Classic Short Stories

Classic Short Stories

Virginia Woolf – The Watering Place

Like all seaside towns it was pervaded by the smell of fish. The toy shops were full of shells, varnished, hard yet fragile. Even...

H.P. Lovecraft – The Outsider

  That night the Baron dreamt of many a woe; And all his warrior-guests, with shade and form Of witch, and demon, and large coffin-worm, Were long be-nightmared. —Keats.   Unhappy...

Seumas O’Kelly – Billy the Clown

It came to pass that one day The Golden Barque was transformed into a temporary work-boat. The Boss. Hike, Calcutta, and the pock-marked man...

Oscar Wilde – The Nightingale and the Rose

'She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,' cried the young Student; 'but in all my garden there...

Francis Scott Fitzgerald – Financing Finnegan

  Finnegan and I have the same literary agent to sell our writings for us--but though I'd often been in Mr. Cannon's office just before...

Lord Dunsany – The Field

When one has seen Spring's blossom fall in London, and Summer appear and ripen and decay, as it does early in cities, and one...

Mary Shelley – The Mortal Immortal

JULY 16, 1833. --This is a memorable anniversary for me; on it I complete my three hundred and twenty-third year! The Wandering Jew?--certainly not....

Stephen Crane – The Upturned Face

I "What will we do now?" said the adjutant, troubled and excited. "Bury him," said Timothy Lean. The two officers looked down close to their toes where...

Dylan Thomas – Should Lanterns Shine

Should lanterns shine, the holy face, Caught in an octagon of unaccustomed light, Would wither up, and any boy of love Look twice before he fell from...

Edward Frederic Benson – Outside the Door

  The rest of the small party staying with my friend Geoffrey Aldwych in the charming old house which he had lately bought at a...

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