American Literature
  • Homepage Icon
  • Authors
    • Major Authors
    • All Authors
    • Women Writers
    • Find An Author
    • Pulitzer Prize Winners
    • American Biographies
    • African American Library
    • Mystery Writers
    • Ambrose Bierce
    • Anton Chekhov
    • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
    • Edgar Allan Poe
    • O. Henry
    • H.H. Munro (SAKI)
    • Jack London
    • Kate Chopin
    • Sherwood Anderson
    • Susan Glaspell
    • Mark Twain
    • Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • Herman Melville
    • Louisa May Alcott
    • Oscar Wilde
    • Stephen Crane
    • Charles Dickens
    • Rudyard Kipling
    • Edith Wharton
  • Short Stories
    • Short Story of the Day
    • 100 Great Short Stories
    • 20 Great American Short Stories
    • Children's Stories
    • Favorite Fairy Tales
    • Short Stories for Middle School
    • Short Stories for High School
    • Teacher Resources
    • Useful Idioms
    • Study Guides
    • Mystery Stories
    • Science Fiction
    • Women Writers
    • Winter Sports Stories
    • Russian Stories
    • Morality Tales
    • 75 Short Short Stories
    • 50 Great Feel-Good Stories
    • Christmas StoriesChristmas Stories
    • Thanksgiving StoriesThanksgiving & Foodie Stories
    • Civil War Stories
    • African American Stories
    • World War I Stories
    • Gothic, Ghost, Horror & Weird Library
    • Halloween StoriesHalloween Stories
    • Dog Stories
    • Favorite Short Story Collections
    • Complete Short Story Library
  • Children
    • Short Stories for Children
    • Fairy Tales by Age
    • Jack and the Beanstalk
    • The Tale of Peter Rabbit
    • The Three Little Pigs
    • Rapunzel
    • Rumpelstiltskin
    • Grimm's Fairy Tales
    • Aesop's Fables
    • Little Red Riding Hood
    • The Velveteen Rabbit
    • Mother Goose
    • The Bogey-Beast
    • Christmas StoriesChildren's Christmas Stories
    • Thanksgiving & Food Stories
    • Children's Poems
    • The Children's Library
    • Halloween Stories for Children
    • 100s of Kids Stories
    • Pre-K Wordplay!
    • Lullabies
    • Feel-Good Children's Stories
    • American Biographies for Kids
    • Books for Young Readers
  • Favorites
    • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
    • The Gift of the Magi
    • The Little Match Girl
    • The Monkey's Paw
    • A Dark Brown Dog
    • The Story of an Hour
    • The Necklace
    • The Tell-Tale Heart
    • A New England Nun
    • The Selfish Giant
    • The Skylight Room
    • Eve's Diary
    • The Cask of Amontillado
    • To Build a Fire
    • The Lady, or the Tiger?
    • The Hanging Stranger
    • The Luck of Roaring Camp
    • Lost Hearts
    • Araby
    • A Jury of Her Peers
    • God Sees the Truth, But Waits
    • Transients in Arcadia
    • The Reluctant Dragon
    • The Lottery
    • The Split Cherry Tree
    • Thank You, M'am
  • Poets
  • Novels
    • Show All Books
    • 25 Great American Novels
    • Pulitzer Prize Novels
    • Civil War Novels
    • World War I Novels
    • Detective Novels
    • Classic Novels Library
    • Foodie Books
    • Unreliable Narrator Novels
    • Chapter Books for Young Readers
    • Moby Dick - Herman Melville
    • The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
    • The Awakening - Kate Chopin
    • My Antonia - Willa Cather
    • Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
    • Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
    • Lttle Women - Louisa May Alcott
    • The Call of the Wild - Jack London
    • Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
    • Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
    • The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
    • Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
    • Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
    • Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
    • Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  • Features
  • login
    • Login
    • Create Account
    • Privacy Policy

Short Stories by Collection & Author25 Great American Novels100 Great Short Stories, Short Stories for High School, Short Stories for Middle School, Teacher Resources

Short Stories for ChildrenBooks for Young ReadersShort Stories for Children, 20 Great American Stories, Short Short Stories, American History, 100 Great Poems, Idioms, Short Story of the Day


Children's Stories

Favorite Read Alouds

100 Great Stories

Favorite Short Stories

High School Stories

Stories for Students

Great Novels

Classic Books Library

100 Great Poems

Edna St. Vincent Millay poetry

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Short Story of the Day

Follow @amlitreader

Short Short Stories

Science Fiction Stories

Teacher Resources

Inspire Your Students


Moby Dick; or, The Whale - a novel by Herman Melville
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - a short story by Ambrose Bierce
A Dark Brown Dog / The Red Badge of Courage - by Stephen Crane
The Luck of Roaring Camp / The Outcasts of Poker Flat / Miggles - by Bret Harte
Araby / Eveline / Clay / Ulysses - by James Joyce
The Necklace / The Adopted Son / The Wreck - by Guy de Maupassant
Vanka / A Boring Story / The Cherry Orchard - by Anton Chekhov
To Build a Fire / The Call of the Wild / White Fang - by Jack London
The Story of An Hour / A Pair of Silk Stockings / The Awakening - by Kate Chopin
‹ ›

Anton Chekhov
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Susan Glaspell
Mark Twain
Edgar Allan Poe
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Herman Melville
Stephen Leacock
Kate Chopin

~ in memory of Aaron Ezis ~
copyright (c) 2020-2022 AmericanLiterature.com