Short Fiction
A Hunger Artist
In the 19th and early 20th century there was a category of performers known as hunger a..
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A Madman's Diary
“A Madman’s Diary” is a short story by Lu Xun first published in 1918. Written in vernacular Chine..
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A Modest Proposal
A Modest Proposal is a satiric essay written by Jonathan Swift in 1729 and published anonymousl..
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A Tedious Story (From An Old Man's Journal)
Influenced by the death of his brother Nicolay from tuberculosis, Chekhov’s novel..
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An Anonymous Story
An Anonymous Story is a novella published in 1893 that has also been translated as The Story of a No..
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is the best-known short story by Ambrose Bierce. The story was ..
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Arsène Lupin
Arsène Lupin was the third volume in the series of stories and novels featuring the legendary French..
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Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes
Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes is an exhilarating battle of wits between the master thief (and ..
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Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
In an October 1939 radio broadcast Winston Churchill described his difficulty in understanding the a..
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Boule de Suif
“Boule de Suif” is one of the first short stories by Guy de Maupassant and possibly the most famous...
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Death in Venice
"Death in Venice", first published in 1912, centers around Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful Germa..
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Diary of a Madman
Diary of a Madman (1835) is a farcical short story that ranks with “The Overcoat” and “The Nose” as..
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Dubliners
It has been said that James Joyce never wrote a thing unless it was a masterpiece. Many years since ..
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Flappers and Philosophers
Throughout his career F. Scott Fitzgerald excelled at the short form, the short story. Indeed when h..
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in our time
The collection of stories and sketches that go by the title “in our time” has a convoluted publica..
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In the Penal Colony
“In the Penal Colony” centers on the use of an unusual instrument of punishment invented ..
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Le Horla
Le Horla is a short horror story published in 1887 by Guy de Maupassant. Written in the form of a jo..
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Men Without Women
Ernest Hemingway's "Men Without Women" is a collection of fourteen short stories, first published in..
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My Life: The Story of a Provincial
“My Life: The Story of a Provincial” (1896) is a novella that tells the story of Misail Poloznev, a ..
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Rip Van Winkle
Rip Van Winkle is Dutch-American villager living in the Catskill Mountains in the era before the Rev..
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Rothschild's Fiddle
Yakov Ivanov is an elderly coffin-maker in a small village with a population that doesn’..
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Tales of The Jazz Age
In 1922 the publication of Tales of the Jazz Age confirmed the conventional wisdom of the time that ..
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle is the first collection of short stories fea..
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The Bet and Other Stories
The Bet and Other Stories is a collection of 12 stories and a novella. Eleven were written between..
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