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.
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5,838 short stories
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The Killer
J. T. Oliver · short story
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The Kindred of the Wild: A Book of Animal Life
Charles G. D. Sir Roberts · short story
The story in one page
The King in Yellow
A stage play turns its readers into walking disasters. The city is just collateral damage.
Robert W. Chambers · collection
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The King of the Golden River
John Ruskin · short story
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The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls
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The King's Messenger
F. Marion Crawford · short story
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The King's Stratagem, and Other Stories
Stanley John Weyman · short story
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The Kink
Thomson Burtis · short story
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The Kipling Reader
Rudyard Kipling · short story
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The Kitchen Cat and Other Stories
Amy Walton · short story
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The Kitchen Cat, and other Tales
Amy Walton · short story
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The Klygha
H. B. Fyfe · short story
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The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 4, October 1843
periodical
The story in one page
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
Russian peasants outwork devils, survive crushing poverty in ten-foot stone rooms, and learn why a stolen egg starts a fire.
Leo graf Tolstoy · collection
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The Laboratorians
Edward Peattie · short story
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The Lady in the Car
William Le Queux · short story
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The Lady of the Barge
W. W. Jacobs · short story
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The Lady of the Barge and Others, Entire Collection
W. W. Jacobs · short story
The story in one page
The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
Disillusioned vacationers, petty tyrants, and exhausted doctors navigate the quiet miseries and brief romances of the Russian provincial middle class.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov · collection
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The Lady, or the Tiger?
Frank R. Stockton · short story
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The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales
Arthur Quiller-Couch · short story
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The Lake Gun
James Fenimore Cooper · short story
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The Lamps of the Angels
Richard Sabia · short story
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The land beyond the mist
Ernest Haycox · short story
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The Land of Look Behind
Paul Cameron Brown · short story
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The Lane That Had No Turning, Complete
Gilbert Parker · short story
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The Lane That Had No Turning, Volume 2
Gilbert Parker · short story
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The Lane That Had No Turning, Volume 3
Gilbert Parker · short story
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The Lane That Had No Turning, Volume 4
Gilbert Parker · short story
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The Last Brave Invader
Charles L. Fontenay · short story
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The last class
Richard Banks · short story
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The Last Crusade
George H. Smith · short story
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The Last Days of L.A.
George H. Smith · short story
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The last days of the captain
Kate Wilhelm · short story
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The Last Evolution
John W. Jr. Campbell · short story
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The Last Galley; Impressions and Tales
Arthur Conan Doyle · short story
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The Last Gentleman
Rory Magill · short story
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The Last Laugh
Bryce Walton · short story
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The Last Laugh
D. H. Lawrence · short story
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The Last Letter
Fritz Leiber · short story
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The Last Lion, and Other Tales
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez · short story
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The Last Martian
Ray Van Houten · short story
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The Last of Mrs. DeBrugh
H. Sivia · short story
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The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago
Arthur Conan Doyle · short story
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The Last Penny and Other Stories
T. S. Arthur · short story
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The Last Place on Earth
Jim Harmon · short story
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The Last Plunge
Samuel J. Sackett · short story
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The last quarry
Bryce Walton · short story