Bibliography
This is a listing of the stories by author
with mention of the books that the stories were taken from or mention
of the person who so graciously supplied the story to Classic Short
Stories. Bravo!! We have also added a word count for those who have a limited
amount of time and would prefer to gauge the length of the story to
the amount of time they have.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Marjorie Daw,
FAMILY BOOK OF BEST LOVED SHORT STORIES
189-207 (1954)
Word Count: 7419.
Honore de Balzac
A Passion in the Desert,
A TREASURY OF SHORT STORIES
60-69 (1947)
Word Count: 5565.
Ambrose Bierce
Beyond the Wall,
submitted by Annalee Elliot (1999)
Word Count: 3448.
A Horseman in the Sky,
A TREASURY OF SHORT STORIES
257-261 (1947)
Word Count: 2543.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,
ANTHOLOGY OF FAMOUS AMERICAN STORIES
337-344 (1953)
Word Count: 3804.
Paul Bowles
In the Red Room,
submitted by Cathy
Word Count: 3690.
Willa Cather
Paul's Case,
ANTHOLOGY OF FAMOUS AMERICAN STORIES
681-697 (1953)
Word Count: 8970.
Anton Pavlovich Checkhov
The Bet,
ADVENTURES IN APPRECIATION
167-172 (1973)
Word Count: 2871.
The Darling,
BOOK OF THE SHORT STORY, THE
261-271 (1948)
Word Count: 5028.
A Day in the Country,
A TREASURY OF SHORT STORIES
54-58 (1947)
Word Count: 2385.
The Lottery Ticket,
APPROACH TO LITERATURE, AN
37-39 (1952)
Word Count: 1978.
A Slander,
ADVENTURES IN APPRECIATION
146-149 (1973)
Word Count: 1503.
Stuart Cloete
The Soldier's Peaches,
30 STORIES TO REMEMBER
52-61 (1962)
Word Count: 5231.
Richard Connell
The Most Dangerous Game,
ADVENTURES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
19-30 (1947)
Word Count: 8426.
Roald Dahl
Beware of the Dog,
A TREASURY OF SHORT STORIES
493-500 (1947)
Word Count: 5072.
Lamb to the Slaughter,
submitted by Ian Pramuk
Word Count: 3899.
Man From the South,
submitted by Ian Pramuk
Word Count: 4625.
Richard Harding Davis
The Consul,
SCRIBNER TREASURY--22 CLASSIC TALES
473-492 (1953)
Word Count: 7446.
Fielding Dawson
The Vertical Fields,
submitted by Cathy
Word Count: 762.
Charles Dickens
The Baron of Grogzwig,
submitted by Annalee Elliot (1999)
Word Count: 3772.
The Poor Relation's Story,
FIRESIDE READER
102-111 (1978)
Word Count: 4356.
Ambrose Flack
The Strangers That Came to Town,
submitted by Davina Rubin (2007)
Word Count: 6366.
Graham Greene
The End of the Party,
submitted by Robert Wiley (2007)
Word Count: 3400.
Bret Harte
How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar,
BRET HARTE'S WRITINGS
55-79 (1900)
Word Count: 5704.
The Luck of Roaring Camp,
APPROACH TO LITERATURE, AN
80-86 (1952)
Word Count: 4190.
Tennessee's Partner,
SELECTIONS FROM AMERICAN LITERATURE WITH SELECTIONS FROM LATER AMERICAN WRITERS
458-468 (1919)
Word Count: 3624.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Ambitious Guest,
SELECTIONS FROM AMERICAN LITERATURE WITH SELECTIONS FROM LATER AMERICAN WRITERS
109-118 (1919)
Word Count: 3343.
Ethan Brand,
BOOK OF THE SHORT STORY, THE
179-192 (1948)
Word Count: 6826.
The Great Carbuncle,
SELECTIONS FROM AMERICAN LITERATURE WITH SELECTIONS FROM LATER AMERICAN WRITERS
118-134 (1919)
Word Count: 5703.
The Minister's Black Veil,
ADVENTURES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
48-55 (1947)
Word Count: 5285.
Rappaccini's Daughter,
ANTHOLOGY OF FAMOUS AMERICAN STORIES
60-84 (1953)
Word Count: 12261.
The Wedding-Knell,
SELECTIONS FROM AMERICAN LITERATURE WITH SELECTIONS FROM LATER AMERICAN WRITERS
134-143 (1919)
Word Count: 3208.
Young Goodman Brown,
MODERN ENGLISH READINGS
554-564 (1957)
Word Count: 5387.
