American Literature

Recommended

Short Stories

The Ransom of Red Chief

To Build a Fire

The Open Window

The Necklace

Vanka

The Cloak

The Gift of the Magi

Lazarus

Split Cherry Tree

The Monkey's Paw

Rocking-Horse Winner

Ward No. 6

The Last Leaf

Welcome to the American Literature. This site features short stories and classic books (American and otherwise). Please feel free to start your exploration from one of the collections below:


Twenty Great American Short Stories

Favorite Short Story Collections

Young Readers Library

Children's Library (includes Aesops Fables)

William Shakespeare


You are also invited to explore the library by searching for titles from you favorite authors.

Adams, Andy Emerson, Ralph Waldo Parker, Dorothy
Alcott, Louisa May Ferber, Edna Paterson, Andrew Barton
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey Fitzgerald, F. Scott Peattie, Elia W.
Alger, Horatio Flaubert, Gustave Poe, Edgar Allen
Altsheler, Joseph A. Foote, Mary Hallock Post, Melville Davisson
Andersen, Hans Christian Forster, E.M. Pushkin, Alexsandr
Anderson, Sherwood Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins Quiller-Couch, Arthur
Andreyev, Leonid N. Gissing, George Richards, Laura E.
Arthur, T.S. Glaspell, Susan Rinehart, Mary Roberts
Austen, Jane Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich Roe, Edward Payson
Authors, Anonymous Grey, Zane Shakespeare, William
Balzac, Honore de Harte, Bret Shaw, Irwin
Barbour, Ralph Henry Hawthorne, Nathaniel Shelley, Mary
Barr, Robert Henry, O. Sinclair, Upton
Barrie, James M. Hesse, Herman Stephenson, Carl
Baum, Frank L. Hughes, Langston Stevenson, Robert Louis
Beach, Rex Ellingwood Hunter, Evan Stockton, Frank
Bennett, Arnold Huxley, Aldous Stoker, Bram
Bierce, Ambrose Irving, Washington Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Blackwood, Algernon Jackson, Shirley Stuart, Jesse
Bronte, Charlotte Jacobs, W. W. Swift, Jonathan
Bronte, Emily James, Henry Syrett, Netta
Burnett, Frances Hodgson Jewett, Sarah Orne Thackeray, William Makepeace
Burroughs, Edgar Rice Joyce, James Thomas, Dylan
Carroll, Lewis Kafka, Franz Thoreau, Henry David
Cather, Willa Sibert Kipling, Rudyard Tolstoy, Leo
Chekhov, Anton Lardner, Ring Trollope, Anthony
Chesnutt, Charles W. Lawrence, D.H. Twain, Mark
Chopin, Kate Lawson, Henry Tzu, Sun
Christie, Agatha Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan Van Dyke, Henry
Cloete, Stuart Lewis, Sinclair Verne, Jules
Connell, Richard London, Jack Waddington, Patrick
Conrad, Joseph Lovecraft, H. P. Wallace, Edgar
Cooper, James Fenimore Mansfield, Katherine Washington, Booker T.
Crane, Stephen Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Wells, H.G.
Dahl, Roald Maugham, William Somerset Wharton, Edith
Davis, Richard Harding Maupassant, Guy de White, E.B.
Dawson, Fielding Melville, Herman White, Stewart Edward
Defoe, Daniel Merimee, Prosper Wiggin, Kate Douglas
Dell, Ethel M. Munro (SAKI), H.H. Wilde, Oscar
Dickens, Charles Norris, Frank Williams, William Carlos
Douglass, Frederick Norris, Kathleen Wodehouse, P. G.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan O'Flaherty, Liam Wolff, Tobias
Dreiser, Theodore O'Keefe, James Woolf, Virginia
Dumas, Alexandre Orwell, George Yonge, Charlotte M.
Dunbar, Alice Page, Thomas Nelson Zola, Emile
Eliot, George

The original American Literature "Archive" page can be found here.


in memory of ~ Aaron Ezis ~ 1967 - 2004