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The Crocodile by Fyodor Dostoevsky was first published in 1865 in his magazine Epoch. It is a work of satire, an unusual but amusing tale about a man swallowed by a crocodile with a serious message about economics and communism.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson was first published in 1886. It follows Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based legal practitioner who investigates a series of strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and a murderous criminal named Edward Hyde.
The Horse Dealer’s Daughter by D. H. Lawrence was collected in his short story collection England, My England and Other Stories published in 1922.
A Simple Soul by Gustave Flaubert appears in his collection Three Tales (1877). It also was published as A Simple Heart.
The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol was first published in 1842 (sometimes translated as The Cloak). Vladimir Nabokov described “The Overcoat” as “the greatest Russian short story ever written”.
Year of Meteors by Walt Whitman appeared in the poetry collection Leaves of Grass. Though it was first published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing and rewriting Leaves of Grass, revising it multiple times.
Enter a Dragoon by Thomas Hardy appeared in the short story collection A Changed Man and Other Tales which was published in 1913.
The Grey Woman by Elizabeth Gaskell appears in her Tales of Mystery and the Macabre collection. It was first published in January 1861 in volume IV of Charles Dickens’ All the Year Round.
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad was first published in 1899. It tells the story of the sailor Charles Marlow as he tells his listeners the story of his assignment as steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African interior.
Master Zacharius by Jules Verne was written in 1854 but not published until 1874. It appeared in the short story collection A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories.
