Ambleside Online: Short Stories

We are in the process of refining our list of short stories, so this list may change.

Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=HawYoun.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1
My Kinsman, Major Molineux by Nathaniel Hawthorne http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/mm.html
The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol http://www.geocities.com/short_stories_page/gogolovercoat.html
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe http://www.geocities.com/short_stories_page/gogolovercoat.html
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/bartleby/
The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoevsky http://www.bigeye.com/broskara.htm
Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.1598/
A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert http://www.bibliomania.com/0/5/136/344/8571/1/frameset.html
How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy http://www.katinkahesselink.net/other/tolstoy.html
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/projects/price/frog.htm
Miss Tempy's Watchers by Sarah Orne Jewett http://www.bibliomania.com/0/5/115/278/15706/1/frameset.html
The Open Boat by Stephen Crane http://www.bibliomania.com/0/5/146/387/18209/1/frameset.html
The Dead by James Joyce http://www.mendele.com/WWD/WWDdead.plain.html
The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster http://brighton.ncsa.uiuc.edu/%7Eprajlich/forster.html
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/6821/thurber.html
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7Edrbr/wf_rose.html
Barn Burning by William Faulkner http://www.nku.edu/%7Epeers/barnburning.htm
Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald http://gutenberg.net.au/fsf/BABYLON%20REVISITED.html
Why I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty http://art-bin.com/art/or_weltypostoff.html
Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor http://www.geocities.com/cyber_explorer99/oconnorconverge.html
A & P by John Updike http://www.tiger-town.com/whatnot/updike/
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. http://centre.telemanage.ca/links.nsf/articles/481D5B5D819567AC85256A38000A150F
Ransom of Red Chief by O Henry http://www.online-literature.com/o_henry/1041


If you need more stories, here are two resources, but not all stories will be suitable for all students:
Twenty Great American Short Stories http://www.amlit.com/twentyss/chap0.html
Hundreds of short stories at Bibliomania http://www.bibliomania.com/0/5/frameset.html