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Classic Reader: Very Poor
Read the full text of the short story "Very Poor" by T.S. Arthur.
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Classic Reader: The Vicar of Azay Le Rideau
Read the full text of the short story "The Vicar of Azay-le-Rideau" by Honore de Balzac.
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Classic Reader: Victor Second
Read the full text of the short story "Victor Second" by Australian writer Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson.
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Classic Reader: The Village Convict
Read the full text of the short story "The Village Convict" by C.H. White.
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Classic Reader: The Vision of Milli the Slave
Read the full text of the short story "The Vision of Milli the Slave" by Louis Becke.
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Classic Reader: The Vision of Tom Chuff
Read the full text of the short story "The Vision of Tom Chuff" by supernatural fiction writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.
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Classic Reader: A Visit With the Doctor
Read the full text of the short story "A Visit with the Doctor" by T.S. Arthur.
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Classic Reader: Visiting as Neighbors
Read the full text of the short story "Visiting as Neighbors" by prolific author T.S. Arthur.
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Classic Reader: A Voice From the Pit
Read the full text of the short story "A Voice from the Pit" by Bernard Edward J. Capes.
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The Literary Link: Washington Irving: On Style and Purpose in Short Story
Two excerpts from Early American author Washingtom Irving about his preference for writing short works and why.
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Basic Literary Terms: The Novel and Short Story
This site has definitions of many parts of short stores including crisis, novel, short story, plot, exposition, theme, etc.
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Classic Reader: Across the Years by Eleanor H. Porter
Read a sampling of short stories by Eleanor H. Porter, who is famous for writing "Pollyanna", in "Across the Years".
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East of the Web: Ursula Wills Jones: The Time Sweepers
Full text of the short story "The Time-Sweepers" by Ursula Wills-Jones.
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Write a Goofy Story: The Sequel
In this activity, students will complete humorous fill-in-the-blank prompts. After students complete each blank, students will view an automatically-generated story that contains their sentences organized ways that will be funny.
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Write a Goofy Story #2
In this activity, each student will answer several mysteriously worded questions. After each answer is typed, an automatically-generated story will appear with details taken from their answers to the questions.
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The Critical Calvino Page
Site dedicated to Italo Calvino (1923-1985 CE), one of Italy's most famous writers. A brief biography and links to essays about and works by Calvino are included.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: Later National Literature: Pi
This encyclopedia, "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature" provided by Bartleby.com, includes some information in Book III (Later National Literature) about realism as related to the writer Poe. Find this information...
Quia
Quia: Character Traits/descriptions
This reading resource provides vocabulary words with definitions. All words are related to character development and character traits. A link to associated review activities is included.
Quia
Quia: Narrative Structure Elements
This reading resource provides vocabulary words with definitions. All words are related to the elements of narratives. A link to associated review activities is included.
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life
Maintained by the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library, this site offers the full text of Guy de Maupassant's "Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life" which includes 27 short stories. Also provided are...
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Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: The Short Story [Pdf]
A short group of exercises for students concerning the elements of a short story. Allows students to examine the major story elements, then apply those elements to a given piece of literature.
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Classic Reader: Herbert West: Reanimator by h.p. Lovecraft
Read the full text of the horror short story "Herbert West: Reanimator" by H.P. Lovecraft.
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Classic Reader: Hermann the Irascible by h.h. Munro
Read the full text of the anti-suffrage short story "Hermann the Irascible" by H.H. Munro set in England when women were still denied the opportunity to vote.