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The Yellow Wallpaper (original title: The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story) is a 6,000-word short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental. Presented in the first...

After Dark is a collection of six short stories by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1856. It was the author's first collection of short stories. Five of the stories were previously published in Household Words, a magazine edited by Charles Dickens. The stories are linked by a narrative framework. At the beginning and end of the book are "Leaves from Leah's Diary": William Kerby, a travelling...

Spinning-Wheel Stories includes: Grandma's Story  Tabby's Table-cloth Eli's Education Onawandah Little Things  The Banner of Beaumanoir  Jerseys; or, the Girl's Ghost  The Little House in the Garden  Daisy's Jewel-box, and How She filled it  Corny's Catamount  The Cooking-Class  The Hare and the Tortoise 

Lulu's Library, Volume III includes: Recollections of My Childhood A Christmas Turkey, and How It Came The Silver Party The Blind Lark Music and Macaroni The Little Red Purse Sophie's Secret Dolly's Bedstead Trudel's Siege

On Picket Duty, And Other Tales includes: On picket duty The king of clubs and the queen of hearts The cross on the old church tower The death of John

The highly influential author Louisa May cott wrote the one of the most famous books, A Modern Cinderella Or, The Little Old Shoe And Other Stories. This literary work is considered to be one of the best works of not only the period, but of all time. The book would later go on to be translated into hundreds of languages, distributed worldwide, and come to be part of popular culture for decades,...

Mosses from an Old Manse is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846. The collection includes several previously-published short stories and was named in honor of The Old Manse where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage. The first edition was published in 1846.

Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The first was published in the spring of 1837, and the second in 1842. The stories had all been previously published in magazines and annuals, hence the name.  Hawthorne was encouraged by friend Horatio Bridge to collect these previously anonymous stories; Bridge offered $250 to cover the risk of the...

Soldiers Three is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. The three soldiers of the title are Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris, who had also appeared previously in the collection Plain Tales from the Hills. The current version, dating from 1899 and more fully titled Soldiers Three and other stories, consists of three sections which each had previously received separate publication in...

The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales (published 1888) is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. The Phantom 'Rickshaw After an affair with a Mrs. Agnes Keith-Wessington in Simla, the narrator, Jack, repudiates her and eventually becomes engaged to Miss Kitty Mannering. Yet Mrs. Wessington continually reappears in Jack's life, begging him to reconsider, insisting that it was...

The Prussian Officer tells of a Captain and his orderly. Having wasted his youth gambling, the captain has been left with only his military career, and though he has taken on mistresses throughout his life, he remains single. His young orderly is involved in a relationship with a young woman, and the captain, feeling sexual tension towards the young man, prevents the orderly from engaging in the...

Indian Tales (1890) - A collection of tales inspired by Kipling's days living and working in India.

Plain Tales from the Hills (published 1888) is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, "eight-and-twenty", according to Kipling's Preface, were initially published in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, Punjab, British India, between November 1886 and June 1887. "The remaining tales are, more or less, new." (Kipling had worked as a journalist for the...

Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. It can count both as historical fantasy – since some of the stories told of the past have clear magical elements, and as contemporary fantasy – since it depicts a magical being active and practising his magic in the England of...

Life's Handicap, Being Stories of Mine Own People was published in 1891. Most of the stories had previously appeared in periodicals. Table of Contents: Preface The Lang Men o' Larut Reingelder and the German Flag The Wandering Jew Through the Fire The Finances of the Gods The Amir's Homily Jews in Shushan The Limitations of Pambe Serang Little Tobrah Bubbling Well Road "The City of...

Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling Table of Contents: An Habitation Enforced The Recall Garm — A Hostage The Power of the Dog The Mother Hive The Bees and the Flies With the Night Mail The Four Angels A Deal in Cotton The New Knighthood The Puzzler The Puzzler Little Foxes Gallio’s Song The House Surgeon The Rabbi’s Song

The Bridge-Builders (1893) by the British writer Rudyard Kipling is an Indian story about the building of the "Kashi Bridge." The story mainly displays Kipling's mastery of the technical details and knowledge related to bridge building. His biographers agree that the author acquired this knowledge through interacting with British civil engineers who were assigned by the Crown to build numerous...

A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling. Table of Contents As Easy as A.B.C. MacDonough’s Song Friendly Brook The Land In the Same Boat ‘Helen all Alone’ The Honours of War The Children The Dog Hervey The Comforters The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat The Press In The Presence Jobson’s Amen Regulus A Translation The Edge of the...

Under the Deodars (published 1888) is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Table of Contents: The Education of Otis Yeere At the Pit's Mouth A Wayside Comedy The Hill of Illusion A Second-rate Woman Only a Subaltern In the Matter of a Private The Enlightenments of Pagett, M. P. External links

Orientations by William Somerset Maugham, author of Liza of Lambeth, The Making of a Saint. Table of Content: The Punctiliousness of Don Sebastian A bad example De Amicitia Faith The choice of amyntas Daisy