Lawyer Tom Brice has always fancied himself as something of a sleuth, and when he overhears a violent encounter in an office nearby he gets the chance to put his detective skills...

“Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil. That road goes down and down.” A rich, old man has been mysteriously...

”Mother had the gripe and clutch of poverty upon her face, upon her figure, and not least of all upon her voice.”After a traumatic childhood spent locked in a cellar, the...

It usually takes somebody already familiar with the piece or its author, or perhaps a bride-to-be who went a little too deep down the Google rabbit hole, to whip up much attention...

Instrumental in revisioning the potential of the short story form, Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Bliss and Other Stories’ captures the accuracy of raw emotion and social...

One night after a long day of ruler's duties, the young Tsar is visited in his sleep by a mysterious man whom he has never seen before. This man takes him on a dream journey to...

We hear it all the time - Charles Dickens invented what we think of as a traditional Christmas. In this collection of short stories, he proves this fact. Vivid images of plum...

Considered an enduring classic, ‘Budgetary Control’ sees McKinsey put years of practical accounting experience down on paper. One of the pioneers of ‘management theory,’...

“The village street was like most other village streets: wide for its height, silent for its size, and drowsy in the dullest degree.”In Tom Tiddlers Ground – the name of an...

“The Furnished Room” is a short story about love and dedication, about exhaustion and despair. A young man is in search for a girl he fell in love with. He rents a room near...