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
A Blackjack Bargainer,
ANTHOLOGY OF FAMOUS AMERICAN STORIES
499-510 (1953)
Word Count: 5672.
The Coming-Out of Maggie,
A TREASURY OF SHORT STORIES
307-311 (1947)
Word Count: 2555.
The Gift of the Magi,
FAMILY BOOK OF BEST LOVED SHORT STORIES
184-188 (1954)
Word Count: 2163.
The Last Leaf,
SELECTIONS FROM AMERICAN LITERATURE WITH SELECTIONS FROM LATER AMERICAN WRITERS
440-446 (1919)
Word Count: 2500.
The Princess and the Puma,
ADVENTURES IN APPRECIATION
99-104 (1973)
Word Count: 2414.
The Ransom of Red Chief,
SELECTIONS FROM AMERICAN LITERATURE WITH SELECTIONS FROM LATER AMERICAN WRITERS
428-439 (1919)
Word Count: 4372.
The Whirligig of Life,
NOTABLE SHORT STORIES OF TODAY
37-43 (1929)
Word Count: 2256.
Evan Hunter
The Last Spin,
submitted by Cathy Plouffe
Word Count: 2901.
Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle (A Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker),
ANTHOLOGY OF FAMOUS AMERICAN STORIES
29-42 (1953)
Word Count: 6934.
Shirley Jackson
The Lottery,
submitted by Greg Spooner
Word Count: 3773.
W. W. Jacobs
The Monkey's Paw,
ADVENTURES IN APPRECIATION
105-112 (1973)
Word Count: 4134.
James Joyce
Araby,
APPROACH TO LITERATURE, AN
188-191 (1952)
Word Count: 2399.
Clay,
APPROACH TO LITERATURE, AN
134-137 (1952)
Word Count: 2649.
A Little Cloud,
BOOK OF THE SHORT STORY, THE
326-338 (1948)
Word Count: 5215.
Rudyard Kipling
The Elephant's Child,
submitted by Annalee Elliot (1999)
Word Count: 2544.
How the Leopard Got His Spots,
submitted by Annalee Elliot (1999)
Word Count: 2098.
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi from The Jungle Book,
submitted by David Beeston
Word Count: 5896.
Ring Lardner
The Golden Honeymoon,
FIFTY BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1915-1965
23-37 (1965)
Word Count: 6758.
Haircut,
BOOK OF THE SHORT STORY, THE
344-353 (1948)
Word Count: 5046.
D. H. Lawrence
The Rocking-Horse Winner,
A TREASURY OF SHORT STORIES
408-418 (1947)
Word Count: 6015.
Jack London
To Build a Fire,
A TREASURY OF SHORT STORIES
294-305 (1947)
Word Count: 7176.
A Piece of Steak,
FIRESIDE READER
179-196 (1978)
Word Count: 7805.
Katherine Mansfield
The Garden Party,
MODERN ENGLISH READINGS
667-679 (1957)
Word Count: 5557.
The Stranger,
MASTERS OF THE MODERN SHORT STORY
221-233 (1955)
Word Count: 4722.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Eva Is Inside Her Cat,
submitted by Aaron Altman
Word Count: 4309.
Eyes of a Blue Dog,
submitted by Cathy
Word Count: 2797.
One of These Days,
submitted by Michael Quinlan
Word Count: 994.
Guy de Maupassant
An Affair of State,
SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT
120-127 (1941)
Word Count: 3642.
Bellflower,
SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT
210-213 (1941)
Word Count: 1857.
The Christening,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
305-309 (1970)
Word Count: 1720.
Coco,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
480-484 (1970)
Word Count: 1472.
Confessing,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
426-431 (1970)
Word Count: 1944.
A Coward,
BOOK OF THE SHORT STORY, THE
208-215 (1948)
Word Count: 3159.
A Dead Woman's Secret,
SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT
381-384 (1941)
Word Count: 1411.
Denis,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
42-49 (1970)
Word Count: 2284.
The Devil,
SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT
230-235 (1941)
Word Count: 2731.
The Donkey,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
50-59 (1970)
Word Count: 2989.
The Dowry,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
141-147 (1970)
Word Count: 1870.
The Drunkard,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
468-473 (1970)
Word Count: 1691.
A Family,
SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT
206-210 (1941)
Word Count: 1914.
Farewell,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
533-538 (1970)
Word Count: 1624.
The Father,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
416-425 (1970)
Word Count: 3081.
