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"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle is a thrilling and iconic collection of detective stories featuring the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes and his loyal friend Dr. John Watson. This collection brings together some of Holmes' most famous cases, including "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," and "The Red-Headed League."
Conan Doyle's writing captivates readers with its masterful storytelling, intricate...
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From the author of The Jungle Book comes a magical fantasy story, rich in historical detail and filled with intrigue and excitementUna and Dan, reciting Shakespeare on a summer's evening in rural Sussex, unwittingly summon the elf Puck. They are taken on a fantastic journey through Britain's past, their magical companion plucking from history an array of fascinating characters for them to meet: Parnesius, a Roman centurion who manned Hadrian's wall;...
7) In our time
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A collection of short stories and vignettes by Ernest Hemingway, first published in 1925, marking his American debut.
8) Arvida
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Finalist for the 2015 Giller Prize
Finalist for the 2016 Best Translated Book Award
One of Quill & Quire's Books of the Year, 2015
A twenty-five-thousand-copy bestseller in Quebec, Arvida, with its stories of innocent young girls and wild beasts, attempted murder and ritual mutilation, haunted houses and road trips heading nowhere, is unforgettable. Like a Proust-obsessed Cormac McCarthy, Samuel
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From the opening sequence, a horse ride home by the surgeon of the title, Scott takes us straight into his story which contains some Dickensian surprises and later on an exotic Empire location. Scott's childhood lameness might go some way to explaining the liberating horse riding sequences which in turn might explain his popularity in America. This is a Western set in a Scottish climate.
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. "Danger! And Other Stories" (1918) was a collection of short stories The collection's title story, "Danger!", was written eighteen months before the outbreak of World War I. First published in the Strand Magazine...
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"The Mysterious Stranger" by Mark Twain is a collection of short stories written in the late 19th century. The tales delve into thought-provoking themes of existence, morality, and the nature of humanity, often featuring a mysterious figure who impacts the lives of the characters and prompts them to contemplate their beliefs and desires. The beginning of the story introduces readers to the setting of a secluded, medieval Austrian village, a place...
12) Dubliners
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Fifteen stories evoke the character, atmosphere, and people of Dublin at the turn of the century.
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"Wise and funny . . . [A] near-perfect collection."
-Entertainment Weekly
Rebecca Lee, one of our most gifted and original short story writers, guides readers into a range of landscapes, both foreign and domestic, crafting stories as rich as novels. A student plagiarizes a paper and holds fast to her alibi until she finds herself complicit in the resurrection of one professor's shadowy past. A dinner party becomes the occasion for the dissolution...
14) The Decameron
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Set against the backdrop of the fourteenth-century Black Death, an anthology of one hundred interlinked tales presents a variety of works recounted by the citizens of Florence--nobles, knights, abbots, nuns, doctors, philosophers, students, peasants, pilgrims, thieves, and others--who have fled the city to escape the plague.
15) Escape Velocity
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Collected here in Escape Velocity, edited by Jay Jennings, is his "miscellany" †"†" journalism, short fiction, memoir, and even the play Delray's New Moon, published for the first time in this volume. Â Portis covers topics as varied as the civil rights movement, road tripping in Baja, and Elvis' s visits to his aging mother for publications such as the New York Herald Tribune and Saturday Evening Post. Â Fans of Portis's droll Southern
...16) Tanglewood tales
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Adaptations of Greek myths: The Minotaur, The Pygmies, The Dragon's Teeth, Circe's Palace, The Pomegranate seeds, and The Golden Fleece.
17) Twice-told tales
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Collects brief fictional works and legends by the nineteenth-century New England literary master.
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Now, in this collection of interconnected short stories, Jennifer Haigh returns to the vividly imagined world of Bakerton, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town rocked by decades of painful transition. From its heyday during two World Wars through its slow decline, Bakerton is a town that refuses to give up gracefully, binding--sometimes cruelly - succeeding generations to the place that made them.
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Maria Judite de Carvalho (1921-1998) is now recognized as a major Portuguese writer of the twentieth century. In the short story she found the perfect vessel for her frank depictions of tragic, ordinary lives, and So Many People, Mariana collects her first four books of short fiction in English for the first time, telling of women and men in moments of existential conflict: with their families; with themselves; with the prospect of a better...
20) Benito Cereno
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A fictionalized account about the revolt on a 19th-century Spanish slavery ship, Benito Cereno was first published in three installments in 1855. Melville scholar Merton M. Sealts, Jr. called the story "an oblique comment on those prevailing attitudes toward blacks and slavery in the United States that would ultimately precipitate civil war between North and South." The famous question of what had cast such a shadow upon Cereno was used by American...
