A volume of 60 satirical, rollicking short tales by the literary master includes such classics as The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and The Diary of Adam and Eve. 12,500 first printing.
Most of O. Henry's stories are set in his own time, the early 20th century.
This edition shows how they continue to the enthral and challenge the reader.
Includes stories that are humorous, satiric, supernatural, and macabre, highly individual, and full of eccentric unconventional situations.
ZERO'S TALE OF THE EXPLOSIVE BOMB DESBOROUGH'S ADVENTURE STORY OF THE FAIR CUBAN EPILOGUE OF THE CIGAR DIVAN The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables: THE MERRY MEN WILL O' THE MILL THRAWN JANET OLALLA THE TREASURE OF FRANCHARD THE ...
A collection of short stories composed between 1910-62. It includes "Mr Loveday's Little Outing"; "Cruise"; "A House of Gentlefolks"; and, "The Sympathetic Passenger"
Surreal tales of suspense and imagination from an American master The Complete Short Stories is the ultimate collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s tales of the macabre—from the world-famous classics “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Pit and ...
Originally published in 1 vol.: London: Flamingo, 2001.
Dowling, Linda, 'Imposture and Absence in Wilde's “Portrait of Mr. W. H.” ', Victorian Newsletter, 58 (1980), 26–9. Gillespie, Michael Patrick, Oscar Wilde and the Poetics of Ambiguity (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996).
The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the first of two unsettling and sinister volumes. 'They are brutal, these stories, and yet you finish reading each one with a...
The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the second of two unsettling and sinister volumes. 'Dahl finds the child in the adult and the adult in the child and,...
First in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of Empire of the Sun, Crash, Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes.
Includes eight tales such as 'Parson's Pleasure', a piece of furniture is the subject of a deceitful bargain; in 'William and Mary', a wife revenges herself on her dead husband; and in 'Royal Jelly' some new parents find an unusual and ...
Now his two critically acclaimed short story collections - A GOOD HANGING and BEGGARS BANQUET - come together in one volume, along with ATONEMENT - a new Rebus story, written especially for this collection.
Munshi Premchand, widely lauded as the greatest Hindi fiction writer of the twentieth century, wrote close to 300 short stories over the course of a prolific career spanning three decades....
Now his two critically acclaimed short story collections - A GOOD HANGING and BEGGARS BANQUET - come together in one volume, along with ATONEMENT - a new Rebus story, written especially for this collection.
Musaicum Press presents to you the complete short stories written by Saki: Table of Contents Reginald Reginald on Christmas Presents Reginald on the Academy Reginald at the Theatre Reginald's Peace Poem Reginald's Choir Treat Reginald on ...
Contains all her short stories together with some previously unpublished work.
Fitz Hugh Ludlow was prolific in his short career and covered a wide range.
With eighteen novels over four decades -from ‘The Drowned World’ in 1962 to his final novel ‘Kingdom Come’ in 2006- J.G. Ballard is known as one of Britain’s most celebrated...