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A House of Pomegranates
By Oscar Wilde. 2012
The Vanishing Man: A Detective Romance
By R. Austin Freeman. 2012
The Valor of Cappen Varra
By Poul William Anderson. 2012
We have said that there are many and strange shadows, memories surviving from dim pasts, in this FANTASTIC UNIVERSE of…
ours. Poul Anderson turns to a legend from the Northern countries, countries where even today the pagan past seems only like yesterday, and tells the story of Cappen Varra, who came to Norren a long, long time ago.Industrial Revolution
By Poul William Anderson. 2012
Sixes and Sevens
By O. Henry. 2012
O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (1862-1910). Porter's 400 short stories are known for…
their wit, wordplay, characterization and the clever use of twist endings. He travelled to Austin in 1884, where he took a number of different jobs over the next several years, first as pharmacist then as a draftsman, bank teller and journalist. He also began writing as a sideline to employment. Porter's most prolific writing period started in 1902, when he moved to New York City to be near his publishers. He wrote 381 short stories while living there. He wrote a story a week for over a year for the New York World Sunday Magazine. His wit, characterization and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Yet, he went on to gain international recognition and is credited with defining the short story as a literary art form. His works include: Cabbages and Kings (1904), The Four Million (1906), Heart of the West (1907), The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million (1907), The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million (1908), The Gentle Grafter (1908) and Roads of Destiny (1909).The Mantle, and Other Stories
By Nikolai Gogol. 2012
Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million
By O Henry. 2012
O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (1862-1910). Porter's 400 short stories are known for…
their wit, wordplay, characterization and the clever use of twist endings. He travelled to Austin in 1884, where he took a number of different jobs over the next several years, first as pharmacist then as a draftsman, bank teller and journalist. He also began writing as a sideline to employment. Porter's most prolific writing period started in 1902, when he moved to New York City to be near his publishers. He wrote 381 short stories while living there. He wrote a story a week for over a year for the New York World Sunday Magazine. His wit, characterization and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Yet, he went on to gain international recognition and is credited with defining the short story as a literary art form. His works include: Cabbages and Kings (1904), The Four Million (1906), Heart of the West (1907), The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million (1907), The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million (1908), The Gentle Grafter (1908) and Roads of Destiny (1909).Wizard
By Laurence Mark Janifer. 2012
Although the Masquerade itself, as a necessary protection against non-telepaths, was not fully formulated until the late years of the…
Seventeenth Century, groups of telepaths-in-hiding existed long before that date. Whether such groups were the results of natural mutations, or whether they came into being due to some other cause, has not yet been fully determined, but that a group did exist in the district of Offenburg, in what is now Prussia, we are quite sure. The activities of the group appear to have begun, approximately, in the year 1594, but it was not until eleven years after that date that they achieved a signal triumph, the first and perhaps the last of its kind until the dissolution of the Masquerade in 2103.Whirligigs
By O. Henry. 2012
O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (1862-1910). Porter's 400 short stories are known for…
their wit, wordplay, characterization and the clever use of twist endings. He travelled to Austin in 1884, where he took a number of different jobs over the next several years, first as pharmacist then as a draftsman, bank teller and journalist. He also began writing as a sideline to employment. Porter's most prolific writing period started in 1902, when he moved to New York City to be near his publishers. He wrote 381 short stories while living there. He wrote a story a week for over a year for the New York World Sunday Magazine. His wit, characterization and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Yet, he went on to gain international recognition and is credited with defining the short story as a literary art form. His works include: Cabbages and Kings (1904), The Four Million (1906), Heart of the West (1907), The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million (1907), The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million (1908), The Gentle Grafter (1908) and Roads of Destiny (1909).The Impossibles
By Gordon Randall Garrett. 2012
A Son of the Sun
By Jack London. 2012
David Grief was once a light-haired, blue-eyed youth who came from Englandto the South Seas in search of adventure. Tanned…
like a native and aslithe as a tiger, he became a real son of the sun. The life appealed tohim and he remained and became very wealthy.The Scarlet Plague
By Jack London. 2013
The Scarlet Plague is a futuristic novel by Jack London, set in San Francisco after an epidemic, the Red Death,…
has ravaged the planet. The main character, James Howard Smith, sees the diminished society and attempts to impart his knowledge to his grandsons, in order that they may restart a civilization. This book is an early post-apocalyptic novel, and will entrance not just science fiction aficionados but all readers alike.Heart of the West
By O. Henry. 2012
Several of the funniest and best stories by O. Henry appear in this new book, which is made up of…
about twenty-five of his inimitable tales of Western life and types which have appeared at intervals in the magazines. These stories are the best of their kind since Bret Harte.Taras Bulba: And Other Tales
By Nikolai Gogol. 2012
Some of the most powerful and dramatic writing of one of the men who opened the minds of the Russian…
people by showing them as others saw them. Gogol's tremendous power is one of the marvels of modern world literature and it is shown at its best in this remarkable book. Taras Bulba -- St. John's Eve -- The Cloak -- How the Two Ivans Quarrelled -- The Mysterious Portrait -- The CalashThe Son of the Wolf
By Jack London. 2013
The Eye of Osiris
By R. Austin Freeman. 2012
Waifs and Strays: Twelve Stories
By O. Henry. 2012
The Red Roses of Tonia Round The Circle The Rubber Plant's Story Out of Nazareth Confessions of a Humorist The…
Sparrows in Madison Square Hearts and Hands The Cactus The Detective Detector The Dog and the Playlet A Little Talk About Mobs The Snow ManRomance
By Joseph Conrad. 2012
Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in…
Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to speak English well until he was in his 20s. He is recognized as a master prose stylist. Some of his works have a strain of romanticism, but more importantly he is recognized as an important forerunner of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many writers, including Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence and Graham Greene. Writing during the apogee of the British Empire, Conrad drew upon his experiences in the British Merchant Navy to create novels and short stories that reflected aspects of a world-wide empire while also plumbing the depths of the human soul. Amongst his best known works are Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), Under Western Eyes (1911), Victory (1915) and The Rescue (1920).On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales
By Jack London. 2012
Unlike the women of most warm races, those of Hawaii age well and nobly. With no pretence of make-up or…
cunning concealment of time's inroads, the woman who sat under the hau tree might have been permitted as much as fifty years by a judge competent anywhere over the world save in Hawaii. Yet her children and her grandchildren, and Roscoe Scandwell who had been her husband for forty years, knew that she was sixty-four and would be sixty-five come the next twenty-second day of June. But she did not look it, despite the fact that she thrust reading glasses on her nose as she read her magazine and took them off when her gaze desired to wander in the direction of the half-dozen children playing on the lawn.Lost Face
By Jack London. 2012
Jack London, the novelist, the writer of short stories, merits respect, for he is a powerful artist in the field…
where he found fame. He is best known by his stories of life in the frozen and savage North. His interpretations are characterized by brutal vigor. They are rich in the element of man and nature.