Short Story Books
Irish Fairy Tales
James StephensIrish Fairy Tales is a retelling of ten Irish folktales by the Irish author James Stephens. The English illustrator Arthur Rackham provided interior artwork, including numerous black and white illustr..
Hunter Quatermain's Story
H. Rider HaggardHunter Quatermain's Story is a short story written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, an English writer of adventure fiction set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of t..
The Magic World
Edith NesbitThe Magic World is an influential collection of twelve short stories by E. Nesbit. It was first published in book form in 1912 by Macmillan and Co. Ltd., with illustrations by H. R. Millar and Gerald ..
Short Science Fiction Collection 027
Various AuthorsScience Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contempora..
Ilman menestyksettä
Wilkie CollinsIlman menestyksettä is a Finnish work co-authored by Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens...
Seven Men
Sir Max BeerbohmIn order to liven up the literary history of Great Britain in the 1890s (as if Oscar Wilde, Stevenson, Kipling, Hardy, etc., were not lively enough) Max Beerbohm wrote short biographies of six imagina..
The Arabian Nights Entertainments — Volume 01
Jonathan ScottThe main frame story concerns a king and his new bride. The king, Shahryar, upon discovering his ex-wife's infidelity executes her and then declares all women to be unfaithful. He begins to marry a su..
The Green Flag, and Other Stories of War and Sport
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle was deeply affected by the many wars fought during his lifetime. As many other writers, he used the material for short stories, a collection of which is presented here. The stories ..