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RandolphCarter@lemmy.world to Books@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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These are most of history's classic short stories that are currently online and in English, along with their links.

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These are most of history's classic short stories that are currently online and in English, along with their links.

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Big thanks to Project Gutenberg and The Library of Short Stories for most of these links.


Literary

#1 The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

#2 The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#3 Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemmingway

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov

To Build a Fire by Jack London

Desiree’s Baby by Kate Chopin

Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield

Araby by James Joyce

The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

Counterparts by James Joyce

The Last Leaf by O. Henry

The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

The Dead by James Joyce

The Nose by Nikolai Gogol


Sci Fi

#1 The Last Question by Isaac Asimov

#2 A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury

#3 Harrison Bergeren by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2br02b by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Nothing Equation by Tom Godwin

The Coming of the Ice by G. Peyton Wertenbaker

No Moving Parts by Murray F. Yaco


Gothic/Horror

#1 A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor

#2 The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft

#3 The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs

The White People by Arthur Machen

Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl

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  • clockwork_octopus@lemmy.world
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    So, for free books I have some links to share.

    Project Gutenberg

    Open Library

    Many Books

    LibriVox

    The Online Books Page

    Baen Books

    Standard Ebooks

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      Thanks for the links!

      • clockwork_octopus@lemmy.world
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        No worries!

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        Test comment

  • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    of the English language

    Kafka

    Chekhov

    Maupassant

    Gogol

    Huh?

    Also, is it weird that I haven’t heard of the first two writers on the list at all? And why is Poe not “literary”?

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    Thanks for posting, OP, absolute legend

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