Friend Patience,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
134-140 (1970)
Word Count: 1657.
The Hairpin,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
699-705 (1970)
Word Count: 2208.
The Hand,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
485-492 (1970)
Word Count: 2098.
A Humble Drama,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
553-558 (1970)
Word Count: 2023.
Humiliation,
SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT
429-433 (1941)
Word Count: 2083.
In the Wood,
SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT
213-216 (1941)
Word Count: 1862.
Indiscretion,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
595-602 (1970)
Word Count: 1429.
The Inn,
SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT
198-206 (1941)
Word Count: 5114.
Julie Romain,
SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT
325-330 (1941)
Word Count: 2768.
The Kiss,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
37-41 (1970)
Word Count: 1354.
Madame Parisse,
SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT
364-368 (1941)
Word Count: 2434.
Mademoiselle Fifi,
SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT
75-83 (1941)
Word Count: 4618.
Mademoiselle Pearl,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
782-799 (1970)
Word Count: 5751.
The Marquis de Fumerol,
SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT
217-222 (1941)
Word Count: 2652.
Miss Harriet,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
1-23 (1970)
Word Count: 7876.
Misti--Recollections of a Bachelor,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
396-401 (1970)
Word Count: 1921.
Moonlight,
SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT
422-425 (1941)
Word Count: 1464.
The Necklace,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
432-441 (1970)
Word Count: 3091.
Old Mongilet,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
177-183 (1970)
Word Count: 2106.
The Piece of String,
SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT
34-38 (1941)
Word Count: 2530.
That Pig of a Morin,
SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT
171-179 (1941)
Word Count: 4279.
Theodule Sabot's Confession,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
328-335 (1970)
Word Count: 2637.
Timbuctoo,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
518-526 (1970)
Word Count: 2479.
Toine,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
124-133 (1970)
Word Count: 3056.
Two Little Soldiers,
A TREASURY OF SHORT STORIES
94-98 (1947)
Word Count: 2071.
The Unknown,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
576-582 (1970)
Word Count: 1896.
Useless Beauty,
SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT
108-120 (1941)
Word Count: 6776.
A Vagabond,
SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT
138-146 (1941)
Word Count: 4490.
A Vendetta,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
474-479 (1970)
Word Count: 1764.
Waiter, a Bock!,
SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT
259-263 (1941)
Word Count: 2385.
The Wreck,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
761-773 (1970)
Word Count: 4058.
Yvette,
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOLUME TWO GUY DE MAUPASSANT
213-291 (1970)
Word Count: 1552.
Herman Melville
The Fiddler,
submitted by Annalee Elliot (1999)
Word Count: 2384.
The Lightning-Rod Man,
submitted by Annalee Elliot (1999)
Word Count: 2720.
Prosper Mérimée
Mateo Falcone,
submitted by Ed Cooper
Word Count: 4686.
Liam O'Flaherty
The Sniper,
submitted by Sarah Bright
Word Count: 1618.
James O'Keefe
Death Makes a Comeback,
TREASURY OF AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES
228-237 (1989)
Word Count: 4492.
George Orwell
Politics and the English Language,
EXPOSITION AND PERSUASION,
178-187 (1957)
Word Count: 5505.
Shooting an Elephant,
THOUGHT IN PROSE
533-538 (1966)
Word Count: 3283.
Thomas Nelson Page
The Burial of the Guns,
SCRIBNER TREASURY--22 CLASSIC TALES
157-179 (1953)
Word Count: 9601.
Dorothy Parker
A Telephone Call,
A TREASURY OF SHORT STORIES
665-668 (1947)
Word Count: 2421.
Edgar Allan Poe
The Black Cat,
POEMS AND TALES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
260-266 ()
Word Count: 3998.
The Cask of Amontillado,
A TREASURY OF SHORT STORIES
251-255 (1947)
Word Count: 2495.
A Descent Into the Maelstrom,
POEMS AND TALES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
178-189 ()
Word Count: 7181.
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,
POEMS AND TALES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
153-159 ()
Word Count: 3620.
The Fall of the House of Usher,
POEMS AND TALES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
267-280 ()
Word Count: 7226.
The Imp of the Perverse,
POEMS AND TALES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
309-313 ()
Word Count: 2457.
The Masque of the Red Death,
ADVENTURES IN APPRECIATION
121-125 (1973)
Word Count: 2383.
Mesmeric Revelation,
POEMS AND TALES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
146-152 ()
Word Count: 3878.
The Pit and the Pendulum,
ANTHOLOGY OF FAMOUS AMERICAN STORIES
113-125 (1953)
Word Count: 6155.
