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 Marvellous Adventures and Rare Conceits of Master Tyll Owlglass
Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie · short story
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The Mary Frances Story Book; or, Adventures Among the Story People
Jane Eayre Fryer · short story
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The Masked World
Jack Williamson · short story
The story in one page
The Masque of the Red Death
A prince attempts to outrun a fatal pandemic by welding his doors shut and throwing a very expensive party.
Edgar Allan Poe · short story
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The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories
Arnold Bennett · short story
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The mathematicians
Arthur Feldman · short story
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The Mating of the Moons
Bryce Walton · short story
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The Maugham Obsession
August Derleth · short story
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The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings
Harriet Beecher Stowe · short story
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The Measure of a Man
Randall Garrett · short story
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The Medici Boots
Pearl Norton Swet · short story
The story in one page
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
A legendary detective solves high-stakes mysteries involving horse racing and family secrets before meeting his match at a Swiss waterfall.
Arthur Conan Doyle · short story
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The Men of Boru
Jack A. Nelson · short story
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The men return
Jack Vance · short story
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The Merchants of Venus
A. H. Phelps · short story
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The Mercurian
Frank Belknap Long · short story
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The Mercy of the Lord
Flora Annie Webster Steel · short story
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The Mermaid of Druid Lake, and Other Stories
Charles Weathers Bump · short story
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The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche
Anatole France · short story
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The Merry Men, and Other Tales and Fables
Robert Louis Stevenson · short story
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The Message
Honoré de Balzac · short story
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The Messengers
Richard Harding Davis · short story
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The Mightiest Man
Patrick Fahy · short story
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The Mind Digger
Winston K. Marks · play
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The minister had to wait
Roger D. Aycock · short story
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The minstrel's curse
Alex. McVeigh Mrs. Miller · short story
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The Mintage: Being Ten Stories & One More
Elbert Hubbard · short story
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The Minus Woman
R. R. Winterbotham · short story
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The Miraculous Pitcher
Nathaniel Hawthorne · myth
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The Miraculous Revenge
Bernard Shaw · play
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 274, September 22, 1827
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 288, Supplementary Number
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828)
periodical
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 350, January 3, 1829
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 399, Supplementary Number
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 580, Supplemental Number
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The mirrors of Tuzun Thune
Robert E. Howard · short story
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The Mischievous Typesetter
Noel M. Loomis · short story
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The Miserly Robot
R. J. Rice · short story
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The Missing Disclaimer
Samuel J. Sackett · short story
The story in one page
The Missing Will
An uncle challenges his niece to a duel of wits, and the referee is Poirot.
Agatha Christie · short story
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The missionary
Jesse F. Bone · short story
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The Missionary Sheriff
Octave Thanet · short story
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The Mississippi Saucer
Frank Belknap Long · short story
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The Mistake of Christopher Columbus
Jules Archer · short story
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The Mistletoe Bough
Anthony Trollope · short story
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The Model of a Judge
Joseph Samachson · short story