The Canterville Ghost
The Canterville Ghost is a short story that ingeniously combines humor, the supernatural, and social criticism. The story recounts the arrival of the Otis family, practical and modern Americans, at the old...
Literature - Short Stories
Gothic Tales
Although it was undoubtedly Sherlock Holmes who brought him fame and a place in the history of literature, Arthur Conan Doyle felt somewhat annoyed by this absolute identification with detective fiction: in...
Christmas Stories
A collection of stories centered on Christmas and reflections on the human condition, generosity, and redemption. Among the best-known tales are A Christmas Carol, which narrates the transformation of the...
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gen.
In The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., Washington Irving affectionately and playfully portrays the city of his birth, blending chronicle, satire, and nostalgic evocation. Throughout its pages, he...
A Country Doctor
The fourteen stories that make up A Country Doctor showcase Kafka’s literary genius. They are very short, carefully crafted pieces—brief snapshots of situations left to the reader's interpretation, although...
The Sugar Kremlin
Sorokin is one of the most renowned contemporary Russian novelists. The Sugar Kremlin is a collection of short stories and novellas, almost all linked by a small sugar figurine of the Kremlin.
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The Trouble with Happiness
The twenty-one stories that make up this book share a common theme: family and generational crises. The content reflects well the oxymoron in the Spanish title. In this sense, they can sometimes feel...
Windflower
We encounter a Girón whose years “are no longer for joking with the other life,” as Cervantes said, and perhaps for this reason he comes across as quite gentle in his observations, without harsh value...
Signals
Of the twenty-one stories that make up the book, nine had been published in the two previous volumes of short stories (The Same Place, the Same Things and Everything That Matters), which include twelve...
Tracy's Tiger
Thomas Tracy had a very special friend: a tiger that only he could see… although it was actually a black panther. This mysterious companion followed him everywhere, as if it were part of his imagination....