Jonas Lie (pronouced «Lee» in English) is one of the greats of Norwegian literature, together with Henrik Ibsen, Bjornstjerne Bjornson and Alexander Kielland. Although considered a Realist, he also worked with Scandanavian folk-lore, penning a number of fine supernatural tales (some of which are included here). In all, this volume collects 14 of his finest works, including 11 short stories and 3 novels: <P> INTRODUCTION: MEET JONAS LIE, ...
The H. Bedford-Jones Pulp Fiction Megapack collects 20 classic stories and novels from the «King of the Pulps»! Bedford-Jones, among the most prolific and popular of pulp magazine writers, penned thousands of short stories and more than 100 novels in the early to mid 20th century. His work is full of adventure, mystery, suspense, romance, and action – always a gripping story, well told. <BR> THE HOUSE OF SKULLS<BR> WRITTEN IN RED& ...
If you've picked up this volume, you may already be familiar with Achmed Abdullah's work from the first volume, «The Achmed Abdullah Megapack.» If not, no harm done; both Megapacks contain short stories which can be read in any order. The only real difference is that Volume 1 contains quite a few supernatural stories, while Volume 2 focuses more on «contemporary» (early 1900s) life in exotic locales, like the Middle East, China, and Ne ...
This volume includes 3 new translations of stories by acclaimed Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz: «A Comedy of Errors,» «The Authoresses,» and «The Third One.»<P> Translator Peter J. Obst is a lecturer at LaSalle University and a researcher for The Poles in America Foundation, established by historian Edward Pinkowski. He received his BS in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University (1977) and his MA in Central and East European Stud ...
Here are eight wonderful stories and two evocative poems for cat-people of all ages, including «The Hemingway Kittens,» «Cat in the Box,» «…And Mongo Was His Name-O,» «The Cat Tracker Lady of Asad Alley,» «The Cat with the Tulip Face,» «A Little Pinch Is All You Need,» «Hunger,» «White Comma,» «No Heaven Will Not Ever Heaven Be…,» and «Universes.» As Robert Reginald says in his Introduction: «This is a woman of enormous talent, whose fiction is ...
A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant’s stories are characterized by their economy of style and efficient, effortless denouements. Many of the stories are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s and several describe the futility of war and the innocent civilians who, caught in the conflict, emerge changed. He authored some 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse. The story «Boule de Suif» («Ball of Fat», 18 ...
The thirty-two stories in this new collection reflect the differences between man's real self and the various masks he has to wear in a Romanian society that vacillates between nostalgia for its communist past and restrained optimism about its capitalist future. The characters, who are taken from all walks of life, face constant political intrigues, moral dilemmas, and/or family crises. They must find a way to fit their own life stories, ho ...
Champavert was the archetypal collection of the French «contes cruels,» and the book still remains among the cruellest of them all. It is also one of the greatest collections of short stories ever published; the only reason that it has never been translated before is that the job was so challenging that only an insane person would tackle it. Petrus Borel the Lycanthrope (as he called himself) declared himself dead before the book was published, ...
Jacques Futrelle (1875-1912) is widely considered «the American Sherlock Holmes» for his series of stories about Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, who is better known as The Thinking Machine. Van Dusen, a master of logic, believed he could think himself out of any situation – and solve any crime – using his immense intellect. Through dozens of stories, The Thinking Machine solved locked-room puzzles, kidnappings, and more murders than can b ...
