Philosophical Stories: Stories with deeper meaning

When literary masters create their stories on this theme we are left with some quite brilliant and riveting works that help us gain fascinating insight into both author, story and the world beyond.

1 - Philosophical Stories - An Introduction

2 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

3 - Bartleby the Scrivener - Part 1 by Herman Melville

4 - Bartleby the Scrivener - Part 2 by Herman Melville

5 - The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

6 - Parker Adderson, Philosopher by Ambrose Bierce

7 - Dickory Cronke, The Dumb Philosopher or Great Britain's Wonder by Daniel D

8 - Plato's Dream by Voltaire

9 - The Shades, A Phantasy by Vladimir Korolenko

10 - Gods in Exile by Heinrich Heine

11 - An Evening Guest by Alexander Kuprin

12 - Bellerophon To Anteia by Mary Butts

13 - Putois by Anatole France

14 - The Lightning Rod Man by Herman Melville

15 - Moxon's Master by Ambrose Bierce

16 - A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka