Classic Short Stories

[wgjones3]

I dug these up for a post in the workshop, but I thought I'd start a thread here for everyone else who might not see it otherwise.

I found a website that has a whole bunch of classic short stories:

ClassicShorts.com (http://www.classicshorts.com/)

Some of my favorites:

The Lottery (http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lotry.html) by Shirley Jackson
Young Goodman Brown (http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/ygb.html) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Monkey's Paw (http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/paw.html) by W. W. Jacobs
The Gift of the Magi (http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/magi.html) by O'Henry


Elsewhere on the net:

A Rose for Emily (http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/wf_rose.html) by William Faulkner
A Good Man is Hard to Find (http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/goodman.html) by Flannery O'Connor

[FireFeet]

I love the classic short stories. I always pick up lit textbooks at thrift stores and garage sales because they are so filled with wonderful reading!

I still remember reading The Monkey's Paw and A Rose For Emily in high school lit.

Does anyone by any chance remember a story about a woman who killed her husband with a leg of lamb and then fed it (the lamb) to the detectives? That's another fav from high school lit...but I've never been able to recall the title.

Thanks for the links Bill. :)

[wgjones3]

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who appreciates the old standards. !thumbsup!

[Merry]

Hey, FireFeet, I don't remember the story title either, but wasn't that an Alfred Hitcock tale?

I tried reading the Monkeys PAwto my summer school class, but they said it was too boring!
Y'know what is this world coming to? I read that in the fourth grade and thought it was scarier than heck. Gosh, to write for kids requires coming up with 'McStory.' Trash like Seed of Chuckie or something equally mind dumbing seems to be the most attarctive type of stuff...in movies at least. As far as books goes, RL Stine is still popular...why? I don't know. His books are so stupid I'd have them read Harry Potter any day before I'd have them pick up a Stine book.

Sorry, I got off on a tangent.

Hey, ditto on those short story picks...excellent all..

[FireFeet]

Woohoo...I founded it. Hadn't thought to Google for it. Doh. :rolleyes:

It's called Lamb to the Slaughter (http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lamb.html) by Roald Dahl. Same guy who wrote James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory . LOL

(And, yes, Merry, it was Episode 106 on Hitchcock Presents.)

[wgjones3]

Excellent story. !thumbsup!

[wgjones3]

Here's one for you in the same vein:

What a Thought (http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0497/jackson/sstory.html) by Shirley Jackson.

[FireFeet]

THAT was freaky.............

[MsSherry]

I had forgotten all about The Monkey's Paw. That was a good one from high school. Of course, I think my all time fave is still Beowulf. (Although not a short story :) )

Did anyone else have to memorize Jabberwocky in high school?

Didn't mean to get off track there, just curious. I book marked the site for further reading :D

[wgjones3]

I'm pretty sure we didn't even read Jabberwocky. :confused: