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Shawl-Straps: A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag
By Louisa May Alcott. 2012
Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the…
novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys.Tales of Wonder
By Lord Dunsany. 2012
A Tale of London Thirteen at Table The City on Mallington Moor Why the Milkman Shudders When He Perceives the…
Dawn The Bad Old Woman in Black The Bird of the Difficult Eye The Long Porter's Tale The Loot of Loma The Secret of the Sea How Ali Came to the Black Country (audiobook) The Bureau d'Echange de Maux A Story of Land and Sea A Tale of the Equator A Narrow Escape The Watch-tower How Plash-Goo Came to the Land of None's Desire The Three Sailors' Gambit The Exiles Club The Three Infernal JokesOptions
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
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 ManOn 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.A Set of Six
By Joseph Conrad. 2012
Stories by Russian Authors
By Various. 2012
A Collection of Stories
By Jack London. 2012
The Human Drift -- Small-Boat Sailing -- Four Horses and a Sailor -- Nothing that Ever Came to Anything --…
That Dead Men Rise up Never -- A Classic of the Sea -- A Wicked Woman (Curtain Raiser) -- The Birth Mark (Sketch)The Faith of Men
By Jack London. 2012
I wash my hands of him at the start. I cannot father his tales, nor will I be responsible for…
them. I make these preliminary reservations, observe, as a guard upon my own integrity. I possess a certain definite position in a small way, also a wife; and for the good name of the community that honours my existence with its approval, and for the sake of her posterity and mine, I cannot take the chances I once did, nor foster probabilities with the careless improvidence of youth. So, I repeat, I wash my hands of him, this Nimrod, this mighty hunter, this homely, blue-eyed, freckle-faced Thomas Stevens. Having been honest to myself, and to whatever prospective olive branches my wife may be pleased to tender me, I can now afford to be generous. I shall not criticize the tales told me by Thomas Stevens, and, further, I shall withhold my judgment. If it be asked why, I can only add that judgment I have none. Long have I pondered, weighed, and balanced, but never have my conclusions been twice the same-forsooth! because Thomas Stevens is a greater man than I. If he have told truths, well and good; if untruths, still well and good. For who can prove? or who disprove? I eliminate myself from the proposition, while those of little faith may do as I have done-go find the same Thomas Stevens, and discuss to his face the various matters which, if fortune serve, I shall relate. As to where he may be found? The directions are simple: anywhere between 53 north latitude and the Pole, on the one hand; and, on the other, the likeliest hunting grounds that lie between the east coast of Siberia and farthermost Labrador.The Night-Born: And Other Stories
By Jack London. 2012
It was in the old Alta-Inyo Club-a warm night for San Francisco-and through the open windows, hushed and far, came…
the brawl of the streets. The talk had led on from the Graft Prosecution and the latest signs that the town was to be run wide open, down through all the grotesque sordidness and rottenness of manhate and man-meanness, until the name of O'Brien was mentioned-O'Brien, the promising young pugilist who had been killed in the prize-ring the night before. At once the air had seemed to freshen. O'Brien had been a clean-living young man with ideals. He neither drank, smoked, nor swore, and his had been the body of a beautiful young god. He had even carried his prayer-book to the ringside. They found it in his coat pocket in the dressing-room. . . afterward.Twixt Land and Sea Tales
By Joseph Conrad. 2012
Joseph Conrad has come into his own. The three stories contained in this volume take rank with the most mature…
and romantic of his work. The charming love and adventure of the life which he depicts in remote places confirm the growing belief that he is among the greatest of living creative writers.The Hole in the Wall
By Arthur Morrison. 2012
Arthur George Morrison (1 November 1863 - 4 December 1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic…
novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, and for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt. This si one of those storiesMartin Hewitt, Investigator
By Arthur Morrison. 2012
The Lenton Croft Robberies The Loss of Sammy Crockett The Case of Mr. Foggatt The Case of the Dixon Torpedo…
The Quinton Jewel Affair The Stanway Cameo Mystery The Affair of the TortoiseLove and Friendship, and Other Early Works
By Jane Austen. 2013
Detective Stories
By Arthur Morrison. 2012
THE CASE OF THE WARD LANE TABERNACLE -- THE IVY COTTAGE MYSTERY -- THE NICOBAR BULLION CASE -- THE FLITTERBAT…
LANCERS -- THE NARRATIVE OF MR. JAMES RIGBY -- THE CASE OF JANISSARY -- THE AFFAIR OF THE AVALANCHE BICYCLE & TYRE CO., LTDThe Cook's Wedding and Other Stories
By Anton Chekhov. 2013
The Cook's Wedding -- Sleepy Children -- The Runaway -- Grisha -- Oysters -- Home -- A Classical Student --…
Vanka -- An Incident -- A Day In The Country -- Boys -- Shrove Tuesday -- The Old House -- In Passion Week -- Whitebrow -- Kashtanka -- A Chameleon -- The Dependents -- Who Was To Blame? -- The Bird Market -- An Adventure -- The Fish -- Art -- The Swedish MatchThe Works of Edgar Allan Poe
By Edgar Allan Poe. 2012
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
By Edgar Allan Poe. 2012