Short stories

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving · 1820

⏱ 13 min read

The Minister's Black Veil

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1832

⏱ 10 min read

Young Goodman Brown

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1835

⏱ 9 min read

Young Goodman Brown

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1835

⏱ 4 min read

The Nose

Nikolai Gogol · 1836

⏱ 10 min read

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1837

⏱ 8 min read

Ligeia

Edgar Allan Poe · 1838

⏱ 10 min read

Ligeia

Edgar Allan Poe · 1838

⏱ 3 min read

The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe · 1839

⏱ 11 min read

The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe · 1839

⏱ 4 min read

The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe · 1839

⏱ 3 min read

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Edgar Allan Poe · 1841

⏱ 12 min read

The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe · 1842

⏱ 7 min read

The Overcoat

Nikolai Gogol · 1842

⏱ 11 min read

The Pit and the Pendulum

Edgar Allan Poe · 1842

⏱ 9 min read

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens · 1843

⏱ 13 min read

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens · 1843

⏱ 5 min read

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens · 1843

⏱ 5 min read

The Birthmark

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1843

⏱ 10 min read

The Birthmark

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1843

⏱ 3 min read

The Black Cat

Edgar Allan Poe · 1843

⏱ 9 min read

The Gold-Bug

Edgar Allan Poe · 1843

⏱ 13 min read

The Tell-Tale Heart

Edgar Allan Poe · 1843

⏱ 7 min read

Rappaccini's Daughter

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1844

⏱ 11 min read

The Cask of Amontillado

Edgar Allan Poe · 1846

⏱ 8 min read

White Nights

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1848

⏱ 4 min read

Hop-Frog

Edgar Allan Poe · 1849

⏱ 8 min read

Bartleby the Scrivener

Herman Melville · 1853

⏱ 4 min read

Bartleby, the Scrivener

Herman Melville · 1853

⏱ 13 min read

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Mark Twain · 1865

⏱ 7 min read

God Sees the Truth, But Waits

Leo Tolstoy · 1872

⏱ 4 min read

The Lady, or the Tiger?

Frank Stockton · 1882

⏱ 7 min read

The Piece of String

Guy de Maupassant · 1883

⏱ 9 min read

The Body Snatcher

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1884

⏱ 10 min read

The Necklace

Guy de Maupassant · 1884

⏱ 9 min read

The Necklace

Guy de Maupassant · 1884

⏱ 5 min read

Markheim

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1885

⏱ 11 min read

A White Heron

Sarah Orne Jewett · 1886

⏱ 10 min read

How Much Land Does a Man Need?

