Short Stories
The Soft Side
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Henry James
Lauded author Henry James, best known for his seminal and highly influential novella The Turn of the Screw and his highly literate trans-con…
The Rover
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Lawrence Labree and Seba Smith
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
The Black Cat
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Various
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
Harper's Young People
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Various
Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, sho…
Harper's Young People
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Various
Harper's Young People was an illustrated weekly publication for children containing delightful serialized stories, short stories, fiction an…
Springtime
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Various
This is the 31st Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read 20 stories or poems of their choice, fiction or non-fict…
Old French Romances
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William Morris
Old French Romances is a collection of four medieval romances translated by William Morris and published in 1896. The Tale of King Coustans …
Harper's Young People
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Various
Harper's Young People was an illustrated weekly publication for children includes delightful serialized and one-off short stories, tales fro…
The Black Cat
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The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
In Our Town
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William Allen White
Some humorous, some heartwarming, some heartstring-pulling stories from the newspaper office of a small Kansas town, "in that part of t…
By Shore and Sedge
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Bret Harte
By Shore and Sedge is a small volume of three short stories that examine the lives of people living on the coast of California and in the de…
The Black Cat
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Various
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
Kitty's Picnic
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William James McGlothlin
A collection of short stories for boys and girls that spark the imagination and teach life lessons. (summary by Ladeebug)
The Doctor's Red Lamp
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Charles Wells Moulton
A fictional series of short stories from various authors, each containing stories of doctors. The compiled set of stories has various ranges…
Murad the Unlucky
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Maria Edgeworth
A collection of short stories by this famous Irish author who spent her life writing for the advancement of humanity and to alleviate the …
What Christmas Is as We Grow Older
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Charles Dickens
A delightful collection of stories about Christmas and what it is by literary geniuses such as Dickens, Martineau, and Buckley. - Summary b…
Harper's Young People
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Various
Harper's Young People was an illustrated weekly publication for children containing delightful serialized stories, short stories, fiction an…
Christmas Short Works Collection
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Various
As we approach Christmas 2025, we invite you to join us in some heart-warming tales and uplifting stories, nonfiction, and poetry. We wish y…
Free
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Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser's first collection of short fiction, published in 1918. Dreiser was known primarily as a novelist (Sister Carrie, An Americ…