Books: What to Know
Short Reads, Big Stories
The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.
The library
5,838 short stories
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The schoolmistress, and other stories
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov · short story
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The scientific pioneer
Nelson S. Bond · short story
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The Scottish Fairy Book
Elizabeth W. Grierson · myth
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The Search After Hapiness [sic]: A Tale
Charlotte Brontë · short story
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The second adventures of Uncle Wiggily
Howard Roger Garis · short story
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The Second Class Passenger: Fifteen Stories
Perceval Gibbon · short story
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The Second Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling · short story
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The Second Voice
Mann Rubin · short story
The story in one page
The secret of Father Brown
A dumpy priest with a club-like umbrella explains how he catches killers by mentally committing their murders first.
G. K. Chesterton · short story
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The Secret of Kralitz
Henry Kuttner · short story
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The Secret Rose
W. B. Yeats · short story
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The Secret Trails
Charles G. D. Sir Roberts · short story
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The Seeder
Max Williams · short story
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The Semantic War
Bill Clothier · short story
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The Sense of Wonder
Stephen Marlowe · short story
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The Sentimental Vikings
R. V. Risley · short story
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The Sentimentalists
Murray Leinster · short story
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The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I.
E. T. A. Hoffmann · short story
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The Serapion Brethren, Vol. II
E. T. A. Hoffmann · short story
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The seven missionaries
H. C. McNeile · short story
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The Seven Plaits of Nettles, and other stories
Edric Vredenburg · myth
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The Seven Poor Travellers
Charles Dickens · short story
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The Seven Vagabonds (From "Twice Told Tales")
Nathaniel Hawthorne · short story
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The Seventh Order
Jerry Sohl · short story
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The Severed Hand
Wilhelm Hauff · short story
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The Shadowy Third, and Other Stories
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow · short story
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The Shape of Fear
Elia Wilkinson Peattie · short story
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The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, and Other Tales
Hannah More · short story
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The Sheriff and His Partner
Frank Harris · short story
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The Sheriffs Bluff
Thomas Nelson Page · short story
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The Shining Cow
Alex James · short story
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The Shipshape Miracle
Clifford D. Simak · short story
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The Short-story
William Patterson Atkinson · short story
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The shotgun princess
William Merriam Rouse · short story
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The show must go on
Henry Slesar · play
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The shrine
Walter J. Sheldon · short story
The story in one page
The Shunned House
A century of tragedy in a cellar, until the narrator brings a carboy of acid.
H. P. Lovecraft · short story
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The Sick-a-Bed Lady
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott · short story
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The silent cabin
Evan Merritt Post · short story
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The silica gel pseudomorph, and other stories
Edward Hart · short story
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The Silver Crown: Another Book of Fables
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards · myth
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The silver key
H. P. Lovecraft · short story
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The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon, and other humorous tales
Richard Edward Connell · short story
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The Singing Mouse Stories
Emerson Hough · short story
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The Sister Years (From "Twice Told Tales")
Nathaniel Hawthorne · short story
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The Sisters Rondoli, and Other Stories
Guy de Maupassant · short story
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The Skating Party and Other Stories
short story
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The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
Washington Irving · short story