Leo Tolstoy · 1886

⏱ 9 min read

Misery

Anton Chekhov · 1886

⏱ 8 min read

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Leo Tolstoy · 1886

⏱ 13 min read

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Leo Tolstoy · 1886

⏱ 3 min read

Chickamauga

Ambrose Bierce · 1889

⏱ 9 min read

The Bet

Anton Chekhov · 1889

⏱ 10 min read

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Ambrose Bierce · 1890

⏱ 9 min read

The Boarded Window

Ambrose Bierce · 1891

⏱ 8 min read

The Bottle Imp

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1891

⏱ 11 min read

Christmas Every Day

William Dean Howells · 1892

⏱ 3 min read

Christmas Every Day

William Dean Howells · 1892

⏱ 3 min read

The Real Thing

Henry James · 1892

⏱ 4 min read

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1892

⏱ 10 min read

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1892

⏱ 4 min read

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1892

⏱ 4 min read

Desiree's Baby

Kate Chopin · 1893

⏱ 8 min read

A Respectable Woman

Kate Chopin · 1894

⏱ 8 min read

A Respectable Woman

Kate Chopin · 1894

⏱ 4 min read

Regret

Kate Chopin · 1894

⏱ 7 min read

The Story of an Hour

Kate Chopin · 1894

⏱ 8 min read

The Story of an Hour

Kate Chopin · 1894

⏱ 2 min read

A Pair of Silk Stockings

Kate Chopin · 1897

⏱ 9 min read

An Outpost of Progress

Joseph Conrad · 1897

⏱ 12 min read

The Open Boat

Stephen Crane · 1897

⏱ 12 min read

The Open Boat

Stephen Crane · 1897

⏱ 5 min read

The Open Boat

Stephen Crane · 1897

⏱ 5 min read

Gooseberries

Anton Chekhov · 1898

⏱ 9 min read

The Blue Hotel

Stephen Crane · 1898

⏱ 11 min read

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky

Stephen Crane · 1898

⏱ 9 min read

The Storm

Kate Chopin · 1898

⏱ 3 min read

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad · 1899

⏱ 14 min read

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad · 1899

⏱ 6 min read

The Darling

Anton Chekhov · 1899

⏱ 9 min read

The Lady with the Dog

Anton Chekhov · 1899

⏱ 11 min read

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Mark Twain · 1899

⏱ 12 min read

The Law of Life

Jack London · 1901

⏱ 8 min read

The Monkey's Paw

W.W. Jacobs · 1902

⏱ 9 min read

A Retrieved Reformation

O. Henry · 1903

⏱ 9 min read

The Cop and the Anthem

O. Henry · 1904

⏱ 8 min read

Editha

William Dean Howells · 1905

⏱ 10 min read

Editha

William Dean Howells · 1905

⏱ 3 min read

Paul's Case

Willa Cather · 1905

⏱ 11 min read

Paul's Case

Willa Cather · 1905

⏱ 4 min read

The Gift of the Magi

O. Henry · 1905

⏱ 7 min read

The Last Leaf

O. Henry · 1907

⏱ 8 min read

The Ransom of Red Chief

O. Henry · 1907

⏱ 9 min read

To Build a Fire

Jack London · 1908

⏱ 11 min read

Sredni Vashtar

Saki · 1910

⏱ 8 min read

Odour of Chrysanthemums

D. H. Lawrence · 1911

⏱ 12 min read

The Odour of Chrysanthemums

D. H. Lawrence · 1911

⏱ 2 min read

The Open Window

Saki · 1911

⏱ 7 min read

Araby

James Joyce · 1914

⏱ 9 min read

Araby

James Joyce · 1914

⏱ 3 min read

Eveline

James Joyce · 1914

⏱ 8 min read

The Dead

James Joyce · 1914

⏱ 14 min read

The Dead

James Joyce · 1914

⏱ 3 min read

The Open Window

Saki · 1914

⏱ 2 min read

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka · 1915

⏱ 14 min read

A Jury of Her Peers

Susan Glaspell · 1917

⏱ 11 min read

A Jury of Her Peers

Susan Glaspell · 1917

⏱ 5 min read

A Country Doctor

Franz Kafka · 1919

⏱ 7 min read

A Country Doctor

Franz Kafka · 1919

⏱ 4 min read

The Interlopers

Saki · 1919

⏱ 7 min read

Miss Brill

Katherine Mansfield · 1920

⏱ 7 min read

The Doll's House

Katherine Mansfield · 1922

⏱ 8 min read

The Garden Party

Katherine Mansfield · 1922

⏱ 11 min read

The Horse Dealer's Daughter

D. H. Lawrence · 1922

⏱ 5 min read

The Horse Dealer's Daughter

D. H. Lawrence · 1922

⏱ 5 min read

The Most Dangerous Game

Richard Connell · 1924

⏱ 11 min read

A Cat in the Rain

Ernest Hemingway · 1925

⏱ 2 min read

A Cat in the Rain

Ernest Hemingway · 1925

⏱ 2 min read

Big Two-Hearted River

Ernest Hemingway · 1925

⏱ 11 min read

Cat in the Rain

Ernest Hemingway · 1925

⏱ 7 min read

Soldier's Home

Ernest Hemingway · 1925

⏱ 9 min read

Soldier's Home

Ernest Hemingway · 1925

⏱ 3 min read

My First Goose

Isaac Babel · 1926

⏱ 7 min read

Sweat

Zora Neale Hurston · 1926

⏱ 9 min read

The Rich Boy

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1926

⏱ 14 min read

The Rich Boy

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1926

⏱ 6 min read

The Rocking-Horse Winner

D. H. Lawrence · 1926

⏱ 11 min read

Hills Like White Elephants

Ernest Hemingway · 1927

⏱ 7 min read

Hills Like White Elephants

Ernest Hemingway · 1927

⏱ 3 min read

In Another Country

Ernest Hemingway · 1927

⏱ 9 min read

The Killers

Ernest Hemingway · 1927

⏱ 8 min read

A Rose for Emily

William Faulkner · 1930

⏱ 9 min read

Babylon Revisited

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1931

⏱ 5 min read

Babylon Revisited

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1931

⏱ 5 min read

Spotted Horses

William Faulkner · 1931

⏱ 2 min read

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

Ernest Hemingway · 1936

⏱ 3 min read

Barn Burning

William Faulkner · 1939

⏱ 12 min read

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

James Thurber · 1939

⏱ 8 min read

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

James Thurber · 1939

⏱ 2 min read

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

James Thurber · 1939

⏱ 2 min read

Why I Live at the P.O.

