25 Cuentos

A collection of love stories written in Spanish, most only a few pages long. Pardo Bazán writes about jealousy and marriage without softening anything.

Emilia Pardo Bazán

Stories set mostly in the jungle, where love and death sit close together. Each one is short and ends fast.

Horacio Quiroga

Short gothic tales about ghosts, ruins, and doomed love, written in Spanish. They read like campfire stories and bridge the gap between poetry and prose.

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Known in English as White Nights, a lonely man meets a young woman over four nights in St. Petersburg. At 45 pages it is the quickest read on this page.

Fiódor Dostoievski