is an early collection of works written just as the author’s celebrated comic genius was reaching its razor-sharp peak. Whether encoun ...

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Classic Shorts: Eight Stories for Summer

By Poets & Writers

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This collection offers eight timeless short stories—by Chekhov, Fitzgerald, Poe, and others—for readers who want to rediscover the pleasures of the past. This collection was created exclusively f ...

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Lincoln's Yarns and Stories

By Alexander Kelly

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This 1901 collection of personal anecdotes and fables brings warmth and humanity to our image of Abraham Lincoln. Insightful and often humorous, these stories capture the essence of a man who has gone ...

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Andersen's Fairy Tales

By Hans Christian Andersen

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Beloved children's classics like The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina, and The Princess and the Pea come alive in Andersen's enchanting collection of stories.

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30 Stories in 30 Days

By David Wellington

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The author of Monster Island, the 13 Bullets series, and the upcoming Frostbite made his mark reinventing the classic monsters for the 21st century—zombies, vampires, and now werewolves. He got his ...

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Fetching Raymond

By John Grisham

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Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest Graney brother, Raymond, who’s been locked away on d ...

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Dubliners

By James Joyce

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Dubliners is James Joyce’s 1914 collection of short stories about common people living in Dublin, Ireland. Beginning with tales centered around and told by the very young, and moving into stories ab ...

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Tales of the Jazz Age

By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Dip into the dream-like glamour of the roaring twenties with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1922 short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. In this anthology, Fitzgerald’s stories fall into three categ ...

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Overclocked

By Cory Doctorow

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6 short stories: "After the Siege", "Anda's Game", "I, Robot", "I, Row-boat", "Printcrime", "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth".

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A Place So Foreign and Eight More

By Cory Doctorow

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Doctorow's first short-story collection. "Craphound", "0wnz0red", and others.

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The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories

By Anton Chekhov

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Here is a collection of stories from one of the most famous Russian authors of all time, Anton Chekhov. "The Black Monk," "Volodya", and "An Anonymous Story" all display Chekhov’s brilliance, but it ...

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White Horse

By Margaret Atwood

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Praise for Moral Disorder ... "Stories like 'The White Horse'...prove Atwood is still a master of the compelling, peculiar portrait of human behavior. (Grade: A-)" ... —Entertainment Weekly ... ...

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The Awakening and Selected Short Stories

By Kate Chopin

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Here we have a collection of Kate Chopin's writing that includes her masterpiece The Awakening. In that 1899 novel, a vacation brings about a wave of new experience and passion that one woman has neve ...

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Nana and Three Short Stories

By Émile Zola

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At nine o'clock in the evening the body of the house at the Theatres des Varietes was still all but empty. A few individuals, it is true, were sitting quietly waiting in the balcony and stalls, but th ...

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