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| Date BCE | Title | Author | Country | Type | |||||||
| c.450- 425 |
Prometheus Bound | Aeschylus | Greece | Drama | |||||||
| c.1990 | The Shipwrecked Sailor | Anonymous | Egypt | Story | |||||||
| c.1875 | The Tale of Sinuhe | Anonymous | Egypt | Story | |||||||
| The Eloquent Peasant | Anonymous | Egypt | Story | ||||||||
| c.600 -500 |
Fables | Aesop | Greece | Stories | |||||||
| Date CE | Title | Author | Country | Type | |||||||
| c.1000 | The Thousand and One Nights | Anonymous | Persia | Stories | |||||||
| c.1010 | The Book of Kings | Abolgasem | Persia | Stories | |||||||
| 1558 | Heptaméron | Marguerite de Navarre | France | Stories | |||||||
| 1805 | The Marquise of O... | Heinrich von Kleist | Germany | Story | |||||||
| 1812-57 | Grimm’s Fairy Tales | Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm | Germany | Stories | |||||||
| 1819 | Rip Van Winkle | Washington Irving | USA | Story | |||||||
| 1820 | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Washington Irving | USA | Story | |||||||
| 1835 | Young Goodman Brown | Nathaniel Hawthorne | USA | Story | |||||||
| 1837 | Twice-Told Tales | Nathaniel Hawthorne | USA | Stories | |||||||
| 1840 | Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque | Edgar Allan Poe | USA | Stories | |||||||
| 1841 | The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Edgar Allan Poe | USA | Story | |||||||
| 1846 | The Cask of Amontillado | Edgar Allan Poe | USA | Story | |||||||
| 1853 | Bartleby the Scrivener | Herman Melville | USA | Story | |||||||
| 1872 | Fairy Tales and Stories | Hans Christian Andersen | Denmark | Stories | |||||||
| 1882 | Mademoiselle Fifi | Guy de Maupassant | France | Stories | |||||||
| 1891 | An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | Ambrose Bierce | USA | Story | |||||||
| 1892 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | England | Stories | |||||||
| Ward Number Six | Anton Chekhov | Russia | Story | ||||||||
| The Yellow Wallpaper | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | USA | Story | ||||||||
| 1894 | The Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling | England | Stories | |||||||
| Tevye Stories | Sholom Aleichem | Ukraine | Stories | ||||||||
| 1898 | The Open Boat | Stephen Crane | USA | Story | |||||||
| 1904 | Cabbages and Kings | O. Henry | USA | Stories | |||||||
| 1911 | The Innocence of Father Brown | G.K. Chesterton | England | Stories | |||||||
| 1912 | Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town | Stephen Leacock | Canada | Stories | |||||||
| 1914 | Dubliners | James Joyce | Ireland | Stories | |||||||
| 1918 | Prelude | Katherine Mansfield | New Zealand | Story | |||||||
| 1922 | The Garden Party and Other Stories | Katherine Mansfield | New Zealand | Stories | |||||||
| Tales of the Jazz Age • | F. Scott Fitzgerald | USA | Stories | ||||||||
| 1924 | The Most Dangerous Game | Richard Connell | USA | Story | |||||||
| 1925 | In Our Time | Ernest Hemingway | USA | Stories | |||||||
| 1926 | Winnie-the-Pooh | A.A. Milne | England | Stories | |||||||
| 1927 | The Killers | Ernest Hemingway | USA | Story | |||||||
| 1931 | That Evening Sun Go Down | William Faulkner | USA | Story | |||||||
| 1932 | Guys and Dolls | Damon Runyan | USA | Stories | |||||||
| 1935 | Old Tales Retold | Lu Hsun | China | Stories | |||||||
| The Doctor's Son and Other Stories | John O'Hara | China | Stories | ||||||||
| 1936 | The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Ernest Hemingway | USA | Story | |||||||
| 1937 | The Red Pony | John Steinbeck | USA | Stories | |||||||
| 1939 | Pale Horse, Pale Rider | Katherine Anne Porter | USA | Stories | |||||||
| 1941 | Nightfall | Isaac Asimov | USA | Story | |||||||
| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | James Thurber | USA | Story | ||||||||
| A Curtain of Green | Eudora Welty | USA | Stories | ||||||||
| 1944 | Fictions | Jorge Luis Borges | Argentina | Stories | |||||||
| 1949 | The Aleph | Jorge Luis Borges | Argentina | Stories | |||||||
| 1950 | The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury | USA | Stories | |||||||
| I, Robot | Isaac Asimov | USA | Stories | ||||||||
| 1955 | A Good Man Is Hard to Find | Flannery O'Connor | USA | Story | |||||||
| 1959 | Morley Callaghan’s Stories | Morley Callaghan | Canada | Stories | |||||||
| 1963 | Hugh Garner’s Best Stories | Hugh Garner | Canada | Stories | |||||||
| 1964 | The Swimmer | John Cheever | USA | Story | |||||||
| 1971 | Lives of Girls and Women | Alice Munro | Canada | Stories | |||||||
| 1972 | All Creatures Great and Small | James Herriot | England | Stories | |||||||
| 1981 | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | Raymond Carver | USA | Stories | |||||||
| 1996 | Selected Stories | Mavis Gallant | Canada | Stories | |||||||
| 1999 | Hearts in Atlantis | Stephen King | USA | Story | |||||||
| 2000 | Pastoralia | George Saunders | USA | Stories | |||||||
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