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CLASSIC SHORT STORIES

One of the best ways of improving your English is to read the language. This part of our site includes complete
short stories by some of the very best classic writers. All stories are complete and unabridged. Read them online or
print them off and read them in bed! One new story is added to our site every month. All stories are in the public
domain and now copyright free. If you're looking for a larger range of free classic English literature online, try the
English Library. Or if modern short stories are your thing try here.

Aesop's Fables

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

Resumed Identity by Ambrose Bierce

A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins
The Idiots by Joseph Conrad
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane
The Last Lesson by Alphonse Daudet
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Boscombe Valley Mystery (Sherlock Holmes) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Copper Beeches (Sherlock Holmes) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Field Bazaar (Sherlock Holmes) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sussex Vampire (Sherlock Holmes) bt Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Final Problem (Sherlock Holmes) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure Of Charles Augustus Milverton by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Brer Rabbit and the Tar-Baby by Joel Chandler Harris
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
A School Story by M. R. James
The Dancing Partner by Jerome K. Jerome
A Little Cloud by James Joyce
How the Leopard Got His Spots by Rudyard Kipling
The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence
A Wicked Woman by Jack London
Rain by W. Somerset Maughan
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
The Avenger by Thomas de Quincey
Hunter Quartermain's Story by H. Rider Haggard
Long Odds by H. Rider Haggard
The Music on the Hill by Saki
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (simplified by C and M. Lamb)
Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

The Valley of Spiders by H. G. Wells

A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf

Manual of Psychomagic by
Alejandro Jodorowsky

Psychomagic by Alejandro
Jodorowsky

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