The Flood by Émile Zola
The Flood by Emile Zola was published in 1880 and is based on a actual flood that happened in a village near Toulouse in South West France.
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A Pursuit Race by Ernest Hemingway
A Pursuit Race by Ernest Hemingway was published in 1927. It appears in the collection Men Without Women.
Transcendental Wild Oats by Louisa May Alcott
Transcendental Wild Oats by Louisa May Alcott details her family’s involvement with the Transcendentalist community Fruitlands in the early 1840s. The work was first published in a New York newspaper in 1873.
The Coffin Maker by Alexander Pushkin
The Coffin Maker by Alexander Pushkin tells the story of Adrian Prokhoroff, a funeral director who, in a drunken rage, shouts out an invitation to all his customers to a party at his house…and unleashes a scene of grisly horror.
On Cats and Dogs by Jerome K. Jerome
On Cats and Dogs by Jerome K. Jerome appears in Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886.
The Alchemist by H. P. Lovecraft
The Alchemist by H. P. Lovecraft was written in 1908, when Lovecraft was 17 or 18, and first published in the November 1916 issue of the United Amateur.
The Voyage by Katherine Mansfield
The Voyage by Katherine Mansfield was first published in The Sphere on 24 December 1921, and later reprinted in The Garden Party and Other Stories.
Raspberry Spring by Ivan Turgenev
Raspberry Spring by Ivan Turgenev is the third story in Ivan Turgenev’s collection of short stories, A Sportsman’s Sketches. Published in 1852, it was his first published work.
The Hammer of God by G. K. Chesterton
The Hammer of God by G. K. Chesterton features his detective, Father Brown, and was published in the short story collection The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911.
The Punctiliousness of Don Sebastian by W. Somerset Maugham
The Punctiliousness of Don Sebastian by W. Somerset Maugham is an ancient tale of revenge as the title character confronts his wife’s infidelity and manipulates his way to a position of power.