Here is a list of all stories posted to "The Best Stories Ever Told," given in the order in which they were published. The oldest stories are listed first.
The status of each story is given after the author's name.
- (plain) The story has been posted without editing, formatting, or annotations.
- (in progress) Some editing, formatting, or annotating has been done.
- (complete) The story has an introduction, notes, a summary, and questions, and is properly formatted.
The Stories
- 2nd c BCE (trans. 1611): "Susanna and the Elders" from The Bible (plain)
- c 1100; trans. c 1840: "The Wooing of Olwen" from The Mabinogion (plain)
- 1400/1904: "The Pardoner's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer (plain)
- 1812: "Iron Hans" from Grimm's Fairy Tales (plain)
- 1819: "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving (plain)
- 1835: "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (plain)
- 1837: "The Emperor's New Clothes" by Hans Christian Andersen (plain)
- 1842: "The Pied Piper" by Robert Browning (plain)
- 1846: "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe (complete)
- 1853: "Bartleby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville (plain)
- 1865: "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain (plain)
- 1869: "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte (plain)
- 1882: "The Lady or the Tiger?" by Frank R. Stockton (plain)
- 1882: "The Man who Never Laughed During the Rest of His Days" from The 1,001 Nights
- 1884: "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant (plain)
- 1884: "The Three Hermits" by Leo Tolstoy (plain)
- 1886: "A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett (plain)
- 1887: "The Lottery Ticket" by Anton Chekhov (plain)
- 1888: "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde (plain)
- 1890: "Childe Rowland": An English Fairy Tale told by Joseph Jacobs (complete)
- 1890: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce (plain)
- 1892: "The Speckled Band" by Arthur Conan Doyle (plain)
- 1892: "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (plain)
- 1894: "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling (plain)
- 1897: "A Pair of Silk Stockings" by Kate Chopin (plain)
- 1898: "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" by Stephen Crane (plain)
- 1902: "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs (plain)
- 1904: "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" by M. R. James (complete)
- 1904: "Oshidori (The Mandarin Ducks)" by Lafcadio Hearne (plain)
- 1906: "The Door in the Wall" by H. G. Wells (in progress; notes and Characters list added)
- 1908: "Momotaro": A Japanese Fairy Tale told by Yei Theodora Ozaki (plain)
- 1911: "The Open Window" by Saki (plain)
- 1912: "The Soul of a Regiment" by Talbot Mundy (plain)
- 1914: "Araby" by James Joyce (plain)
- 1914: "The Caballero's Way" by O. Henry (complete)
- 1915: "Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka (plain)
- 1915: "The Penance of Magdalena" by J. Smeaton Chase (plain)
- 1919: "Landing in Luck" by William Faulkner (plain)
- 1920: "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (plain)
- 1926: "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence (plain)
- 1927: "Acoma," from Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (complete)
- 1927: "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway (plain)
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