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• Fiction
• Narrative poetry

• Nouvelles
• Novellas (Early literary form)

• Tales of the Pampas (Alfred A. Knopf, 1916), by W. H. Hudson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Under the skylights (D. Appleton, 1901), by Henry Blake Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The splendid idle forties : stories of old California (The Macmillan Comapny ;, 1902), by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, Harrison Fisher, Norwood Press, and Macmillan Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cumberland vendetta. (C. Scribner's sons, 1912), by John Fox (page images at HathiTrust)
• The second jungle book (Century Co., 1899), by Rudyard Kipling (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wolf's long howl. (H.S. Stone & Co., 1899), by Stanley Waterloo, Will Bradley, and Herbert S. Stone & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American claimant, and other stories and sketches (Harper, 1896), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Land and sea tales for scouts and guides (London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923., 1923), by Rudyard Kipling, Colt Kipling Collection (Library of Congress), and Kipling Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Many inventions. (Macmillan, 1893), by Rudyard Kipling (page images at HathiTrust)
• The monster and other stories (New York : London ; Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899., 1899), by Stephen Crane, Peter J. Solomon, and Peter Newell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Short story writing. (Ronald Press, 1928), by Mary Burchard Orvis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great modern American stories : an anthology (Boni and Liveright, 1920), by William Dean Howells and Boni & Liveright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die ersten Novellen Otto Ludwigs und ihr Verhältnis zu Ludwig Tieck ... (Druck von B. Feigenspan, 1903), by Wilhelm Greiner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Selected short stories (Charles E. Merrill company, 1914), by Claude Moore Fuess (page images at HathiTrust)
• The recreations of Christopher North [pseud.] (William Blackwood & sons, 1842), by John Wilson and William Blackwood and Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Romanische schelmennovellen. (Deutsche verlagsactiengesellschaft, 1905), by Jakob Ulrich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Girl from the marsh croft. (Doubleday, Page, 1916), by Selma Lagerlöf and Velma Swanston Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The delectable mountains (Scribner's, 1901), by Arthur Willis Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• My tussle with the devil : and other stories (I.M.Y. Company, 1918), by O. Henry, A. Houghton Pratt, O. Henry, and I.M.Y. Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• My garden of hearts : a collection of the best short stories and essays written during a long literary lifetime (The Christian Herald, Bible House, 1913), by Margaret E. Sangster and Christian Herald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The baked head : and other tales. (G.P. Putnam & Co., 1856) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Half-true tales. Stories founded on fiction. Illustrated by C. Jay Taylor. (Puck Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1891), by C. H. Augur, Charles Jay Taylor, and Keppler & Schwarzmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Africa, Stories of. (C. Scribner's sons, 1896), by Rudyard Kipling and Kipling Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Viaje á través de la estirpe y otras narraciones. (Buenos Aires, 1908), by Carlos O. Bunge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Magdalen, and other tales. (E. Moxon, 1832), by James Sheridan Knowles (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Literary box : containing the contributions of the Evelyn family, consisting of instructing and amusing tales, in prose and verse, suited to all ages (John Harris, 1824), by George Woodfall, Russell, and J. Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Touti nameh. (Cotta, 1822), by Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten, Carl Jakob Ludwig Iken, Muḥammad Qādirī, and Z̤iyāʼ al-Dīn Nakhshabī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouvelles françoises en prose du XIVe siècle : pub. d'après les manuscrits, avec une introduction et des notes (P. Jannet, 1858), by Louis Moland, Charles d' Héricault, and Charles d' Héricault (page images at HathiTrust)
• Novelle vecchie e nuove (Successori Le Monnier, 1869), by Francesco Dall'Ongaro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Merry Christmas; a Christmas present for children and youth. (Cyrus Stone, 1853), by William M. Thayer, Cyrus Stone, and Hobart and Robbins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories for children (Willis P. Hazard, 1854), by Maria Edgeworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mosses from an old manse (Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, [1854]., 1854), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales from [his] plays (Chapman, 1859), by Molière and Dacre Barrett Lennard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Main-travelled roads (Harper, 1899), by Hamlin Garland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les cent nouvelles nouvelles : suivent les cent nouvelles : contenant les cent histoires nouveaux, qui sont moult plaisans a raconter, en toutes bonnes compagnies : par maniere de joyeuseté : avec d'excellentes figures en taille-douce, graveés sur les desseins du fameux Mr. Romain de Hooge. (Chez Pierre Gaillard, 1701), by Pierre Gaillard, Jan Van Vianen, Laurens Scherm, Gilliam van der Gouwen, and Romeyn de Hooghe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The children's own story book (Copp, Clark, 1916), by Norma Bright Carson and Florence E. Bright (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The strength of the strong (Grosset & Dunlap, 1914), by Jack London (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of his life, and other romances. (Dodd, Mead & company, 1921), by Mary Cholmondeley, W. Heffer & Sons, and Mead & Company Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wind in the rose bush. (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1903), by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Maria J. Murray, and Page & Company Doubleday (page images at HathiTrust)
