Category
page 1Short stories adapted into plays

Struwwelpeter
Der Struwwelpeter ("Shock-Headed Peter") is an 1845 German children's book written and illustrated by the German psychiatrist Heinrich Hoffmann. It comprises ten illustrated and rhymed stories, mostly about children. Each cautionary tale has a clear moral lesson that demonstrates the disastrous consequences of misbehavior in an exaggerated way. The title of the first story provides the title of the whole book.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears
fairy tale

The Last Question
short story by Isaac Asimov first published in 1956

Idgah
1938 short story by Premchand
The Tale of Huo Xiaoyu
Tang chuanqi by Jiang Fang

Madame Butterfly
short story by John Luther Long
Liu Yi Zhuan
literary work
Toba Tek Singh
1995 short story by Saadat Hasan Manto
The Tale of Hongxian
Tang chuanqi by Yuan Jiao