I’m going to follow along with this list of the 1000 greatest short stories. (https://www.everywritersresource.com/1000-greatest-short-stories-time/)
And see how many I can get from Project Gutenberg.
Up to like maybe story #50.
Sometimes I also just grabbed things I was interested in.
Most of these I’ve never read.
This is the start of a maybe-project.
From “The Piazza Tales” by Herman Melville
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15859
“Bartleby the Scrivener” is the second story https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15859/15859-h/15859-h.htm
In “Three Stories & 10 Poems” by Ernest Hemingway
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59603
“Up in Michigan” https://www.gutenberg.org/files/59603/59603-h/59603-h.htm (not from the list)
From “Dubliners” by James Joyce
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2814
Araby https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2814/2814-h/2814-h.htm#chap03
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/375
Read online: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/375/375-h/375-h.htm
“Present at a Hanging & Other Ghost Stories” by Ambrose Bierce
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4387
Read title story online https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4387/4387-h/4387-h.htm
“A Passion in the Desert” by Honore de Balzac
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1555
Read online here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1555/1555-h/1555-h.htm
From “What Men Live by & Other Tales” by graf Leo Tolstoy
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6157
“How Much Land does a Man Need?” https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6157/6157-h/6157-h.htm#link2H_4_0016
Complete works of Guy de Maupassant
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3090
read online
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3090/3090-h/3090-h.htm
From “The Awakening & Selected Short Stories” by Kate Chopin
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/160
“A Pair of Silk Stockings”
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/160/160-h/160-h.htm#link2H_4_0050
From “The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon & Other Humorous Tales” by Richard Edward Connell
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37430
Sins is story #1 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37430/37430-h/37430-h.htm
From “The Luck of Roaring Champ and other Stories” by Bret Harte
(https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6373)
“The Luck of Roaring Champ”
First story here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6373/6373-h/6373-h.htm
From “The Lady with the Dog & Other Stories” by Anton Chekov
First story is the one about the lady and dog https://www.gutenberg.org/files/13415/13415-h/13415-h.htm (not on list)
Two other short story collections from Chekov:
“The Duel & Other Stories” https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13505
“The Darling & Other Stories” https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13416
“Best Russian Short Stories” https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13437
Read online https://www.gutenberg.org/files/13437/13437-h/13437-h.htm
From “The Troll Garden & Other Stories” by Willa Cather
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/346
“Paul’s Case” is the last story https://www.gutenberg.org/files/346/346-h/346-h.htm
“A Collection of Stories, Reviews & Essays” by Willa Cather
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25586
Read online https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25586/25586-h/25586-h.htm
The Great English Short Story Writers – Vol 1
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10135
read online http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10135/pg10135-images.html
The Real Thing & Other Tales by Henry James
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2715
The Real Thing is the first story https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2715/2715-h/2715-h.htm
Flappers & Philosophers by F Scott Fitzgerald
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4368
read online https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4368/4368-h/4368-h.htm
The Gift of the Magi by O Henry
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7256
read online https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7256/7256-h/7256-h.htm
The Four Million https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2776
read online https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2776/2776-h/2776-h.htm
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1952
read online https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1952/1952-h/1952-h.htm
Cossack Tales by Gogol https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58409
read online https://www.gutenberg.org/files/58409/58409-h/58409-h.htm
The Mantle & Other Stories https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36238
read online https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36238/36238-h/36238-h.htm
The Prose Tales of Aleksandr Pushkin https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55219
read online https://www.gutenberg.org/files/55219/55219-h/55219-h.htm
First Love and other Tales by Ivan S. Turgenev https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56878
read online https://www.gutenberg.org/files/56878/56878-h/56878-h.htm
“Dracula’s Guest” by Bram Stoker
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10150
Read online https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10150/10150-h/10150-h.htm
“A Little Journey” from Ray Bradbury (not on the list; just stumbled across it)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51171
Read online: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51171/51171-h/51171-h.htm
“Tales & Fantasies”, a collection by Robert Louis Stevenson
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/426
The Dunwick Horror by HP Lovecraft https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50133
read online https://www.gutenberg.org/files/50133/50133-h/50133-h.htm
Library of the World’s Best Detective & Mystery Stories https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12758
read online https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12758/12758-h/12758-h.htm
International Short Stories (French)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10577
Tales from the German
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32046
read online https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32046/32046-h/32046-h.htm
The Best Short Stories of 1917 / Yearbook of the American Short Story
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20872
Sea Stories
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42409
read online https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42409/42409-h/42409-h.htm
“Stories by English Authors (Africa)”
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1980