

These stories deal with a variety of themes and are easy to read. Here are some short stories that are appropriate for middle school students. We established ourselves in one of the smallest and least sumptuously furnished apartments. To all appearance it had been temporarily and very lately abandoned.

The Chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of commingled gloom and grandeur which have so long frowned among the Appennines, not less in fact than in the fancy of Mrs. The narrator focuses on a painting of a young woman and looks up the story of when she modeled for the portrait. There are many paintings with an accompanying book that describes them. The injured narrator seeks shelter in an abandoned mansion. The narrator is educated, weak, and Jewish he knows he won't be readily accepted by the soldiers. The narrator reports for duty to Commander Savitsky, leader of a Cossack Division of the Red Army.
