Category: Classic Short Story

MY RED CAP by Louisa M. Alcott

MY RED CAP by Louisa M. Alcott “He who serves well need not fear to ask his wages.” I It

YEVGRAF IVANOVITCH SHIRYAEV, a small farmer, whose father, a parish priest, now deceased, had received a gift of three hundred acres

THE GHOST OF ART by Charles Dickens I AM a bachelor, residing in rather a dreary set of chambers in

A STORY OF RAVENNA By Boccaccio Ravenna being a very ancient city in Romagna, there dwelt sometime a great number

THE HAUNTED MIND by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) What a singular moment is the first one, when you have hardly begun

MONTEZUMA’S CASTLE By C. B. CORY “No,” said the curiosity dealer, “that mummy is not for sale. I had too

THE POET AND THE PEASANT by O.Henry The other day a poet friend of mine, who has lived in close

THE BOARDING HOUSE by James Joyce MRS. MOONEY was a butcher’s daughter. She was a woman who was quite able

The Inconsiderate Waiter By James Matthew Barrie Frequently I have to ask myself in the street for the name of

After A Shadow by T. S. Arthur “ARTY! Arty!” called Mrs. Mayflower, from the window, one bright June morning. “Arty,

NELLY’S HOSPITAL by Louisa May Alcott Nelly sat beside her mother picking lint; but while her fingers flew, her eyes

THREE QUESTIONS by Leo Tolstoy It once occurred to a certain king, that if he always knew the right time

THE APPARITION OF MRS. VEAL Daniel Defoe (1661-1731) This thing is so rare in all its circumstances, and on so

A LONELY RIDE by Bret Harte As I stepped into the Slumgullion stage I saw that it was a dark

ANARCHY ALLEY Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar Nelson To the casual observer, the quaint, narrow, little alley that lies in the