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…
Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Short Story by Benjamin Franklin Possibly there never has lived a man who has excited…
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…
Hop-Frog Short Story by Edgar Allan Poe I NEVER knew anyone so keenly alive to a joke as the king was.…
Berenice Short Story by Edgar Allan Poe MISERY is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon…
A Descent Into the Maelstrom Short Story by Edgar Allan Poe WE had now reached the summit of the loftiest…
The Cask of Amontillado Short Story by Edgar Allan Poe THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best…