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world's best short stories, folktales, narrative poems, and more.
Includes complete summaries, helpful notes, and discussion questions.

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--STORIES COMPLETED--


--STORIES COMING SOON, POSTED PLAIN, OR IN PROGRESS--

    • (coming soon): Nothing has been posted yet.
    • (plain) The story has been posted without editing, formatting, or annotations.
    • (in progress) Some editing, formatting, or annotating has been done.
    • See the list above for Completed stories, and the one below for those in the planning stage.


--STORIES PLANNED FOR THE FUTURE--

  • 1,001 Nights: "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp"; "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves"; "The Fisherman and the Jinni"; "The Man who Never Laughed During the Rest of His Days"; "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor"
  • Andersen, Hans Christian: "The Emperor's New Clothes"; "The Little Match Girl"; "The Little Mermaid"; "The Princess and the Pea"; "The Ugly Duckling"
  • Anonymous: "Beowulf"; "Cuchulain"; "Robin Hood"; "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
  • Bierce, Ambrose: "A Horseman in the Sky"; "The Man and the Snake"
  • Browning, Robert: "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"; "The Pied Piper"
  • Cather, Willa: "The Enchanted Bluff"; "Paul's Case"
  • Chase, J. Smeaton: "The Bells of San Gabriel"; "The Buried Treasure of Simi"
  • Chaucer, Geoffrey: "The Knight's Tale"; "The Pardoner's Tale"
  • Chekhov, Anton: "The Lottery Ticket"
  • Chopin, Kate: "Désirée's Baby"; "A Pair of Silk Stockings"; "The Storm"; "The Story of an Hour"
  • Crane, Stephen: "The Blue Hotel"; "The Open Boat"
  • Doyle, Arthur Conan: "The Empty House"; "The Musgrave Ritual"; "The Red-Headed League"; "A Scandal in Bohemia"
  • Faulkner, William: "A Rose for Emily"
  • Fitzgerald, F. Scott: "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"; "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
  • Gilman, Charlotte Perkins: "The Yellow Wallpaper"
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales: "The Bremen Town Musicians"; "Cinderella"; "The Elves and the Shoemaker"; "Hansel and Gretel"; "Iron Hans"; "Little Red Riding Hood"; "Little Snow-White"; "The Three Snake-Leaves"
  • Harte, Bret: "The Idyl of Red Gulch"; "The Luck of Roaring Camp"; "Tennessee's Partner"
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel: "The Great Stone Face"; "My Kinsman, Major Molineux"; "Rappaccini's Daughter"
  • Hearne, Lafcadio: "Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi"; "Mujina"; "Yuki-Onna"
  • Hemingway, Ernest: "Cat in the Rain"; "Hills Like White Elephants"; "Indian Camp"; "The Killers"; "My Old Man"
  • Henry, O.: "The Cactus"; "The Cop and the Anthem"; "The Gift of the Magi"; "The Green Door"; "The Last Leaf"
  • Irving, Washington: "The Devil and Tom Walker"; "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
  • Jacobs, W. W.: "The Monkey's Paw"
  • Jewett, Sarah Orne: "A White Heron"
  • Joyce, James: "Araby"; "The Dead"
  • Kafka, Franz: "A Country Doctor"; "A Hunger Artist"; "In the Penal Colony"; "Metamorphosis"
  • Kipling, Rudyard: "Kaa's Hunting"; "Miracle of Purun Bhagat"; "Mowgli's Brothers"; "The Phantom 'Rickshaw"; "Tiger! Tiger!"
  • Lawrence, D. H.: "The Rocking Horse Winner"
  • Mabinogion, The: "Culhwch and Olwen"; "Lludd and Llevelys"; "Pwyll Prince of Dyved"; "Taliesin"
  • Maupassant, Guy de: "Boule de Suif"
  • Melville, Herman: "Bartleby the Scrivener"
  • Ozaki, Yei Theodora: "The Adventures of Kintaro, the Golden Boy"; "The Bamboo-Cutter and the Moon-Child"; "The Story of Urashima Taro, the Fisher Lad"; "The Tongue-Cut Sparrow"
  • Poe, Edgar Allan: "The Masque of the Red Death"; "The Tell-Tale Heart"
  • Saki: "The Open Window"; "The Interlopers"
  • Stockton, Frank R.: "The Lady or the Tiger?"; "The Griffin and the Minor Canon"
  • Tolstoy, Leo: "How Much Land Does a Man Need?"; "The Three Hermits"; "Ivan the Fool"
  • Twain, Mark: "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It"
  • Wilde, Oscar: "The Happy Prince"; "The Nightingale and the Rose"
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