Short Stories

Monday or Tuesday

Virginia Woolf

Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day and she is popular. The mind receives a myriad impressions—trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innume...

A Sportsman's Sketches

Ivan Turgenev

Turgenev based many of these short stories on his own observations while hunting at his mother's estate at Spasskoye, where he learned of the abuse of the peasants and the injustices of the Russian system that constrained them. The frequent abuse of...

A Sportsman's Sketches

Ivan Turgenev

Turgenev based many of these short stories on his own observations while hunting at his mother's estate at Spasskoye, where he learned of the abuse of the peasants and the injustices of the Russian system that constrained them. The frequent abuse of...

The Flood

Emile Zola

L'Inondation (The Flood) is an 1880 novella by Émile Zola. Set in the village of Saint-Jory, several miles up the Garonne from Toulouse, it is the story of a family tragedy, told by its patriarch, seventy-year-old Louis Roubieu. On a beau...

Tales of Two Countries

Maksim Gorky

A volume of brief tales addressing the later work of the Russian author, the product of his visit in Capri. It is intriguing to take note of how this difference in climate changed not simply his perspective, but rather even his abstract style.  ...

Creatures That Once Were Men

Maksim Gorky

Creatures that Once Were Men" is a short story by Maxim Gorky. The story is about the residents of a special house who start a conflict with their lord, which resulting in a rather inhumane outcome.