"To Build a Fire and Other Stories" is a classic collection of some of Jack London's most loved short stories. In this volume you will find the following stories: To The Man On The Trail, The White Silence, In A Far Country, The Wisdom Of The Trail, An Odyssey Of The North, The Law Of Life, The God Of His Fathers, Batard, The League Of The Old Men, Love Of Life, The Wit Of Porportuk, To Build A Fire, All Gold Canyon, The Apostate, Sout ...
Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) was a British writer, whose witty works satirizing Edwardian society and culture led him to be known as a master of the short story. Munro, better recognized by the pen name Saki, produced works that contrasted the conventions and hypocrisies of Edwardian England with the uncomplicated and sometimes cruel state of nature, a conflict which the latter usually won. This complete edition of short stories will entertain ...
Famed Anglo-Irish author, Lord Dunsany (1878-1957), was a short story writer, playwright, poet, essayist and autobiographer whose works earned him notoriety as one of the most significant contributors to the modern fantasy genre. His short stories, especially, were widely popular with audiences who enjoyed his formulated mythologies, his examination of the nature of time and human existence, and his satiric, and often anti-industrial, views on t ...
"My Man Jeeves and Other Early Jeeves Stories" is a collection of short stories concerning P. G. Wodehouse's most beloved character, Jeeves. This collection brings together all the stories found in the book «My Man Jeeves» as well as four other early stories. Contained in this volume you will find the following hilarious tales: Leave it to Jeeves, Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest, Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg, Absent Treatment, Helping ...
Readers will recognize their favorite horror stories in the collection «The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings.» Edgar Allen Poe was a master of suspense, horror, and mystery, and his stories, while truly terrifying, are also delightfully entertaining. In «The Tell-Tale Heart,» the narrator has just killed a man and buried him under his floor. As he sits right above the body, he begins to hear the dead man's heart thumping loudly in his ear ...
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a master of the short story. The son of a former serf in southern Russia, he attended Moscow University to study medicine, writing short stories for periodicals in order to support his family. What began as a necessity became a legitimate career in 1886 when he was asked to write in St. Petersburg for the Novoye Vremya (New Times), owned by millionaire magnate Alexey Suvorin. Chekhov began paying more attention to h ...
Early American writer Herman Melville is best known for his great American novel «Moby Dick.» However, Melville was also a prolific and honest short story writer. His stories play with irony, twisting the fates of his protagonists and making sure that the reader is left with a deep sense of wonder and enlightenment. Many of his works are set from an «outsider's» perspective of immigrants in early America, which is interesting considering th ...
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, and Other Stories" is the collection of Washington Irving's stories originally published as «The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.» This collection of Washington Irving's stories are some of his most loved and includes the following: The Author's Account of Himself, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Wife, Rip Van Winkle, English Writers on America, Rural Life in England, The Broken Hear ...
In this early collection of eight short stories by Virginia Woolf conventional notions of plot and character are abandoned for a stream of consciousness, almost dream-like and experimental form of prose. Readers while find the relative brevity of this volume, and the stories within it, helpful in overcoming any unfamiliarity with this style of writing. «Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories» was first published in 1921 and includes the following stor ...
