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Miguel Cervantes (1547-1616)
The Spanish-English Lady
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Governor Manco and the Soldier
The Stout Gentleman
The Adventure of the German Student
The Specter Bridegroom
Rip Van Winkle
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Widow and Her Son
The Devil and Tom Walker
Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867)
Fanny McDermot
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
The Lake Gun
John Polidori (1795-1821)
The Vampyre
Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
The Mortal Immortal
Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
La Grande Breteche
The Red Inn
The Atheist's Mass
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)
Zodmirsky's Duel
Solange: Dr. Ledru’s Story of the Reign of Terror
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
A Fight with a Cannon
Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)
Slavery's Pleasant Homes
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Young Goodman Brown
The Birth-mark
Rappaccinis Daughter
The Ministers Black Veil
The May-Pole of Merry Mount
The Snow-Image
Lady Eleanore's Mantle
Alice Doan's Appeal
Ethan Brand
Wakefield
The Gentle Boy
Endicott and the Red Cross
Feathertop
The Gray Champion
The Great Carbuncle
The Great Stone Face
The Ambitious Guest
The Wives of the Dead
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)
The Overcoat
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Gold-Bug
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Cask of Amontillado
Ligeia
The Black Cat
MS. Found in a Bottle
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Masque of the Red Death
The Purloined Letter
William Wilson
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Imp of the Perverse
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865)
The Manchester Marriage
Half-Brothers
The Old Nurse's Story
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
The Ghost in the Mill
Miss Asphyxia
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
The Schoolboy's Story
A Christmas Carol
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873)
Dickon the Devil
The Murdered Cousin
Squire Toby's Will
Laura Silver Bell
An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1815-1852)
The Angel Over the Right Shoulder
Calico
Night-Watchers
Thomas Bangs Thorpe (1815-1878)
The Big Bear of Arkansas
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)
Yermolai and the Miller's Wife
George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans] (1819-1880)
Brother Jacob
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
The Lightning-Rod Man
The Piazza
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Billy Budd, Foretopman
I and My Chimney
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
The Thief
Notes From Underground
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
A Simple Heart
Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (1823-1902)
Lemorne Versus Huell
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)
A Terribly Strange Bed
Henry Clay Lewis (1825-1850)
The Indefatigable Bear-Hunter
Love in a Garden
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
The Two Offers
Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892)
Miss Lucinda
Dely's Cow
About Dolly
Grit
Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862)
What Was It?
My Wife's Tempter
The Diamond Lens
The Golden Ingot
The Wondersmith
The Child Who Loved A Grave
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
The Death of Ivan Ilych
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916)
Krambambuli
Amelia B. Edwards (1831-1892)
The Phantom Coach
The Four-Fifteen Express
Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)
Life in the Iron-Mills
The Wife's Story
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Transcendental Wild Oats
How I Went Out to Service
The Blue and the Gray
A Modern Cinderella: Or, The Little Old Shoe
Frank Stockton (1834-1902)
The Lady or the Tiger
The Griffin and the Minor Canon
The Widow's Cruise
My Unwilling Neighbor
A Piece of Red Calico
Love Before Breakfast
Captain Eli's Best Ear
The Christmas Wreck
Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)
Circumstance
Moonstone Mass
In a Cellar
The Mad Lady
The Nemesis of Motherhood
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
The Story of the Old Ram
The Californian's Tale
The Story of the Bad Boy Who Didn't Come to Grief
The Mysterious Stranger
The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)
Marjorie Daw
Quite So
Bret Harte (1836-1902)
The Iliad of Sandy Bar
The Luck of Roaring Camp
Tennessees Partner
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
The Idyll of Red Gulch
William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
Editha
Villiers de l’Isle-Adam (1838-1889)
The Torture of Hope
Vera
Olympe and Henrietta
The Desire to be a Man
Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897)
The Last Lesson
Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894)
Peter, the Parson
Felipa
Miss Grief
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Squire Petrick's Lady
An Imaginative Woman
The Grave by the Handpost
Old Mrs Chundle
Good Choice!!!!!
