The Short Story America Classics Library features hundreds of stories, by American and World authors. From familiar favorites to those you may not have discovered yet, all of these tales are well worth reading, remembering, studying or discussing with friends or classmates. Some longer stories like Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage," Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," Kafka's "The Metamorphosis," and many others are here. Even Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" are here in the Classics Library, for your convenience. All stories in the Classics Library are in PDF format for your printing convenience, whether for bedtime reading or for highlighting and margin notes in the classroom or reading club. There is even great philosophical literature like Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Emerson's "Self-Reliance" and Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" on the "shelves" of the Classics Library.

     
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1860 - 1935
The Yellow Wallpaper  
       
 
Susan Glaspell
1876 - 1948
A Jury Of Her Peers | At Twilight | One of Those Impossible Americans  
       
 
Frances E. W. Harper
1825 - 1911
Iola Leroy | Trial And Triumph  
       
 
Bret Harte
1836 - 1902
Tennessee's Partner | The Luck Of Roaring Camp | The Outcasts Of Poker Flat  
       
 
Joel Chandler Harris
1845 - 1908
Br'er Rabbit And The Tar Baby  
       
 
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804 - 1864
My Kinsman, Major Molineux | Rappaccini's Daughter | Roger Malvin's Burial | The Ambitious Guest | The Maypole Of Merry Mount | The Minister's Black Veil | Young Goodman Brown  
       
 
Langston Hughes
1902 - 1967
Thank You, Ma'am  
       
 
Washington Irving
1783 - 1859
Rip Van Winkle | The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow  
       
 
Andrew Jackson
1767 - 1845
Bank Bill Veto Message Of 1832  
       
 
Henry James
1843 - 1916
Daisy Miller | The Jolly Corner  
       
 
Thomas Jefferson
11743 - 1826
The Declaration Of Independence  
       
 
Ring Lardner
1885 - 1937
Horseshoes  
       
 
Abraham Lincoln
1809 - 1865
The Gettysburg Address | The House Divided | Second Inaugural Address  
       
 
Jack London
1876 - 1916
A Curious Fragment | A Daughter Of The Aurora | A Day's Lodging | A Goboto Night | A Hyperborean Brew | All Gold Cañon | A Night's Swim In Yeddo Bay | A Nose For The King | Aloha OE | Amateur Night | An Adventure In The Upper Sea | An Odyssey Of The North | An Old Soldiers Story | And 'Frisco Kid Came Back | At The Rainbow's End | Bald Face | Bâtard | Brown Wolf | Bunches Of Knuckles | By The Turtles Of Tasman | Chris Farrington, Able Seaman | Chun Ah Chun | Created He Them | Demetrios Contos | Dutch Courage | Finis | Flush Of Gold | God Of His Fathers | Goliah | Good-Bye, Jack | Grit Of Women | In A Far Country | In The Forests Of The North | In Yeddo Bay | Jan, The Unrepentant | Just Meat | Keesh, Son Of Keesh | Koolau The Leper | Like Argus Of  The Ancient Times | Li-Wan, The Fair | Local Color | Lost Face | Love Of Life | Mauki | Make Westing | Moon-Face | Nam-Bok, The Unveracipus | Negore, The Coward | Old Baldy | On The Makaloa Mat | The Apostate | The Banks Of The Sacramento | The Benefit Of The Doubt | The Bones Of Kahekili | The Captain Of The Susan Drew | The Chinago | The Death Of Lingoun | The Devils Of Fuatino | The Dream Of Debs | The End Of the Story | The Enemy Of All The World | The Eternity Of Forms | The Faith Of Men | The Feathers Of The Sun | The "Francis Spaight" | The "Fuzziness" Of Hoockla-Heen | The Great Interrogation | The Handsome Cabin Boy | The Heathen | The Hobo And The Fairy | The House Of Pride | The Hussy | The Inevitable White Man | The Jokers Of New Gibbon | The Kanaka Surf | The King Of Mazy May | The King Of The Greeks | The Law Of Life | The League Of Old Men | The Leopard Man's Story | The Lost Poacher | The Madness Of John Harned | The Man On The Other Bank | The Marriage To Lit-Lit | The Master Of Mystery | The Meat | The Men Of Forty-Mile | The Mexican | The Minions Of Midas | The Night-Born | The One Thousand Dozen | The Red One  | The Sunlanders | To Build A Fire | V. Charley's Coup  
       
 
H. P. Lovecraft
1890 - 1937
Azathoth | Beyond The Wall Of Sleep | Celephais | Cool Air | Dagon | Dreams In The Witchhouse | Ex Oblivione | Facts Concerning The Late Arthur Jermyn And His Family | From Beyond | He | Herbert West: Reanimator | Hypnos | Ibid | Imprisoned With The Pharaos | In The Vault | Memory | Nyarlathotep | Pickman's Model | Polaris | The Alchemist | The Beast In The Cave | The Book | The Call Of Cthulhu | The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward | The Cats Of Ulthar | The Colour Out Of Space | The Descendant | The Doom That Came To Sarnath | The Dream Quest Of Unknown Kadath | The Dunwich Horror | The Evil Clergyman | The Festival | The Haunter Of The Dark | The Horror At Red Hook | The Hound | The Lurking Fear | The Moon-Bog | The Music Of Erich Zann | The Nameless City | The Other Gods | The Outsider | The Picture In The House | The Quest Of Iranon | The Rats In The Wall | The Shadow Out Of Time | The Shadow Over Innsmouth | The Shunned House | The Silver Key | The Statement Of Randolph Carter | The Strange High House In The Mist | The Street | The Temple | The Terrible Old Man | The Tomb | The Transition Of Juan Romero | The Tree | The Unnamable | The Whisperer In The Darkness | The White Ship | The Thing On The Doorstep | The Very Old Folk | What The Moon Brings  
       
       
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