Short stories books

John Claverhouse was a moon-faced man. You know the kind, cheek-bones wide apart, chin and forehead melting into...  Read More >>

The story starts in a charity hospice in Rochester-a place that Dickens himself was familiar with from his own childhood....  Read More >>

Revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universidade de S~ao Paulo, 1995.  Read More >>

The story of a young naif in Nelson's navy, Peter Simple , Marryat's signature work, is marked by memorable characters,...  Read More >>

This outstanding collection includes The Apostate, Just Meat, A Piece of Steak, and Chinago. In The Apostate...  Read More >>

Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel...  Read More >>

Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was...  Read More >>

The Touchstone is a novel, written by Edith Wharton in 1905; it was the first of her many stories describing life...  Read More >>

The story begins in 1801 with lieutenant d'Hubert walking the streets of Strasbourg, searching for a fellow lieutenant...  Read More >>

The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving...  Read More >>

John Griffith London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial...  Read More >>

A sweeping adventure saga in the tradition of White Fang and The Call of the Wild, bringing to vivid life the cold,...  Read More >>

One of Thomas Hardy's most powerful works, The Return of the Native centers famously on Egdon Heath, the wild, haunted...  Read More >>

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River....  Read More >>

Mosses from an Old Manse is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846. The collection...  Read More >>

""When you love someone, there is no such thing as boundaries. Your devotion goes above and beyond.""-Evelyn A fog...  Read More >>

Es war einmal eine sehr, sehr alte Frau, die hiess Marlies und war mit ihrem Leben zufrieden. Doch als ihre Tochter...  Read More >>

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The Canterville Ghost is a short story by Oscar Wilde, widely adapted for the screen and stage. It was the first...  Read More >>

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My mother was twice married. She never spoke of her first husband, and it is only from other people that I have...  Read More >>

Curious; If True by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. One of the greatest classics of literary fiction, now available...  Read More >>

The Grey Woman and other Tales from Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. British novelist and short story writer during...  Read More >>

In this intriguing literary fragment by the author of Dracula, an English visitor to southern Germany suffers a...  Read More >>

Everybody in the county knows that the great manor of Canterville Chase has been haunted for three hundred years....  Read More >>