According to Their Lights Short Story by O. Henry Somewhere in the depths of the big city, where the unquiet…
The Fish Short Story by Anton Chekhov A SUMMER morning. The air is still; there is no sound but the…
The Cook's Wedding Short Story by Anton Chekhov GRISHA, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the…
A Blackjack Bargainer, Short Story by O. Henry; The most disreputable thing in Yancey Goree's law office was Goree himself,…
A Newspaper Story Short Story by O. Henry AT 8 a.m. it lay on Giuseppi's news-stand, still damp from the presses. Giuseppi,…
A Wedding Gift Short Story by Guy de Maupassant For a long time, Jacques Bourdillere had sworn that he would never…
Boule de Suif Short Story by Guy de Maupassant For several days in succession fragments of a defeated army had passed…
Benjamin Franklin Short Story by Nathaniel Hawthorne "He is Born 1706 and Died 1790." In the year 1716, or about that…
I and My Chimney Short Story by Herman Melville I and my chimney, two grey-headed old smokers, reside in the…
Bartleby, the Scrivener Short Story by Herman Melville "A Story of Wall-street." I AM a rather elderly man. The nature of…