CLASSIC SHORT STORIES
One of the best ways of improving your English is to read the language. This part of our site includes complete short stories by some of the very best classic writers. All stories are complete and unabridged. Read them online or print them off and read them in bed! One new story is added to our site every month. All stories are in the public domain and now copyright free. If you're looking for a larger range of free classic English literature online, .try the English Library. Or if modern short stories are your thing try here
Resumed Identity by Ambrose Bierce
A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane
The Last Lesson by Alphonse Daudet
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Boscombe Valley Mystery (Sherlock Holmes) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Copper Beeches (Sherlock Holmes) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sussex Vampire (Sherlock Holmes) bt Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Final Problem (Sherlock Holmes) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure Of Charles Augustus Milverton by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Brer Rabbit and the Tar-Baby by Joel Chandler Harris
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
The Dancing Partner by Jerome K. Jerome
How the Leopard Got His Spots by Rudyard Kipling
The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
The Avenger by Thomas de Quincey
Hunter Quartermain's Story by H. Rider Haggard