Short Story Books
The Circle of Zero
Stanley G. WeinbaumIf there were a mountain a thousand miles high and every thousand years a bird flew over it, just brushing the peak with the tip of its wing, in the course of inconceivable eons the mountain would be ..
Time Crime
H. Beam PiperTime Crime is a science fiction short story written by H. Beam Piper, an American science fiction author. He wrote many short stories and several novels. He is best known for his extensive Terro-Human..
Winter Evening Tales
Amelia E. BarrIn these "Winter Evening Tales," Mrs. Barr has spread before her readers a feast that will afford the rarest enjoyment for many a leisure hour. There are few writers of the present day whose genius ha..
Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories
Alice C. HeganMiss Mink's Soldier And Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by Alice Hegan Rice, who is also the author of "Mrs. Wiggs Of The Cabbage Patch," "Mr. Opp," "Calvary Alley," Etc. T..
The Three Golden Apples
Nathaniel HawthorneThe Three Golden Apples is part of the Nathaniel Hawthorne's series of A WONDER-BOOK FOR GIRLS AND BOYS. A Yankee student stays at a country house called Tanglewood during a golden New Engla..
A Modern Cinderella
Amanda M. DouglasA Modern Cinderella is a juvenile fiction story written by Amanda Minnie Douglas, an American writer of adult and juvenile fiction. She was probably best remembered by young readers of her day fo..
Opera Stories from Wagner
Florence AkinEleven stories of eleven operas by Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold. Die Walküre. Siegfried. Götterdämmerung. Parsifal. Lohengrin. Tannhäuser. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Rienzi. Die Fliegende H..
The Enchanted Typewriter
John Kendrick BangsThe Enchanted Typewriter is a collection of short stories by the American author John Kendrick Bangs, written in 1899 in the style that has become known as Bangsian fantasy. Bangs attributes many of t..