The Premature Burial,
POEMS AND TALES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
290-299 ()
Word Count: 5637.
The Purloined Letter,
ANTHOLOGY OF FAMOUS AMERICAN STORIES
126-140 (1953)
Word Count: 7396.
The Tell-Tale Heart,
MODERN ENGLISH READINGS
551-554 (1957)
Word Count: 2093.
The Thousand-And-Second Tale of Scheherazade,
POEMS AND TALES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
159-170 ()
Word Count: 5707.
Von Kempelen and His Discovery,
POEMS AND TALES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
141-145 ()
Word Count: 2811.
Saki (H. H. Munro)
The Mouse,
FIRESIDE READER
257-260 (1978)
Word Count: 1520.
Mrs. Packletide's Tiger,
MODERN ENGLISH READINGS
697-699 (1957)
Word Count: 1377.
The Open Window,
A TREASURY OF SHORT STORIES
527-529 (1947)
Word Count: 1274.
Sredni Vashtar,
submitted by Ken
Word Count: 1830.
The Storyteller (Saki),
ADVENTURES IN APPRECIATION
141-144 (1973)
Word Count: 2109.
George Saunders
The Falls,
Word Count: 3801.
Irwin Shaw
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses,
FIRESIDE READER
164-172 (1978)
Word Count: 3211.
Carl Stephenson
Leiningen versus the Ants,
30 STORIES TO REMEMBER
642-657 (1962)
Word Count: 8881.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Markheim,
BOOK OF THE SHORT STORY, THE
193-207 (1948)
Word Count: 6815.
Frank Stockton
The Griffin and the Minor Canon,
A TREASURY OF SHORT STORIES
275-284 (1947)
Word Count: 6078.
The Lady, or the Tiger?,
ANTHOLOGY OF FAMOUS AMERICAN STORIES
248-253 (1953)
Word Count: 2747.
Jesse Stuart
Split Cherry Tree,
ADVENTURES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
142-149 (1947)
Word Count: 5547.
Dylan Thomas
A Child's Christmas in Wales,
Submitted by Fraser Anderson
Word Count: 3016.
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
A Burlesque Biography,
COMPLETE HUMOROUS SKETCHES AND TALES OF MARK TWAIN
177-182 (1961)
Word Count: 2149.
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,
ANTHOLOGY OF FAMOUS AMERICAN STORIES
254-259 (1953)
Word Count: 2631.
Italian with Grammar,
COMPLETE HUMOROUS SKETCHES AND TALES OF MARK TWAIN
704-710 (1961)
Word Count: 2623.
Italian without a Master,
COMPLETE HUMOROUS SKETCHES AND TALES OF MARK TWAIN
711-716 (1961)
Word Count: 2350.
Luck,
AMERICAN CLAIMANT AND OTHER STORIES AND SKETCHES, THE
267-272 (1896)
Word Count: 1797.
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed,
AMERICAN CLAIMANT AND OTHER STORIES AND SKETCHES, THE
243-266 (1896)
Word Count: 8080.
A Telephonic Conversation,
COMPLETE HUMOROUS SKETCHES AND TALES OF MARK TWAIN
478-481 (1961)
Word Count: 810.
Was it Heaven? Or Hell?,
submitted by Annalee Elliott (1999)
Word Count: 7178.
Henry Van Dyke
The First Christmas Tree,
SCRIBNER TREASURY--22 CLASSIC TALES
183-202 (1953)
Word Count: 7120.
Patrick Waddington
The Street That Got Mislaid,
FIRESIDE READER
173-178 (1978)
Word Count: 2112.
H. G. Wells
The Door in the Wall,
submitted by Annalee Elliot
Word Count: 7053.
The Time Machine,
submitted by Dave Howard
Word Count: 33015.
Edith Wharton
Afterward,
A TREASURY OF SHORT STORIES
339-359 (1947)
Word Count: 11870.
Souls Belated,
submitted by Annalee Elliot (1999)
Word Count: 10669.
E. B. White
The Door,
THOUGHT IN PROSE
495-498 (1966)
Word Count: 2073.
William Carlos Williams
The Use of Force,
APPROACH TO LITERATURE, AN
31-33 (1952)
Word Count: 1564.
Tobias Wolff
Hunters in the Snow,
submitted by Cathy
Word Count: 5952.
Virginia Woolf
A Haunted House,
A TREASURY OF SHORT STORIES
577-578 (1947)
Word Count: 710.
