Short Stories -- the ultimate collection, on CD ROM

Copyright © 2003 Richard Seltzer

Skip the explanation and go straight to the table of contents

This Web page shows the table of contents of our Short Story CD with the complete text of 3901 stories, plus interwoven collections of stories which form a single unit (such as: The Arabian Nights, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Boccaccio's Decameron, Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron, Apuleius' Golden Ass, and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg Ohio).

The internal links on this Web page will take you to the various sections of the Table of Contents, but you cannot get to the books themselves here on the Web. For that you need the CD.

The stories themselves are in the public domain. You can copy them onto your hard drive for convenience, or make an archival copy of the CD, as backup in case of damage to the original. But the collection and its index, created for your convenience, are under copyright. Please contact us first if you are interested in making copies of this CD for commercial purposes. seltzer@samizdat.com

Excerpt from review by Rochelle Caviness in Large Print Reviews:
"...Richard Seltzer has compiled a fantastic selection of short stories. This collection features a cross section of short stories from around the world...The short stories in this colleciton offer readers a unique opportunity to compare the various techniques used in crafting a masterful short story, and to experience how this literary form differs from country to country... The works contained in this collection are all works currently in the public domain... By default, this is a collection of classic short stories. These are the stories that you will most often be required to read in high school and college, because they are stories that have withstood the test of time and have emerged as stellar examples of the literary form...This is a collection that will delight readers of every ilk, with short stories that run the gamut form westerns to stories about love and faith."  The complete review

With the CD, you can open these stories by clicking on the titles in the index page with your Web browser or a recent Windows-based word processor.

Click on the geographic area to go to one of the major sections of this index page. Within each section, authors appear in alphabetical order.

Intended for use with Windows and Linux PCs and recent Macs (OS X), this CD contains 3901 stories plus collections of interwoven stories like The Arabian Nights, Canterbury Tales, and The Decameron.  The CD is available for $19 at our online store. http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat/short.html

For details about this publishing service, check the readme document. You can contact us at seltzer@samizdat.com, B&R Samizdat Express, 33 Gould St., West Roxbury, MA 02132-002. 617-469-2269.

User's Guide: Suggestions on how to get the most out of your books on CD and DVD

If you would like to have your PC (with speakers) read these texts aloud to you, while they are displayed in text on the screen, see below about the free ReadPlease software that we have included on this CD.

These books are in plain text format. You can copy them onto your hard drive for convenience, or make an archival copy of the CD, as backup in case of damage to the original.  You can open these books by clicking on the titles in this index page with your Web browser or a recent Windows-based word processor.

We publish plain text books (unencrypted) on CD and DVD, and we want to provide a simple way for customers and other interested people to share their insights into how to get the most out of this new way of reading and studying. To do so we have set up an email discussion group at Yahoo. All are welcome to join and to post here, but I'll manage this group in "moderated" style, filtering messages before they go out to the whole group, to control the volume of the messages and to make sure that they are on-topic. Tips and information that would be helpful to people you have plain text books on CD are welcome -- including examples of how you are using yours, suggestions for improvement,  suggestions for future CDs, and useful/interesting texts found on the Web that should be included in future CDs. To subscribe, go to the discussion group Web site at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/plaintextbooksoncd  or send a blank email to plaintextbooksoncd-subscribe@yahoogroups.com


Table of Contents

Intended for use with Windows and Linux PCs and recent Macs (OS X), this CD contains 3901 stories plus collections of interwoven stories like The Arabian Nights, Canterbury Tales, and The Decameron.  The CD is available for $19 at our online store. http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat/short.html

Anthologies

The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories - Old Time English, Edited by Julian Hawthorne

American Short Stories

Collections

  • Best American Humorous Short Stories
  • Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor edited by Thomas Masson, volume 4. Includes:

  • Anonymous


    Andy Adams


    Louisa Mae Alcott


    Sherwood Anderson


    T.S. Arthur


    Ambrose Bierce


    B.M. Bower (= Bertha M. Sinclair = husband of Bertrand Sinclair)


    Alice Brown


    Nicholas Carter


    Kate Chopin


    James Fenimore Cooper


    Charles Egbert Craddock


    Stephen Crane


    James Oliver Curwood


    Richard Harding Davis


    Francis A. Durivage


    F. Scott Fitzgerald


    Charlotte Perkins Gilman


    Zane Grey


    Joel Chandler Harris


    Bret Harte


    Julian Hawthorne (see also Lock and Key Library, under Anthologies)


    Nathaniel Hawthorne


    O. Henry


    Washington Irving


    Helen Hunt Jackson


    Sarah Orne Jewett


    Henry James


    Florence Finch Kelly


    Joseph Lincoln


    Jack London


    Herman Melville


    John Ames Mitchell (1845-1918)


    Frank Norris


    Edgar Allan Poe


    Eleanor Porter


    Eugenia Potts

  • Idle Hour Stories

  • Charles Roberts


    Ernest Thompson Seton


    Harriet Beecher Stowe


    Ruth McInery Stuart


    Mark Twain


    M.T.W.


    Edith Wharton


    John Greenleaf Whittier


    Mary E. Wilkins


    Owen Wister


    Arabic

    Richard Burton (translator)


    Australian

    Henry Lawson

  • Over the Slip Rails, stories including:

  • Andrew Barton `Banjo' Paterson


    Belgian

    Camille Lemonier


    Maurice Maeterlink


    British, Welsh, and Scottish

    Collections


    Anonymous


    Robert Barr (Luke Sharp)


    Arthur Christopher Benson


    Edward George Bulwer-Lytton


    Frances Hodgson Burnett


    Geoffrey Chaucer


    Wilkie Collins


    Mrs. Colman


    Joseph Conrad


    Daniel Defoe


    Charles Dickens


    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


    Maria Edgeworth


    Caradoc Evans


    G.M Fenn


    John Galsworthy


    H. Rider Haggard


    Thomas Hardy

  • Life's Little Ironies

  • Maurice Hewlett (1861-1923)


    John C. Hutcheson


    Montague Rhodes James


    Jerome K. Jerome


    Christopher Jervis


    William H.G. Kingston


    Andrew Lang


    George MacDonald


    Talbot Baines Reed


    Saki (H.H. Munro)


    Sir Walter Scott


    Robert Louis Stevenson


    William Makepeace Thackeray


    Anthony Trollope


    Horace Walpole



    Canadian

    Harriet S. Caswell


    F. Clifford Smith


    Edward William Thomson