Short Stories

[knightss]

Hey, I just wanted to send you guys the link of this site i found. It had a lot of great short stories from Joyce to Dostoevsky.

(check out Araby by Joyce if you get the chance, awesome short story)

http://fiction.eserver.org/short/

[knightss]

P.S. I just realized that The Happy Prince by Wilde is on there too. That's one of my all time favorite short stories. Read it if you get the chance.

[Dori]

I think the only one I've read on that site is The Cask of Amontillado by Poe. I'll make sure to check out Araby and The Happy Prince when I get the chance. Thanks for the recommendation .

[knightss]

I think the only one I've read on that site is The Cask of Amontillado by Poe. I'll make sure to check out Araby and The Happy Prince when I get the chance. Thanks for the recommendation .

i love the cask of amontillado! it's probably my favorite short story.

[Dori]

I think the only one I've read on that site is The Cask of Amontillado by Poe. I'll make sure to check out Araby and The Happy Prince when I get the chance. Thanks for the recommendation .

i love the cask of amontillado! it's probably my favorite short story.

It's mine too. I also love Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart and The Sphinx. I recommend them both if you ever get the chance.

[Dori]

I finally read The Happy Prince last night. I'm reading it for another 'Book of the Month' that I am participating in (on http://www.online-literature.com). I loved it! Another short story I enjoyed was The Nightingale and the Rose by Wilde.

I'm currently reading Wilde's complete short fiction, so further comments and/or recommendations are inevitable!

[sleepydumpling]

Thanks for the link Derek, I love a good short story!

[Dori]

Has anyone read any of the short stories by Anton Chekhov? I read The Confession by Chekhov and thought it was really good. I will look more into his stories tonight.

[book_reader]

Thanks for the link. I read The Happy Prince just now and loved it.

[Dori]

I recommend two more short stories: "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne and "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce. Both are excellent.

[Bighuey]

I found this thing buried in the vaults. My favorite short stories are;
John Mortenson's Funeral-Ambrose Bierce
Dogstar-Arthur C. Clarke
The Outsider-H.P. Lovecraft
The Terror-Arthur Machen
Hop-Frog-Poe
The Homecoming-Ray Bradbury
The Valley of Fear-Conan Doyle
Young Goodman Brown-Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Willows-Algernon Blackwood
Worms of the Earth-Robert E. Howard
Wings in the Night-Robert E. Howard
The Dark Eidolon-Clark Ashton Smith
Cold Equation-Tom Godwin
Idle Days on the River Yann-Lord Dunsany
I could go on for pages, these are just a few.

[DATo]

Just thought I'd mention a few of my favorite short story writers and some of their work. (These stories can be found and read online by going to http://www.online-literature.com and clicking on "Author" in the main menu at the top as already mentioned by Dori.) This is my favorite online literature site.

The Open Window by H. H. Munro (aka 'Saki') is a story about a quasi-supernatural event unfolding before a neurotic and easily frightened man. VERY funny story, as is all Munro's work, with one of the great twist endings which are Saki's trademark.

A Coward by Guy de Maupassant is a story about a man who is to engage in a duel at dawn. Another twist ending. Maupassant is an excellent short story writer and I would encourage you to read more of his stories.

After Twenty Years (Found under the collection title of The Four Million after clicking on the author's name at the website mentioned above) by O'Henry (real name: William Sydney Porter) is the story of two best friends who part but agree to meet at the same street corner twenty years later. Again ... a marvelous twist.

At this same site are the complete collections of the three authors mentioned above plus the complete collections of other great short story writers like P. G. Wodehouse and Anton Checkhov. You will also find that many well known novelists were also writers of short stories. By checking the menu to the left of the page at each author's section you will find the author's entire life work broken down by type ie. short story, novel, poetry ect.

[Fran]

@DATo
Thanks for that link ..... The Open Window is probably my favorite short story (so much in so little space).
Even though I have a book of Checkhov short stories I downloaded them also from Gutenberg & I have them on my IPod for when I go walking, they are the perfect length for a walk.

[Bighuey]

Saki wrote some great stuff. As did Maupassant and O Henry. Ive got the complete O Henry collection in first editions, Ive read the Four Million but havent read much else. Another good short story writer was Balzac.

[DATo]

Goodday Fran and Huey !!!

Glad you like the site Fran. I really was floored by The Open Window when I first read it long ago. I immediately fell in love with Saki's writing style and creative genius. I did not know who Saki was, nor had I any idea of how he was manipulating me when I read that story. I had been taking the story in with total objectivity as a horror genre story until the very end. The last few lines were like getting a bucket of ice water dumped over my head ... it was an exhilarating moment resulting in an absolutely GREAT effect!!! I think his picture on that site speaks volumes about his writing personality *LOL*

Bighuey, I've only read three of Balzac's novelettes but I have always been intrigued by the concept of the larger work of which they are a part - Le Comedie Humaine or, The Human Comedy. It is my understanding that all of the individual 100 stories share some peripheral connection, and characters sometimes appear in one story as a main character and in others as supporting characters. I find that device fascinating. It gives the illusion of a sort of literary world landscape. It is possible that Pratchette and Fforde borrowed from Balzac with a similar construct.