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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is one of Mark Twain’s best-known humorous short stories. It was first published in The Saturday Press on […] Read More
Category: C1-C2 Stories for Advanced Learners
The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a landmark mystery story by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1841. The story is […] Read More
The Rocking-Horse Winner The Rocking-Horse Winner is a famous short story by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1926. Lawrence was an important English writer […] Read More
The Garden-Party is a celebrated short story by Katherine Mansfield, one of the most influential short-story writers of the early twentieth century. The story was […] Read More
“Young Goodman Brown” is one of the best-known short stories by American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. First published in 1835, the story explores important themes such […] Read More
The Open Boat is a powerful short story by the American writer Stephen Crane, first published in 1897. The story was inspired by Crane’s own […] Read More
The Lady, or the Tiger? is one of the most memorable short stories by the American writer Frank R. Stockton. First published in 1882, the […] Read More
The Lady with the Dog is one of the best-known short stories by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov. First published in 1899, the story is […] Read More
A Christmas Carol is one of the most enduring Christmas stories ever written. First published in 1843, Charles Dickens’s famous novella tells the story of […] Read More
“The Lottery Ticket” is a short story by the famous Russian writer Anton Chekhov, one of the most influential figures in world literature. Chekhov was […] Read More
“About Love” is a thoughtful and psychologically rich short story by the great Russian writer Anton Chekhov. First published in the late nineteenth century, the […] Read More
The Kiss is a short story by the Russian writer and playwright Anton Chekhov, one of the most influential literary figures of the nineteenth century. […] Read More
“Araby” by James Joyce is a short but deeply atmospheric story about youthful desire, romantic idealism, imagination, and the painful moment when a dream meets […] Read More
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant is one of the most famous short stories in French literature. First published in 1884 under the original French […] Read More
“August Heat” is a short supernatural mystery story by the English writer W. F. Harvey. First published in the early twentieth century, the story has […] Read More
The Last Leaf is one of the best-known short stories by the American writer O. Henry, the pen name of William Sydney Porter. Published in […] Read More
A Rose for Emily is one of the best-known short stories by the American writer William Faulkner. First published in 1930, the story has remained […] Read More
The Dead is a celebrated short story by the Irish writer James Joyce. It was published in 1914 as the final story in his collection […] Read More
The Signal-Man is a classic Gothic short story by Charles Dickens, first published in 1866 as part of the Christmas edition of All the Year […] Read More
Vanka is a moving short story by the celebrated Russian writer Anton Chekhov. First published in 1886, the story offers a powerful portrayal of childhood […] Read More