Giovanni Verga (1840-1922)
Cavalleria Rusticana
The Saint Joseph's Ass
Emile Zola (1840-1902)
The Death of Olivier Becaille
Rentafoil
Big Michu
W. H. Hudson (1841-1922)
Story of a Piebald Horse
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
The Damned Thing
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
One of the Missing
One Summer Night
A Horseman in the Sky
What I Saw of Shiloh
George Thurston
Killed at Resaca
Chickamauga
Henry James (1843-1916)
The Sweetheart Of M. Briseux
Daisy Miller: A Study
The Beast in the Jungle
The Great Good Place
The Story in it
The Real Thing
Anatole France (1844-1924) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1921
The Procurator of Judea
The Mass of Shadows
George Washington Cable (1844-1925)
Belles Demoiselles Plantation
Café des Exilés
"Posson Jone'"
Jean-ah Poquelin
'Tite Poulette
'Sieur George
Madame Délicieuse
Bram Stoker (1847-1912)
Dracula's Guest
The Secret of the Growing Gold
Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938)
Maverick
Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)
Brer Rabbit and the Tar-Baby
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
A White Heron
Miss Tempy's Watchers
The Hiltons' Holiday
The Foreigner
The Flight of Betsey Lane
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Markheim
The Bottle Imp
The Body-Snatcher
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
The Necklace
The Jewels of M. Lantin
The Trip of the Horla
The Grave
Charles Egbert Craddock [Mary Noailles Murfree] 1850-1922
The Dancin' Party at Harrison's Cove
Ella D'Arcy (1851-1939)
A Marriage
The Death Mask
Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
At The 'Cadian Ball
The Storm [A Sequel to "At the 'Cadian Ball"]
Regret
Good Choice!!!!!
Ozème's Holiday
At Chênière Caminada
The Story of an Hour
A Respectable Woman
A Night in Acadie
Désirée's Baby
Ripe Figs
Madame Célestin's Divorce
Grace King (1852-1932)
The Little Convent Girl
La Grande Demoiselle
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)
The Revolt of "Mother"
A New England Nun
A Church Mouse
Old Woman Magoun
The Lost Ghost
A Mistaken Charity
One Good Time
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
The Canterville Ghost
Harold Frederic (1856-1898)
The Eve of the Fourth
George Gissing (1857-1903)
The Foolish Virgin
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
The Lagoon
The Inn of the Two Witches—A Find
Youth
The Secret Sharer
Heart of Darkness
Charles A. Eastman (1858-1939)
The Madness of Bald Eagle
Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932)
The Sheriff's Children
The Goophered Grapevine
Po' Sandy
Dave's Neckliss
The Wife of His Youth
George Egerton [Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright] (1859-1945)
Wedlock
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
A Scandal in Bohemia
The Red-Headed League
A Case of Identity
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
The Final Problem
The Adventure of the Empty House
The Parasite
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
The Darling
Misery
Good Choice!!!!!
The Lady with the Dog
About Love
Anna on the Neck
Gooseberries
The Grasshopper
Gusev
The Huntsman
The Kiss
The Teacher of Literature
The Man in a Case
The Party
Peasants
Oh! the Public
In the Ravine
Sleepy
Small Fry
The Student
Vanka
Ward No. 6
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
Under the Lion's Paw
The Return of a Private
Up the Coulee
A Branch Road
Among the Corn Rows
The Creamery Man
Uncle Ethan Ripley
A "Good Fellow's" Wife
A Day's Pleasure
God's Ravens
Mrs. Ripley's Trip
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Turned
M. R. James (1862-1936)
"Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad"
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
Roman Fever
Souls Belated
The Other Two
O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (1862-1910)
The Whirligig of Life
The Cop and the Anthem
The Gift of the Magi
A Municipal Report
The Caballero's Way
Buried Treasure
The Ransom of Red Chief
Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944)
Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper
W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943)
The Money-Box
Jerry Bundler
The Changeling
Angels' Visits
In the Family
Low Water
A Circular Tour
The Rival Beauties
The Monkey's Paw
Andrew Barton ‘Banjo' Paterson (1864-1941)
Three Elephant Power
His Masterpiece
White-when-he's-wanted
Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916)
How Hefty Burke Got Even
The Nature Faker
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1907
Without Benefit of Clergy
The Mark of the Beast
The Phantom 'Rickshaw
'They'
The Man Who Would Be King
The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
The Jilting of Jane
The Magic Shop
The Country of the Blind
The Door in the Wall
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1934
War
Good Choice!!!!!
