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Childhood
by Graf Leo TolstoyChildhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. It is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by Boyhood and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, the book was an immediate success, ear..
Father Sergius
by Graf Leo TolstoyFather Sergiusis a short story written by Leo Tolstoy between 1890 and 1898 and first published (posthumously) in 1911. The story begins with the childhood and exceptional and accomplished youth of Prince Stepan Kasatsky. The young man is destined for great things. He discovers on the eve of his wedding that his fiancée Countess Mary Korotkova has ..
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
by Francis Scott Fitzgerald"Bernice Bobs Her Hair" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, written in 1920 and first published in the Saturday Evening Post in May of that year. It appeared shortly thereafter in the collection Flappers and Philosophers. The story concerns Bernice, a wealthy girl from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, who goes to visit her cousin Marjorie for the month ..
Flappers and Philosophers
by Francis Scott FitzgeraldFlappers and Philosophers is the first collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. It includes eight stories: "The Offshore Pirate" "The Ice Palace" "Head and Shoulders" "The Cut-Glass Bowl" "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" "Benediction" "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong" "The Four Fists"...
Dark Night's Work
by Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellA Dark Night's Work is an 1863 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published serially in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round. The word "dark" was added to the original title by Dickens against Gaskell's wishes. Dickens felt that the altered title would be more striking. The story centers on a country lawyer, Edward Wilkins, and his d..
Afterward
by Edith Wharton"Afterward" is a short story by American writer Edith Wharton. It was first published in the 1910 edition of The Century Magazine. and later reprinted in her books The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton and Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910). It is an ironic ghost story about greed and retribution. The ghost comes for one of the main characters l..
Crucial Instances
by Edith WhartonCrucial Instances is Edith Wharton's classic 1901 short story collection. The book contains a collection of seven stories, including:The Duchess at PrayerThe Angel at the GraveThe RecoveryCopy: A DialogueThe RembrandtThe Moving FingerThe Confessional..
Descent of Man and Other Stories
by Edith WhartonThis collection appeared in book form in two distinct editions, both published in 1904. The Macmillian edition had ten stories; the Scribner's edition had nine (omitting "The Letter"). The two collections also ordered the stories differently; below I use the ordering of the larger Macmillan edition. The links below go to on-line illustrated edition..