Outstanding Short Stories

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Invisible Cities

by Italo Calvino

In Kublai Khan's garden, at sunset, the young Marco Polo diverts the aged emperor from his obsession with the impending end of his empire with …
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The Tales of Hoffmann

by Ernst Theodor Hoffman

A lawyer by day and a creator of a world of fantasy by night, Hoffman (1776-1822) lived a Jekyll and Hyde existence. Many of the …
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Anton Chekhov's Short Stories

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The thirty-four stories in this volume span Chekhov s creative career."
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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

by Nikolai Gogol

When Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself "amazed." "Here is real gaiety," he wrote, "honest, unconstrained, without mincing, …
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The enchanted wanderer

 

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Selected Tales and Sketches

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The short stories, reflecting Hawthorne's Puritan background and his use of symbolism and allegory, are presented with biographical notes
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Great Short Works of Herman Melville

by Herman Melville

Billy Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of fiction in history. Here, they are collected along with …
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Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales and Poems

by Edgar Allan Poe

The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes and failures, breakdowns and recoveries, personal gains and hopes …
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The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain

by Mark Twain

For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark …
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Collected Stories of Rudyard Kipling

by Rudyard Kipling

As a young writer living in Lahore during the time of the British Raj, Rudyard Kipling (1865­–1936) was possessed by an enormous subject—India—and his genius …