Featuring Literary Classics & Short Stories
American Literature has been providing short stories and classic novels since 1997. We enourage you to enjoy The Short Story of the Day and other features of this site . . .
- Twenty Great American Short Stories
*** Read the Short Story of the Day *** - Collected works listed by author
HundredsTHOUSANDS of Short Stories- A Collection of Favorite Short Stories
- Young Readers' Library
Short Stories for Children, including Aesop's Fables - Shakespeare Library
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- Moby Dick or, The Whale - Herman Melville
- Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
- Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- My Antonia - Willa Cather
- The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
- Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
- The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain
- The Call of the Wild - Jack London
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
- The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
- Windesburg Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
- The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allen Poe
- Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
- The Secret Garden - Frances Hodges Burnett
- O Pioneers! - Willa Cather
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
- The House of Seven Gables - by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Log of a Cowboy - by Andy Adams
- Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
- In a Hollow of the Hills - Bret Harte
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Abraham Lincoln Texts (first entry in history section) The Holy Bible, King James Version - *