A scholar takes up residence in the former home of a judge with a very evil reputation. He finds the place infested with rats, but it suits his purposes... until one of the rats grows too bold, and th…
On a winter day the kind and humble shoemaker Simon finds a naked man in the street. He takes off his cloth coat, wraps it around the stranger and also gives him the extra pair of boots he was carryin…
In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they wake on the morning of the twenty-seventh of June. Everything has been prepared for the town’s annual …
The Case of the Perfect Maid: A Miss Marple Short Story (Miss Marple)
When her maid asks Miss Marple to intervene in the delicate problem of her rather opinionated cousin Gladys, Miss M doesn't think much can be done. Poor Gladys, also a maid, has been accused of steali…
After devoting their energies and income for ten years to replacing a borrowed diamond necklace which they have lost, a woman and her husband learn the irony of their efforts.
Leo Tolstoy, best known for his novels, Anna Karenina and War and Peace, also wrote short stories that illuminate Christianity and the gospel. These stories, as well as his religious essays, are gaini…
THIS 44 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Master and Man and Other Parables and Tales, by Leo Tolstoy. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1417913304.
Raymond Carver’s third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another.
A short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It begins with a man walking St. Petersburg's streets while musing upon how ridiculous his life is, as well as its distinct lack of meaning or purp…
Irténiev, propriétaire terrien, est un homme sérieux, qui gère son domaine avec efficacité et rigueur. Marié à la douce et fragile Lise, romantique amoureuse qui l'idéalise, Irténiev fait de son mieux…
