Cuentos de Amor, de Locura y de Muerte

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

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

Twenty five short stories by Darío in an illustrated edition made for classroom use. The stories are brief and the print is large and clean.

Rubén Darío

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