Sometimes the mere thought can set off the feeling. Sadness.....something lost or maybe not attained. Sadness can bring loneliness, a need to be with others. It can be difficult to explain, it takes time to navigate through. It may leave us or it may deepen into something darker, more tenacious.
Sadness can be about so many things from places to people, from thoughts to actions.
Our classic authors including Arnold Bennett, James Joyce, Willa Cather, Joseph Conrad, Ivan Turgenev and many others use their pens and stories to demonstrate the many ways this feeling can take a hold of lives and its consequences.
1 - Short Stories About Sadness - An Introduction
2 - The Dead by James Joyce
3 - The Cloak by Nikolai Gogol also known as 'The Overcoat'
4 - Life of Ma Parker by Katherine Mansfield
5 - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane
6 - Aloysha the Pot by Leo Tolstoy
7 - The Lagoon by Joseph Conrad
8 - Adventure by Sherwood Anderson
9 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov
10 - Odour of Chrysanthemums by D H Lawrence
11 - Paul's Case by Willa Cather
12 - Silence by Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev
13 - The Fly by Katherine Mansfield
14 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry
15 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev
16 - The Matador of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
17 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
18 - An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyveskey
19 - Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin
20 - The Interlopers by Saki the pseudonym for H H Munro
21 - A Piece of Steak by Jack London
22 - About Love by Anton Chekhov
23 - Lost in a Pyramid (or the Mummy's Curse) by Louisa May Alcott writing as A M Bernard
24 - The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar Nelson
25 - Hide and Seek or Pliatki by Fyodor Sologub
26 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson
27 - Misery by Anton Chekhov
28 - The Quadroons by Lydia Maria Child
29 - The Servant by S T Semyonov
30 - The Furnished Room by O Henry
31 - Twenty-Six Men and a Girl by Maxim Gorky
32 - Two Little Soldiers by Guy de Maupassant
33 - The Horse Dealer's Daughter by D H Lawrence
34 - Springtime a la Carte by O Henry
35 - The Canary by Katherine Mansfield
36 - Roger Malvin's Burial by Nathaniel Hawthorne
37 - Volodya by Anton Chekhov
38 - To Build a Fire by Jack London
