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To Build a Fire is one of Jack London's most famous short stories. This edition also includes more London short stories, such as Lost Face, Trust, That Spot,...

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THE WITCH IT was approaching nightfall. The sexton, Savely Gykin, was lying in his huge bed in the hut adjoining the church. He was not asleep, though it...

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One of Irelands most famous writers was James Joyce, a novelist and poet whos best known for his avant garde classic Ulysses, which was inspired by The...

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The short fiction of Karine Khodikyan can be described as intellectual fiction for women. These short stories with a “mystical touch” tell stories about...

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  ' The Phoenix on the Sword ' is a story in the Conan series where he foils a plot to overthrow him as King of Aquilonia. Robert Ervin Howard was born in...

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Delia Reddick has become quite skilled at keeping people at arm's length. She learned it from her parents, Savannah, Georgia's most ruthless attorney,...

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It's the most wonderful time of the year!  Christmas brings joy to the masses worldwide whether it be through gift-giving, kindness, or even the...

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This is a collection of seven short stories for adults and five short stories for children by George Vizyenos, a largely forgotten 19th-century intellectual...

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In which a man deceives a woman In Benares once reigned a mighty prince, by name Pratapamukut, to whose eighth son Vajramukut happened the strangest...

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The pioneering novelist and short story writer, Sherwood Anderson strongly influenced American writing in the Interwar period, producing works notable for...

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Edgar Allan Poe (19 January 1809 7 October 1849) was an American writer best known for stories of mystery and horror. Poe also wrote poetry, including the...

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From the author of Birds in the Air, a touching, big-hearted collection of short stories about women whose lives revolve around family, friends and...

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An elephant herd is a kind of republic, something like the United States of America, only much smaller and much simpler. So its leader is a sort of...

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In a town of Persia lived two brothers, sons of a poor man; one named Cassim, the other Ali Baba. Cassim, the elder, married a wife with a considerable...

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Ambrose Bierce (1842 1914) was an American writer who also served the Union in the American Civil War. Bierce wrote extensively on what he had seen as a...

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Louisa May Alcott was an American writer best known for coming of age novels featuring young women.  Alcott also served as a nurse at a Union hospital...

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THE evening service was being celebrated on the eve of Palm Sunday in the Old Petrovsky Convent. When they began distributing the palm it was close upon ten...

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Hector Hugh Munro, better known by his pen name writer ‘Saki’, was a master of the short story, whose witty, mischievous and macabre tales satirised...

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Late in the evening of the sixteenth of February, 1879, after a rough voyage which lasted thirty-two days, joyful exclamations were heard everywhere on...