Short stories

"A Christmas Tree and a Wedding" is a short story by Dostoevsky. It is narrated by an awkard outcast attending a Christmas party. This man, although invited, knows only the host and talks to no one. Directly due to his aloof nature, he observes the party's guest of honour take special interest in one of the children; the most beautiful girl. From this starting point Dostoevsky masterfully twists the story and concludes it with a masterful twist in the last sentence. A Christmas Tree and a Wedding is an artistically "perfect" short story in this sense. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Christmas Tree and a Wedding"

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, initially collected in Winner Take Nothing. This is another of Hemingway's dense vignettes, filled with nuance but spare in style. The anecdote revolves around the difference between a clean, bright cafe and a dark, not-so-clean, bar as a place for lonely men to spend the long, sleepless nights. Two waiters discuss a lingering patron in a cafe who overstays his welcome as the night wears on. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"

A Day's Wait is a short story by Ernest Hemingway which appears in The Snows of Kilimanjaro. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Day's Wait"

The Hunger Artist (Ein Hungerkünstler), also translated as A Fasting Artist, is a short story by Franz Kafka written in 1922 but not published until after his death in 1924. The protagonist is archetypically a creation of Kafka, an individual marginalised and victimised by society at large. The story details the decline and death of a professional hunger artist in a circus who starves himself in a cage. He was systematically neglected by audiences, and remained in obloquy until one of the circus overseers asked him whether he was still fasting. His response is illuminating in that his rationale for his fasting was that he could never find any food he liked, whereupon he died. His cage was subsequently filled with a panther which drew admiring crowds who watch it eat large pieces of meat. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Hunger Artist"

"A Legend of Old Egypt" (Polish: "Z legend dawnego Egiptu") is a short story by Bolesław Prus, originally published January 1, 1888. It was his first piece of historical fiction and later served as a preliminary sketch for his only historical novel, Pharaoh ( 1895). "A Legend of Old Egypt" and Pharaoh show unmistakable kinship in setting, theme and denouement. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Legend of Old Egypt"

A Mother is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection Dubliners. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Mother"

A Painful Case is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection Dubliners. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Painful Case"

"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" is a well known short story written by J. D. Salinger, first published in the January 31, 1948 issue of the New Yorker, and was later collected in 1949's 55 Stories from the New Yorker, as well as his 1953 collection, Nine Stories. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Perfect Day for Bananafish"

"A Report to an Academy" ("Ein Bericht für eine Akademie") is a short story written by Franz Kafka in 1917 and originally published that year by Martin Buber, in the German monthly Der Jude, along with another of Kafka's stories, " Jackals and Arabs" ("Schakale und Araber"). Kafka allowed the stories to be published so long as Buber did not label them as "parables," a comment that can significantly affect how one reads the texts. Buber was pleased by the stories, and Kafka's friend, Max Brod, used this as evidence to attempt to dissuade Kafka from his harsh self-criticism and hesitancy in publishing. It appeared again in a 1919 collection titled A Country Doctor (Ein Landartz). ...more on Wikipedia about "A Report to an Academy"

A Trillion Feet of Gas is a well-known short story by the novelist John Updike, set in the final days of 1956, in New York City, published in his collection The Same Door 1959. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Trillion Feet of Gas"

"A&P" is a short story by John Updike in which the hero seemingly takes a stand for his version of what is right, only to face disappointment. ...more on Wikipedia about "A&P (story)"

After the Race is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection Dubliners. ...more on Wikipedia about "After the race"

Aghwee The Sky Monster (空の怪物アグイー, Sora no kaibutsu Aguii) is a short story by the Nobel Prize winning Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aghwee the Sky Monster"

Alicia's Diary is a short story written by Victorian novelist Thomas Hardy in 1887. It is the diary of a girl named Alicia that is a tragic romance. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alicia's Diary"

All the King's Horses is a short story written in 1953 by Kurt Vonnegut. It can be found in his collection of short stories Welcome to the Monkey House. ...more on Wikipedia about "All the King's Horses"

"An Honest Thief" is an 1848 short story by Dostoevsky. ...more on Wikipedia about "An Honest Thief"

An Inhabitant of Carcosa is a short story written by 19th century critic and occasional horror author Ambrose Bierce. The story concerns a man from the ancient city of Carcosa who awakens from a sickness-induced sleep to find himself lost in an unfamiliar wilderness. The location of Carsosa was subsequently borrowed by Robert W. Chambers as the setting of his fictional play " The King in Yellow," which features heavily in many of the stories in the book of the same name. These concepts were further expanded upon by H. P. Lovecraft in his Cthulhu mythos stories. The influence of this short story is still felt today, as modern authors continue to contribute to the Cthulhu mythos. The story is told in first-person narrative, and includes a rather interesting footnote at the end. ...more on Wikipedia about "An Inhabitant of Carcosa"

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is a short story by Ambrose Bierce originally written in 1886. It was first published in the 1891 collection Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. ...more on Wikipedia about "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

Anal Haq is a short story in the collection Anargha Nimisham written by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer,in typical Khalil Gibran style based on the life of the renowned Sufi, Mansur Al-Hallaj ** who was indicted and killed on charges of heresy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anal Haq"

Angry Candy is a 1998 collection of short stories by Harlan Ellison that is loosely organized around the theme of death. ...more on Wikipedia about "Angry Candy"

Animal World ( Spanish original title: Mundo animal) is a collection of short stories written by Antonio di Benedetto, with hallucinatory animal transformations by the internationally acknowledged Argentine master. ...more on Wikipedia about "Animal World"

Araby is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection Dubliners. ...more on Wikipedia about "Araby (story)"

Baa Baa, Black Sheep is the title of a short story by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1900. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baa Baa, Black Sheep"

"Barn Burning" is a short story by William Faulkner, which appeared in Harper's in 1938. It takes place in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County and revolves around the adolescent Colonel Sartoris Snopes and his family. The story deals with class conflicts, the influence of fathers, and vengeance as viewed through the third-person perspective of a young, influential child. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barn Burning"

"Bartleby the Scrivener" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnam's Magazine in two parts. The first part appeared in November 1853, with the conclusion published in December 1853. It was reprinted in Melville's The Piazza Tales in 1856 with minor textual alterations. The work is said to have been inspired, in part, by Melville's reading of Emerson, and some have pointed to specific parallels to Emerson's essay, " The Transcendentalist." The story was adapted into a movie starring Crispin Glover in 2001. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bartleby the Scrivener"

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