Books and Short Stories 
Complete Texts of Many Classic Books The EServer's Short Fiction Collection classic and new Classic Reader's Short Stories Story Bytes - the shortest stories - from 2 to 2048 words. Bibliomania A huge searchable collection of short stories East of the Web find short stories in nice categories. My Recommendations: The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss. This is one of my absolute favorite stories. Focusing on prejudice, it demonstrates the silliness of segregating people based on categories (race, religion, gender, etc). The story's strength is that it shows just how arbitrary these categories are. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman In this classic late-nineteenth-century story, a new mother suffering from what we might today call 'post-partum depression,' is diagnosed with a nervous disorder. Instructed to abandon her intellectual life and avoid stimulating company, she sinks into a still-deeper depression invisible to her husband, who believes he knows what is best for her. Alone in the yellow-wallpapered nursery of a rented house, she descends into madness.
Knowing Poe The Literature, Life, and Times of Edgar Allan Poe. Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter Let us not forget this great book! The moral dilemmas of personal responsibility, and consuming emotions of guilt, anger, loyalty and revenge are timeless.Guy de Maupassant A french author who wrote some amazing stuff...before he went mad! The last really good book I read: "Don't Close Tour Eyes" by Robert Ross (2003). Wow- I recommend this one!
"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." (from Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," available in full-text here .)
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'" (from Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass," which can be found in full-text with "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" here .)
