classic short stories

Innumerable writers have left an amazing collection of short stories, which are read by children and adults, around the world. In fact, innumerable poems for kids and stories have been translated from various languages, in order to reach out to readers across the globe.

Given here is a list of the popular classic short stories...

An Affair of State - Guy de Maupassant
Confessing - Guy de Maupassant
A Coward - Guy de Maupassant
The Ambitious Guest- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ethan Brand - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Araby - James Joyce
Clay - James Joyce
The Baron of Grogzwig - Charles Dickens
The Bet - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The Darling - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
A Day in the Country - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The Black Cat - Edgar Allan Poe
The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe
A Blackjack Bargainer - O. Henry
The Coming-Out of Maggie - O. Henry
A Burlesque Biography - Mark Twain
Italian with Grammar - Mark Twain
Italian without a Master - Mark Twain
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County - Mark Twain
A Child's Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas
The Door in the Wall - H. G. Wells
The Elephant's Child - Rudyard Kipling
How the Leopard Got His Spots - Rudyard Kipling
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - Rudyard Kipling
Eva Is Inside Her Cat - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Eyes of a Blue Dog - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The First Christmas Tree - Henry Van Dyke
The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses - Irwin Shaw
A Haunted House - Virginia Woolf
Markheim - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Mouse - Saki (H. H. Munro)
Mrs. Packletide's Tiger - Saki (H. H. Munro)
The Open Window - Saki (H. H. Munro)
A Passion in the Desert - Honoré de Balzac
Rocking-Horse Winner - D. H. Lawrence
Shooting an Elephant - George Orwel
A Telephone Call - Dorothy Parker
The Use of Force - William Carlos Williams