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.
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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.
A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin
A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin was published in 1897. The story follows Mrs. Sommers who prefers spending a windfall on herself, rather than on her children.
The Last Lesson By Alphonse Daudet
Originally published in 1880, The Last Lesson By Alphonse Daudet is a poignant short story set in an unnamed town in Alsace during the early days of the Prussian occupation, around 1873.
The Woman in the Big Hat by Baroness Orczy
Originally published in 1910, The Woman in the Big Hat by Baroness Orczy features Molly Robertson-Kirk otherwise known as Lady Molly of Scotland Yard.
Jeeves and the Chump Cyril by P. G. Wodehouse
Jeeves and the Chump Cyril by P. G. Wodehouse was published in the Saturday Evening Post in New York in June 1918, and in The Strand Magazine in London in August 1918.