Free printable short stories for seniors
Orwell, George ‘The Shooting of an Elephant’ (c. Norris, Frank ‘Two Hearts That Beat as One’ (c. Nesbit, Edith ‘Archibald the Unpleasant’ (c. Marquez, Gabriel Garcia ‘Eyes of a Blue Dog’ (c. Mansfield, Katherine ‘The Singing Lesson’ (c. Mansfield, Katherine ‘The Ideal Family’ (c. Mansfield, Katherine ‘The Garden Party’ (c. Kipling, Rudyard ‘How the Leopard got his Spots’ (c. ‘The Man Who Did Not Believe In Luck’ (c. Irving, Washington ‘The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow’ (c. Irving, Washington ‘The Birds of Spring’ (c. Irving, Washington ‘Conspiracy of the Cocked Hats’ (c. Hawthorne, Nathaniel ‘The Ambitious Guest’ (c. Hawthorne, Nathaniel ‘The Wedding-Knell’ (c. Harte, Bret ‘Who Was My Quiet Friend?’ (c. Harte, Bret ‘An Heiress of a Red Dog’ (c. Hardy, Thomas ‘The Grave by the Handpost’ (c. Gissing, George ‘The Salt of the Earth’ (c. Gissing, George ‘The House Of Cobwebs’ (c. Greene, Graham ‘The End of the Party’ ( c. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ (c. Gaskell, Elizabeth ‘An Accursed Race’ (c. 3000 words)įreeman, Mary ‘A New England Nun’ (c. 1500 words)įlaubert, Gustave ‘The Dance of Death’ (c. 3000 words)įield, Eugene ‘Death and the Soldier’ (c. 17,000 words)įield, Eugene ‘Daniel and the Devil’ (c. 1500 words)Įliot, George ‘Brother Jacob’ (c. 6500 words)Įggleston, Edward ‘Adventures in Alaska’ (c. 3000 words)Įggleston, Edward ‘A Basement Story’ (c. 3000 words)ĭostoyevsky, Fyodor ‘The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man’ (c. 2000 words)ĭahl, Roald ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ (c. 4000 words)ĭickens, Charles ‘The Child’s Story’ (c. 2500 words)ĭickens, Charles ‘The Baron of Grogswig’ (c. 4000 words)ĭickens, Charles ‘The Ghost of Art’ (c. 2000 words)ĭickens, Charles ‘Down with the Taid’ (c. 4500 words))ĭickens, Charles ‘Criminal Courts’ (c. 19,000 words)ĭickens, Charles ‘The Black Veil’ (c. 13,000 words)ĭe Quincey, Thomas ‘The Avenger’ (c.
7000 words)ĭe Quincey, Thomas ‘Love-Charm’ (c. 3500 words)ĭe Mille, James ‘The Artist of Florence’ (c. 1500 words) Dĭefoe, Daniel ‘The Apparition of Mrs Veal’ (c. 8500 words)Ĭrane, Stephen ‘A Desertion’ (c. 4500 words)Ĭonrad, Joseph ‘An Anarchist’ (c. 5500 words)Ĭollins, Willie ‘A Fair Penitent’ (c.
2500 words)Ĭhekhov, Anton ‘An Avenger’ (c. 4000 words)Ĭhekhov, Anton ‘An Actor’s End’ (c. 2000 words)Ĭhekhov, Anton ‘About Love’ (c. 7000 words) CĬhekhov, Anton ‘The Lottery Ticket’ (c. 4500 words)īrown, Alice ‘The End of All Living’ (c. 1500 words)īrown, Alice ‘The Advocate’ (c. 3000 words)īierce, Ambrose ‘Oil of Dog’ (c. 6500 words)īierce, Ambrose ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek’ (c. 1000 words)īalzac, Honore de ‘The Devil’s Heir’ (c. 6000 words)īalzac, Honore de ‘Innocence’ (c. 1000 words)īalzac, Honore de ‘The Conscript’ (c. 500 words)īaldwin, James ‘The Endless Tale’ (c. 500 words)īaldwin, James ‘Doctor Goldsmith’ (c. 1000 words)īaldwin, James ‘Arnold Winkelried’ (c. 500 words)īaldwin, James ‘Antonio Canova’ (c. 500 words)īaldwin, James ‘Casablanca’ (c. 500 words)īaldwin, James ‘The Bell of Atri’ (c. 500 words)īaldwin, James ‘Bruce and the Spider’ (c. 1000 words)Īde, George ‘The Juvenile and Mankind’ (c. 1500 words)Īde, George ‘The Divine Spark’ (c. 500 words)Īde, George ‘The Collision’ (c. Thank you.Īnderson, Sherwood ‘The Dumb Man’ (c. Please do consider supporting us in whatever way you can, so we can maintain the work we do. We’re also a paying market, publishing brilliant new work of fiction and non-fiction. That’s because we’re a very small, but passionate team who spend hundreds of hours curating resources such as these classic short stories. Recently added stories will be fund at the top of the page.Īiken, Conrad ‘Silent Snow, Secret Snow’ (online read: c. In 2020 we’ll be adding a wide range of new stories to read online. Short story writers are listed alphabetically.
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