Language: English

Published: 1894

Of the stories contained in this volume,

Language: English

Published: 1887

Author: Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen

Language: English

Published: 1922

Translated into english by W.J. Alexander Worster, this is a collection of short stories from a Norwegian town called Holm.

Language: English

Published: 1847

Stories in this volume: Rosaura: A Tale of Madrid, Adventure in the North-West Territory, Harry Bolton's Curacy, The Florida Pirate, The Pandour and his Princess and The Beauty Draught.

Language: English

Published: 1921

Forty-some essays from this humorous and talented journalist and writer.

Author: Various Authors

Language: English

Published: 1846

The Surveyor's Tale. By Professor Aytoun.The Forrest-Race RomanceDi Vasari: A Tale of Florence. By the late Charles Edwards, Esq.Sigismund FatelloThe Boxes

Author: John Wight

Language: English

Published: 1875

Close to one hundred humorous stories about petty crimes.

Author: Henryk Sienkiewicz

Language: English

Published: 1904

Contains the five stories; Life and Death, Is He the Dearest One?, A Legend of The Sea, The Cranes and The Judgement of Peter and Paul on Olympus.

Language: English

Published: 1888

A collection of short stories including Anna's Whim, By the River and Scarlet Stockings.

Language: English

Published: 1902

A collection of twelve heart warming stories for children.Premise: a winter storm forces a family, who have gathered for the winter holidays, to stay inside and listen to their grandmothers stories.

Language: English

Published: 1916

Translation of Nikolai Gogols work with an introduction to Gogol written by Prosper Merimée.Contains five stories:- The mantle- The nose- Memoirs of a mad man- A may night- The viy

Author: Laurence Housman

Language: English

Published: 1894

Volume 3

Author: William Painter

Language: English

Published: 1890

ELIZABETHAN VERSIONS OF ITALIAN AND FRENCH NOVELSFROM BOCCACCIO, BANDELLO, CINTHIO, STRAPAROLA,QUEEN MARGARET OF NAVARRE,AND OTHERS

And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of the City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business

Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Language: English

Published: 1911

Language: English

Published: 1918

Of these stories it is difficult to speak without undue enthusiasm. With admirable economy of means, Tagore has succeeded in conveying the utmost subtlety of nostalgic remembrance, and the sensuous beauty of shrouded landscape in which he projects his figures sustains profound emotional revelation without undue tightening of the literary fabric. His literary method is a strange one to us, but it might well be the beginning of a new short story tradition in which an American writer could find inspiration as fresh as the new impulse that the discovery of Japanese prints brought to Whistler and others that followed him.

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Language: English

Published: 1905

Tales of Adventure
  Début of Bimbashi Joyce
  The Surgeon of Gaster Fell
  Borrowed Scenes
  The Man from Archangel
  The Great Brown-Pericord Motor
  The Sealed Room
  

Tales of Medical Life
  A Physiologist's Wife
  Behind The Times
  His First Operation
  The Third Generation
  The Curse of Eve
  A Medical Document
  The Surgeon Talks
  The Doctors of Hoyland
  Crabbe's Practice

Author: Ernest Bramah

Language: English

Published: 1914

Max Carrados is blind, but in his case blindness is more than counter-balanced by an enormously enhanced perception of the other senses. How these serve their purpose in the various difficulties and emergencies that confront the wealthy amateur when, through the instigation of his friend Louis Carlyle, a private inquiry agent, he devotes himself to the elucidation of mysteries, is the basis of Mr. Ernest Bramah's new book. The adventures that ensure range from sensational tragedy to romantic comedy as the occasions rise.

Contents: The Coin of Dionysius -- The Knight’s Cross Signal Problem -- The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage -- The Clever Mrs Straithwaite -- The Last Exploit of Harry the Actor -- The Tilling Shaw Mystery -- The Comedy at Fountain Cottage -- The Game Played in the Dark

From the Skazki of Polevoi

Author: Robert Nisbet Bain

Language: English

Published: 1901

Language: English

Published: 1899

In the safe sheltered comfort of a winter's fire, as the title suggests, these stories of horror will rouse tolerable shudders; but elsewhere they had best be avoided. They are worse than ghost stories, for they haunt the mind even more than they work on the nerves. Even the cheerful nightmares among them, like "Dinah's Mammoth," and such flippant ones as "William Tyrwhitt's 'Copy,'" have this effect. Science--probably quite bad science--has inspired a few; not one has been suggested by a commonplace circumstance. On the whole, they are difficult reading--which is some defence against their powers of haunting--the produce of a restlessly inventive brain, which frets itself overmuch in its task of entertaining a stupider public than it has any notion of. The tales are clever and original; but we don't advise Mr. Capes to continue this task, where Mr. Wells easily surpasses him.

Contents: The moon stricken -- Jack and Jill -- The vanishing house -- Dark Dignum -- William Tyrwhitt’s "copy" -- A lazy romance -- Black Venn -- An eddy on the floor -- Dinah's mammoth -- The black reaper -- A voice from the pit.

Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions

Author: Wirt Sikes

Language: English

Published: 1880

In a certain sense Wales may be spoken of as the cradle of fairy legend. It is not now disputed that from the Welsh were borrowed many of the first subjects of composition in the literature of all the cultivated peoples of Europe.

Author: Henry Abbott

Language: English

Published: 1919

Author: George Manville Fenn

Language: English

Published: 1867

A Series of Short Sketches

Author: George Manville Fenn

Language: English

Published: 1867

Author: Elphinstone Dayrell

Language: English

Published: 1910

Author: Various Authors

Language: Finnish

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Language: English

Published: 1900

Tales of Pirates
I Captain Sharkey: How the Governor of Saint Kitt's Came Home
II The Dealings of Captain Sharkey with Stephen Craddock
III The Blighting of Sharkey
IV How Copley Banks Slew Captain Sharkey
V The "Slapping Sal"
VI A Pirate of the Land (One Crowded Hour)
Tales of Blue Water
VII The Striped Chest
VIII The Captain of the "Polestar"
IX The Fiend of the Cooperage
X Jelland's Voyage
XI J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement
XII That Little Square Box

Language: English

Published: 1908

A collection of romantic tales of lovers, the scene being laid in England, Scotland and France, but chiefly in the author's own beloved Ireland. Miss Tynan has made her reputation as a champion of the cause of preserving what is sweetest and best in her country's traditions, and her many admirers will find nothing lacking in this new book.

Stories

Author: Karl Emil Franzos

Language: English

Published: 1883

The Shylock of Barnow
Chane
Two Saviours of The People
"The Child of Atonement"
Esterka Regina
"Baron Schmule"
The Picture of Christ
Nameless Graves

Language: English

Published: 1921

Including Christmas stories, Greek legends, and Hallowe'en and Mystery stories.

Author: Aesop

Language: English

Published: 1883