• The red one (The Macmillan Company, 1918), by Jack London and Macmillan Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treasure of the redwoods : and other tales (Houghton, Mifflin, 1903), by Bret Harte (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ancestors of Peter Atherly, and other tales (Houghton, Mifflin company, 1900), by Bret Harte (page images at HathiTrust)
• New faces (G.W. Dillingham Company, 1910), by Myra Kelly and Charles F. Neagle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Day-books (J. Lane ;, 1896), by Mabel E. Wotton, Patten Wilson, John Wilson and Son, Mass.) University Press (Cambridge, John Lane Company, and Mass.) Roberts Brothers (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tilen Rekar. (Slovenska matica, 1907), by Josip Regali and Josip Konstanjevec (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Melchior's dream and other tales (George Bell and Sons ..., 1886), by Juliana Horatia Ewing, Gordon Browne, Mrs. Alfred Gatty, George Bell & Sons, Chiswick Press, and C. Whittingham and Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jewett's Play day stories. (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1914), by Sarah Orne Jewett, Katharine H. Shute, Katharine H. Shute, and Annie Fields (page images at HathiTrust)
• White heron. (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1911), by Sarah Orne Jewett, Katharine H. Shute, and Katharine H. Shute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old manse and a few mosses (Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1894), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Middleway; tales of a New England village (Copeland and Day, 1897), by Kate Whiting Patch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The holy cross : and other tales. (Scribner, 1896), by Eugene Field (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of short stories; a collection for use in high schools (D. Appleton and Company, 1919), by Frederick Stuart Greene, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, W. W. Jacobs, O. Henry, Arthur Morrison, Hamlin Garland, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alphonse Daudet, Bret Harte, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Blanche Colton Williams, Jack Flanagan, and D. Appleton and Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ghetto tragedies (Macmillan, 1907), by Israel Zangwill (page images at HathiTrust)
• A fortnight of folly (Street & Smith, 1902), by Maurice Thompson, Hugh Conway, and Frederich John Fargus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lamplighter (Chapman & Hall;, 1898), by Charles Dickens, Andrew Lang, William Clowes and Sons, Charles Scribner's Sons, and Chapman and Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diēgēmata (Anestēs Kōnstantinidēs, 1897), by Dēmētrios Vikelas, Odysseas Phōkas, Jacques Rizo, Theodōros Rallēs, Geōrgios Iakōvidēs, Nikēphoros Lytras, Nikolaos Gyzēs, and Angelos Giallinas (page images at HathiTrust)
• International short stories (P. F. Collier, 1910), by Francis J. Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chaucer for children; a golden key (Chatto & Windus, 1877), by Geoffrey Chaucer, Mary Eliza Joy Haweis, and Chatto & Windus (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A niece of Snapshot Harry's, and other tales (Houghton, Mifflin company, 1903), by Bret Harte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cressy, and other tales (Houghton, Mifflin, 1896), by Bret Harte (page images at HathiTrust)
• A waif of the plains, and other tales (Houghton, Mifflin, 1896), by Bret Harte (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the desert of waiting; the legend of Camel-back Mountain. (L.C. Page & co., 1908), by Annie F. Johnston, T. M. Cleland, Plimpton Press, and L.C. Page & Company (1897-1914) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The under dog (C. Scribner's Sons, 1917), by Francis Hopkinson Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wood fire in number 3. (A.L. Burt Co., 1905), by Francis Hopkinson Smith, Alonzo Kimball, and A.L. Burt Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ethan Frome. (Scribner, 1914), by Edith Wharton, Alonzo Kimball, Scribner Press, and Charles Scribner's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Under the crust. (C. Scribner's Sons, 1909), by Thomas Nelson Page (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pleasant tales by popular authors, comprising sixty tales, with one hundred and forty pictures (Routledge, Warne & Routledge), by Fernand Gabriel Renier, Anne Renier, Warne Routledge, Son and Taylor R. Clay, and National Art Library (Great Britain). Renier Collection of Historic and Contemporary Children's Books (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Farṭunḳlṭ gold (Ṿilner farlag fun B. Ḳletsḳin, 1928), by Baruch Glasman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An Easter offering (Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1850), by Fredrika Bremer and Mary Howitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Milli fjalls og fjöru : sögur úr íslenzku sveitalífi (Bókaverzlun Guðm. Gamalíelssonar, 1910), by Benedikt Björnsson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A child's history of England, the Holly-tree inn, and other stories. (Aldine book publishing co., 1880), by Charles Dickens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transatlantic stories (Duckworth, 1926), by Paris Transatlantic review (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Love, and other stories (Macmillan Co., 1923), by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and Constance Garnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great march : post-Biblical Jewish stories (Dept. of Synagogue and School Extension of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1931), by Rose G. Lurie, Todros Geller, and Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Department of Synagogue and School Extension (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The complete works of O. Henry (Garden City Pub. Co., 1937), by O. Henry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The best ghost stories (New York : A.L. Burt, [1924], 1924), by Bohun Lynch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dawgs! : an anthology of stories about them (Garden City Publishing Company, 1925), by Charles Wright Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Land and sea tales for boys and girls (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1923), by Rudyard Kipling, Chandler Kipling Collection (Library of Congress), and Colt Kipling Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

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