Classic American Short Stories

by Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kate Chopin. Stephen Crane, Sherwood Anderson, Herman Melville,

Jack London, Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, Bret Harte

 

Young Goodman Brown

Bartleby, the Scrivener

The Cask of Amontillad

To Build a Fire

The Open Boat

The Outcasts of Poker

The Gift of the Magi

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Desiree's Baby

Hands

THE HAIRY TREE MAN. Level 1

The hairy tree man lives behind a door in a wall. His diet usually consists of worms…until he mistakenly decides to eat Amelia for lunch.

Complete Ghost Stories by M. R. James

M. R. James is a name no one seems to know any more outside the circle of die-hard horror and ghost story fans. But, his impact on modern genre writers has been enormous and freely acknowledged.

The Best American Humorous Short Stories

Wherever there is an italic, the hickory descended. It fell about as regularly and after the fashion of the stick beating upon the bass drum during a funeral march. But the beast, although convinced that something serious was impending, did not consider a funeral march appropriate for the occasion. He protested, at first, with vigorous whiskings of his tail and a rapid shifting of his ears.

Animal Farm: 50th Anniversary Edition

Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works.