Henry Lawson (1867-1922)
The Drover's Wife
The Golden Graveyard
The Hairy Man
The Shanty-Keeper’s Wife
In a Wet Season
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)
Twenty-Six Men and a Girl
Saki [Hector H. Munro] (1870-1916)
The Lumber-Room
Gabriel-Ernest
Tobermory
The Open Window
The Cobweb
The Story-Teller
Henry Handel Richardson [Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson] (1870-1946)
Two Hanged Women
Ivan Bunin (1870-1953) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1933
The Gentleman from San Francisco
Frank Norris (1870-1902)
Fantaisie Printaniere
The Ship That Saw a Ghost
The Dual Personality of Slick Dick Nickerson
Two Hearts That Beat As One
A Deal in Wheat
A Case for Lombroso
Good Choice!!!!!
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
An Experiment in Misery
The Open Boat
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
The Blue Hotel
The Little Regiment
The Price of the Harness
A Detail
A Mystery of Heroism
A Gray Sleeve
The Pace Of Youth
Three Miraculous Soldiers
One Dash-Horses
The Mesmeric Mountain
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
Old Rogaum and His Theresa
Married
The Lost Phoebe
Ida Hauchawout
Good Choice!!!!!
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
The Lynching of Jube Benson
Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)
The Shadowy Third
The Past
Willa Cather (1873-1947)
Jack-a-Boy
The Burgler's Christmas
Paul's Case
On the Divide
Lou, the Prophet
The Enchanted Bluff
The Affair at Grover Station
Neighbour Rosicky
The Bohemian Girl
On the Gull's Road
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
The Blue Cross
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
In a Strange Land
Mackintosh
The Lotus Eater
Rain
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
The Good Anna
Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950)
The Treasure Ship
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1929
Tonio Kroger
The Infant Prodigy
Disorder and Early Sorrow
Death in Venice
Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
Sister Josepha
Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)
A Jury of Her Peers
Jack London (1876-1916)
The Mexican
The Heathen
The Seed of McCoy
South of the Slot
To Build a Fire
The Law of Life
In a Far Country
All Gold Canyon
The White Silence
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
I'm a Fool
Seeds
The Other Woman
Unlighted Lamps
The Door of the Trap
Brothers
War
Motherhood
Senility
The Man in the Brown Coat
The Philosopher
The Egg
I Want to Know Why
The New Englander
Hands
Mother
Adventure
William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918)
The Voice in the Night
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1946
Within and Without
In the Old "Sun"
A.E. Coppard (1878-1957)
Broadsheet Ballad
Good Choice!!!!!
The Higgler
Arabesque: The Mouse
The Hurly-Burly
E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
The Road from Colonus
Mr. and Mrs. Abbey’s Difficulties
Mr. Andrews
The Eternal Moment
The Story of the Siren
James Branch Cabell (1879-1958)
Porcelain Cups
Dorothy Canfield (1879-1958)
A Drop in the Bucket
The Artist
Horacio Quiroga (1879-1937)
The Feather Pillow
Damon Runyon (1880-1946)
The Bloodhounds of Broadway
Blood Pressure
Giovanni Papini (1881-1956)
The Sick Gentleman's Last Visit
P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975)
Uncle Fred Flits By
James Joyce (1882-1941)
Araby
The Sisters
Eveline
A Little Cloud
Counterparts
Clay
The Dead
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Kew Gardens
The Duchess and the Jeweller
Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
The Metamorphosis
A Hunger Artist
Isak Dinesen [Baroness Karen Blixen] (1885-1962)
Dreaming Child
The Ring
The Pearls
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1930
Moths in the Arc Light
Go East, Young Man
Let's Play King
The Hack Driver
The Willow Walk
The Cat of Stars
The Kidnaped Memorial
Things
Land
Speed
A Letter From the Queen
The Ghost Patrol
Young Man Axelbrod
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
The Man Who Loved Islands
Two Bluebirds
Love Among the Haystacks
The Horse Dealer's Daughter
The Thorn in the Flesh
The Shades of Spring
The Christening
Odour of Chrysanthemums
The White Stocking
The Prussian Officer
Daughters of the Vicar
Adolf
Monkey Nuts
Rex
The Rocking-Horse Winner
Ring Lardner (1885-1933)
I Can't Breathe
My Roomy
Alibi Ike
Haircut
Carmen
The Golden Honeymoon
Horseshoes
The Water Cure
François Mauriac (1885-1970) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1952
Thérèse and the Doctor
Edna Ferber (1887-1968)
April 25th, As Usual
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
The Stranger
Miss Brill
The Garden-Party
The Doll's House
The Fly
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
He
The Old Order
Flowering Judas
Theft
Rope
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
Sweat
The Gilded Six-Bits
Story in Harlem Slang
Spunk
Black Death
Nella Larsen (1891-1964)
Sanctuary
Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927)
In a Grove
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
You Were Perfectly Fine
A Telephone Call
Big Blonde
Travelogue
The Last Tea
Good Choice!!!!!
Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
Blood-Burning Moon
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
Nightmare Town
Ruffian's Wife
The Man Who Killed Dan Odams
Night Shots
The Assistant Murderer
Death on Pine Street
The Second-Story Angel
Afraid of a Gun
One Hour
Who Killed Bob Teal?
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
The Gioconda Smile
The Tillotson Banquet
Nuns at Luncheon
Good Choice!!!!!
James Thurber (1894-1961)
The Catbird Seat
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984)
The Sniper
The Inquisition
The Reaping Race
The Challenge
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
The Offshore Pirate
The Jelly-bean
The Baby Party
The Rich Boy
Babylon Revisited
Winter Dreams
A Short Trip Home
An Alcoholic Case
Crazy Sunday
The Rough Crossing
Design in Plaster
Two for a Cent
A Man in the Way
William Faulkner (1897-1962) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1949
A Rose for Emily
Lucas Beauchamp
Barn Burning
That Evening Sun Go Down
Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943)
The Devil and Daniel Webster
By the Waters of Babylon
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
The Man on the Threshold
Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1968
The Jay
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)
The Easter Egg Party
The Demon Lover
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
First Love
"That in Aleppo Once . . ."
Sounds
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1954
The End of Something
My Old Man
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
A Very Short Story
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
Hills Like White Elephants
Big Two-Hearted River: Part I
Big Two-Hearted River: Part II
Cat in the Rain
The Killers
Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)
The Lost Boy
His Father’s Earth
Only the Dead Know Brooklyn
Sean O'Faolain (1900-1991)
Fugue
V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997)
The Saint
Katherine Brush (1902-1952)
Night Club
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Thank You, Ma'm
John Steinbeck (1902-1968) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1962
The Chrysanthemums
Frank O'Connor (1903-1966)
First Confession
The Drunkard
My Oedipus Complex
Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987)
Kneel to the Rising Sun
Yellow Girl
The Strawberry Season
Saturday Afternoon
Graham Greene (1904-1991)
The Destructors
The Hint of an Explanation
I Spy
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1978
The Spinoza of Market Street
The Washwoman
Gimpel the Fool
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1964
The Wall
Dorothy M. Johnson (1905-1984)
A Man Called Horse
R. K. Narayan (1906-2001)
An Astrologer's Day
Louis L’Amour (1908-1988)
Trap of Gold
Eudora Welty (1909-2001)
Why I Live at the P.O.
Petrified Man
A Curtain of Green
The Hitch-Hikers
A Worn Path
Paul Bowles (1910-1999)
The Eye
Good Choice!!!!!
Jack Finney (1911-1995)
Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets
Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1988
The Norwegian Rat
Tillie Olsen (1912-2007)
I Stand Here Ironing
John Cheever (1912-1982)
The Swimmer
Clementina
Albert Camus (1913-1960) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1957
The Guest
Julio Cortazar (1914-1984)
Axolotl
Blowup
The Night Face Up
Octavio Paz (1914-1998) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1990
My Life with the Wave
The Blue Bouquet
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
Battle Royal
Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)
The Magic Barrel
Shirley Jackson (1916-1965)
The Lottery
Charles
One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts
Carson McCullers (1917-1967)
The Sojourner
A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.
The Jockey
A Domestic Dilemma
Es'Kia Mphahlele (b. 1919)
Mrs. Plum
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
The Evitable Conflict
Yuri Markovich Nagibin (1920-1994)
My First and Most Beloved Friend
Good Choice!!!!!
Yoshiko Uchida (1921-1992)
The Bracelet
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007)
Harrison Bergeron
Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951)
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Italo Calvino (1923-1985)
The Adventure of a Nearsighted Man
The Adventure of a Photographer
The Adventure of a Poet
Truman Capote (1924-1984)
A Christmas Memory
Miriam
Abioseh Nicol (1924-1994)
Life Is Sweet at Kumansenu
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Good Country People
The Artificial Nigger
A Circle of Fire
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
Fountains in the Rain
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)
The King of the Elves
Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)
The Lesson
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