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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"Fiction" by Alice Munro

By Alice Munro

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In "Fiction," by bestselling author Alice Munro, a narrator lovingly describes the life and home she's built with her husband—and then describes how that life crumbles before her eyes. The rest ...

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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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The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon

By Washington Irving

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One of the first truly American books—and the birthplace of the Headless Horseman.

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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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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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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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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories

By Ivan Turgenev

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This collection of Ivan Turgenev’s work opens with a character in a bleak situation. Tchulkaturin, the unlikely hero of “The Diary of a Superfluous Man,” has just two weeks to live. Facing the p ...

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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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