Category: Classic Short Story

THE REAL THING CHAPTER I When the porter’s wife, who used to answer the house-bell, announced “A gentleman and a

Zadig the Babylonian THE BLIND OF ONE EYE FRAN?OIS MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE There lived at Babylon, in the reign

THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDING If you have formatting issues, click here. The other day I saw a wedding?

Painting by Vladimir Makovsky How Much Land Does a Man Need by Leo Tolstoy I An elder sister came to

I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men,

It was Paul’s afternoon to appear before the faculty of the Pittsburgh High School to account for his various misdemeanours. He had been suspended a week ago, and his father had called

La vieuville was suddenly cut short by a cry of despair, and a the same time a noise was heard wholly unlike any other sound. The cry and sounds came from within

THE LADY, OR THE TIGER? In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas, though somewhat polished

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County By Mark Twain is one of Twain’s most prized stories.