World Short Stories

The international masters of the short story — Chekhov and Maupassant, Poe and Tagore — the form that crosses every border.

The globe in a few pages each

In this collection

• My Cousin Fanny
• Battleground
• Little Mothers
• Songs for Parents: Independence
• An East-Side Ramble
• Lightning
• A Song of Poppies
• Journey Through the Family
• Gentle Breathing
• Coming Across
• One of Aesop's Fables
• Pedro Salvadores
• The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit
• Slightly Mixed
• The Odyssey of Sam Meecham
• Dead Man's Plack
• The Man with the Watches
• The Incomparable Lady, a Story of China with a Moral
• A Hope
• Leila, Book V
• Starlight Lake
• The Passionate Friends
• The Haunted Room
• Roach Hole
• The Light
• A Goodly Life
• An Entertaining History Of Tom Thumb
• The Deep Well
• The Enlightenments of Pagett, M. P
• Sausage Day
• Miss Ying-Ning; or, the Laughing Girl
• Little Chu
• The Magnanimous Girl
• Miss Lien-Hsiang
• The Performing Mice
• A Dwarf
• The King
• The Flower Nymphs
• Ta-Nan in Search of his Father
• The Quarrelsome Brothers
• The Young Gentleman who couldn't Spell
• The Sisters
• The Master Thief
• Death by Laughing
• Playing at Hanging
• The Virtuous Daughter-In-Law
• The Country of the Cannibals
• The Lo-Ch‘a Country and the Sea-Market
• The Fighting Cricket
• The Princess of the Tung-T‘Ing Lake
• The Boat-Girl Bride
• The Two Brides
• Theft of the Peach
• Killing a Serpent
• Mr. Tung; or, Virtue Rewarded
• The "Mirror and Listen" Trick
• The Fortune-Hunter Punished
• The Doctor
• The Great Rat
• Wolves
• Fêng-Shui
• The Hidden Treasure
• The Boatmen of Lao-Lung
• The Incorrupt Official
• Little Louise
• The Path to the Cemetery
• At the Prophet's
• How Jappe Fought do Escobar
• Disorder and Early Sorrow

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