The story shelf
Follow your curiosity.
A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
What would you like to read about?
5 stories · Selected from the catalog
Anton ChekhovTwo schoolboys arrive home for Christmas with maps, a pistol, and a secret plan to cross Siberia and seek gold in America.
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Five children turn a forbidden late-night game of loto into a small world of greed, vanity, kindness, quarrels, and sudden sleep.
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A sleepy family turns the last evening before Lent into an earnest campaign of lessons, tea, ritual, and still more food.
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A lost traveler follows an unusually beautiful lane to a cottage where every detail of the house and valley shows careful design.
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An aging sportsman keeps hunting season alive through elaborate dinners, improbable anecdotes, and one coveted delicacy.
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