Eudora Welty · 1941

⏱ 10 min read

Why I Live at the P.O.

Eudora Welty · 1941

⏱ 2 min read

The Catbird Seat

James Thurber · 1942

⏱ 9 min read

The Catbird Seat

James Thurber · 1942

⏱ 6 min read

The Lottery

Shirley Jackson · 1948

⏱ 10 min read

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

Tadeusz Borowski · 1948

⏱ 12 min read

The Veldt

Ray Bradbury · 1950

⏱ 9 min read

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

Flannery O'Connor · 1953

⏱ 11 min read

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

Flannery O'Connor · 1953

⏱ 2 min read

The Country Husband

John Cheever · 1954

⏱ 6 min read

The River

Flannery O'Connor · 1955

⏱ 2 min read

The River

Flannery O'Connor · 1955

⏱ 2 min read

Sonny's Blues

James Baldwin · 1957

⏱ 12 min read

Sonny's Blues

James Baldwin · 1957

⏱ 7 min read

Sonny's Blues

James Baldwin · 1957

⏱ 7 min read

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

Tadeusz Borowski · 1959

⏱ 5 min read

The Scarlet Ibis

James Hurst · 1960

⏱ 10 min read

A&P

John Updike · 1961

⏱ 9 min read

Harrison Bergeron

Kurt Vonnegut · 1961

⏱ 8 min read

The Sky Is Gray

Ernest J. Gaines · 1963

⏱ 11 min read

Revelation

Flannery O'Connor · 1964

⏱ 4 min read

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

Joyce Carol Oates · 1966

⏱ 11 min read

A Bird in the House

Margaret Laurence · 1970

⏱ 5 min read

A Bird in the House

Margaret Laurence · 1970

⏱ 4 min read

A Bird in the House

Margaret Laurence · 1970

⏱ 4 min read

Everyday Use

Alice Walker · 1973

⏱ 9 min read

The Collector of Treasures

Bessie Head · 1977

⏱ 4 min read

Shiloh

Bobbie Ann Mason · 1980

⏱ 7 min read

The Shawl

Cynthia Ozick · 1980

⏱ 8 min read

Hunters in the Snow

Tobias Wolff · 1981

⏱ 11 min read

Hunters in the Snow

Tobias Wolff · 1981

⏱ 3 min read

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Raymond Carver · 1981

⏱ 3 min read

Cathedral

Raymond Carver · 1983

⏱ 11 min read

Happy Endings

Margaret Atwood · 1983

⏱ 7 min read

Happy Endings

Margaret Atwood · 1983

⏱ 3 min read

The Age of Lead

Margaret Atwood · 1991

⏱ 5 min read

A & P

John Updike

⏱ 4 min read

A Clean Well-Lighted Place

Ernest Hemingway

⏱ 3 min read

A Rose for Emily

William Faulkner

⏱ 3 min read

A Wagner Matinee

Willa Cather

⏱ 2 min read

A Worn Path

Eudora Welty

⏱ 2 min read

Adrian

Saki

⏱ 2 min read

Alicia Who Sees Mice

Sandra Cisneros

⏱ 2 min read

An Analysis of Sherwood Anderson 'Hands' Hands by Sherwood Anderson Reviewed

Sherwood Anderson

⏱ 3 min read

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Ambrose Bierce

⏱ 5 min read

Babel

⏱ 2 min read

Barn Burning

William Faulkner

⏱ 2 min read

Bierce

⏱ 1 min read

Boule De Suif

Guy de Maupassant

⏱ 2 min read

Carvergazebo

⏱ 3 min read

Crane

⏱ 2 min read

Crazy Sunday

F. Scott Fitzgerald

⏱ 3 min read

Daisy Miller

Henry James

⏱ 5 min read

Death of a Traveling Salesman

Eudora Welty

⏱ 2 min read

Death of a Traveling Salesman

Eudora Welty

⏱ 2 min read

Di Grasso

Isaac Babel

⏱ 3 min read

Drawing Names

Bobbie Ann Mason

⏱ 4 min read

Early 20th Century American Stories

⏱ 5 min read

Emilie Plead Choose One Egg

Paule Barton

⏱ 4 min read

Existentialism in Literature

⏱ 4 min read

Gazebo

Raymond Carver

⏱ 3 min read

Good Country People

Flannery O'Connor

⏱ 2 min read

Greenleaf

Flannery O'Connor

⏱ 5 min read

Guy De Maupassant (1850-1893) Commentary

⏱ 2 min read

Kate Chopin's the Awakening Commentary

Kate Chopin

⏱ 7 min read

Knight's Tale

Geoffrey Chaucer

⏱ 4 min read

Late 20th Century American Stories

⏱ 5 min read

Like a Bad Dream

Heinrich Böll

⏱ 4 min read

Looking for a Rain God

Bessie Head

⏱ 3 min read

Mademoiselle Fifi

Guy de Maupassant

⏱ 2 min read

Margaret Laurence’s a Bird in the House

⏱ 4 min read

Mother by Sherwood Anderson Reviewed

Sherwood Anderson

⏱ 5 min read

Mrs. Packletide's Tiger

Saki

⏱ 2 min read

Murders on the Rue Morgue

Edgar Allan Poe

⏱ 4 min read

My First Goose

Isaac Babel

⏱ 7 min read

Nineteenth Century American Stories

⏱ 4 min read

Nineteenth Century British Stories

⏱ 1 min read

Notes from the Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky

⏱ 5 min read

Other Cultures Other Times

⏱ 5 min read

Pardoner's Tale

Geoffrey Chaucer

⏱ 5 min read

Prioress

Geoffrey Chaucer

⏱ 4 min read

Rappaccini's Daughter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

⏱ 2 min read

Redemption

John Gardner

⏱ 3 min read

Saki (H.H. Munro) (1870-1916) Commentary

⏱ 3 min read

Snow

Ann Beattie

⏱ 3 min read

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

Arthur Conan Doyle

⏱ 5 min read

The Boarded Window

Ambrose Bierce

⏱ 3 min read

The Boarding House

James Joyce

⏱ 2 min read

The Burning House

Ann Beattie

⏱ 3 min read

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

⏱ 2 min read

The Cask of Amontillado

Edgar Allan Poe

⏱ 5 min read

The Chicken

Clarice Lispector

⏱ 2 min read

The Colour Out of Space

H. P. Lovecraft

⏱ 5 min read

The Cricket on the Hearth

Charles Dickens

⏱ 3 min read

The Fifth Story

Clarice Lispector

⏱ 2 min read

The Garden Lodge

Willa Cather

⏱ 3 min read

The Ghostly Rental

Henry James

⏱ 4 min read

The Guest

Albert Camus

⏱ 5 min read

The Hollow Nut

Colette

⏱ 2 min read

The House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros

⏱ 2 min read

The Hunter Gracchus

Franz Kafka

⏱ 2 min read

The Laugher

Heinrich Böll

⏱ 2 min read

The Men in the Storm

Stephen Crane

⏱ 2 min read

The Merchant

Geoffrey Chaucer

⏱ 3 min read

The Miller

Geoffrey Chaucer

⏱ 6 min read

The Minister

Nathaniel Hawthorne

⏱ 4 min read

The Mystery of the Speckled Band

Arthur Conan Doyle

⏱ 4 min read

The Other Wife

Colette

⏱ 2 min read

The Purloined Letter

Edgar Allan Poe

⏱ 3 min read

The Red- Headed League

Arthur Conan Doyle

⏱ 4 min read

The Secret Sharer

Joseph Conrad

⏱ 8 min read

The Shadow Out of Time

H. P. Lovecraft

⏱ 4 min read

The Shawl

Cynthia Ozick

⏱ 2 min read

The Sky Is Gray

Ernest J. Gaines

⏱ 4 min read

The Swimmer

John Cheever

⏱ 4 min read

The Tell-Tale Heart

Edgar Allan Poe

⏱ 2 min read

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

⏱ 3 min read

The Unicorn in the Garden

James Thurber

⏱ 2 min read

The Untold Lie

Sherwood Anderson

⏱ 3 min read

The Wall

Jean Paul Sartre

⏱ 2 min read

The Wife of Bath

Geoffrey Chaucer

⏱ 2 min read

This Morning, This Evening, So Soon

James Baldwin

⏱ 5 min read

Twentieth Century English Irish Canadian Stories

⏱ 1 min read

Wife-Wooing

John Updike

⏱ 4 min read

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) Commentary

⏱ 2 min read

William Wilson

Edgar Allan Poe

⏱ 2 min read

Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson

⏱ 2 min read