Classic Short Stories
Classic Short Stories
Sarah Orne Jewett, Mark Twain, Alphonse Daudet, Ambrose Bierce, Wilkie Collins, Frank R. Stockton, Лев Толстой, Guy de Maupassant, O. Henry, Willa Cather, Edward Everett Hale, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, Bret Harte, Thomas Hardy, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Антон Павлович Чехов
About this book
Theme.
Death of the Dauphin / Alphonse Daudet
Lady or the tiger? / Frank Stockton
Artist of the beautiful / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
Setting.
White heron / Sarah Orne Jewett
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) / Edgar Allan Poe
Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte --
Plot.
Piece of string / Guy de Maupassant
To please his wife / Thomas Hardy
Cop and the anthem / O. Henry --
Point of view.
£1,000,000 bank note / Mark Twain
Horseman in the sky / Ambrose Bierce
Paul's case / Willa Cather --
Character.
God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoy
Man without a country / Edward Everett Hale
Louisa / Mary Wilkins Freeman --
Tone.
Fatal cradle / Wilkie Collins
[Story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) / Kate Chopin
Work of art / Anton Chekhov
Details
- OL Work ID
- OL20136833W
Subjects
Short storiesAmerican fictionAmerican Horror talesAmerican literatureAmerican Short storiesChildren's fictionfearFictionhorrorHorror storiespendulumsSpanish Inquisitionfreedomselfhoodself-fulfillmentmeaning of loveshort story