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The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's ...

• Gyártó: Midwest Journal Press

A collection of very early stories published posthumously, with a preface by his wife Charmian.DUTCH COURAGE (excerpt)"Just our luck!"Gus Lafee finished wiping his hands and ...

• Gyártó: Midwest Journal Press

These century-old predictions are uncanny.  Too much like our present day, say some. Proof that time travel exists, say others. Ingersoll Lockwood, himself a lawyer, wrote a ...

• Gyártó: Midwest Journal Press

A collection of 12 stories published serially in The Ludgate, London, Jun 1897 to May 1898, in which the criminal mastermind, Felix Gryde, conducts his nefarious criminal work -- ...

• Gyártó: Midwest Journal Press

MOON-FACE (Excerpt)John Claverhouse was a moon-faced man. You know the kind, cheek-bones wide apart, chin and forehead melting into the cheeks to complete the perfect round, and ...

• Gyártó: Midwest Journal Press

Trapped for decades, Aphrodite, goddess of desire, has finally been freed. Now in a mortal's body, she must shape her host to her will. Phaedra Laskaris doesn't want a man. But ...

• Gyártó: Boruma Publishing, LLC

Eight madcap tales of unpredictable dragons — including one made of ice, another that takes refuge in the General Post Office, and a fire-breathing monster that flies out of an ...

• Gyártó: Midwest Journal Press

Flappers and Philosophers was F. Scott Fitzgerald's initial encore - his first collection of short fiction, published in 1920 to capitalize on the success of This Side of Paradise, ...

• Gyártó: Midwest Journal Press

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. Written by Baroness Orczy and first published in 1919, the book consists ...

• Gyártó: Midwest Journal Press

A lively and amusing collection of letters on western living written by Kong Ho, a Chinese gentleman. These addressed to his homeland, refer to the Westerners in London as ...

• Gyártó: Midwest Journal Press

First published in 1846 in the present form, famous English story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne's book 'Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories' is a collection of fictional short ...

• Gyártó: Midwest Journal Press

A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West is a collection of short stories written by the American author Frank Norris. It was published posthumously in 1903 and ...

• Gyártó: Midwest Journal Press

This collection of Lupin short stories presents more puzzling criminal involvements of the classic French hero-thief and his men.The character of Lupin might have been based by ...

• Gyártó: Midwest Journal Press

Flower Fables was the first work published by Louisa May Alcott and appeared on December 9, 1854. The book was a compilation of fanciful stories first written six years earlier for ...

• Gyártó: Midwest Journal Press

Excerpt: A man is very much like a horse. Once thoroughly frightened by something he meets on the road he will invariably shy at the same place afterwards until a wisely firm ...

• Gyártó: Midwest Journal Press

The Monster is an 1898 novella by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). The story takes place in the small, fictional town of Whilomville, New York. An ...

• Gyártó: Midwest Journal Press

This is one of two short story collections as sequels to the Raffles books by E.W. Hornung.THE ADVENTURE OF THE HERALD PERSONAL (excerpt) That I was in a hard case is best attested ...

• Gyártó: Midwest Journal Press

A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde ...

• Gyártó: Midwest Journal Press

Tales from the Klondike."The Faith of Men" is a short story collection originally published in 1904 and contains eight of Jack London's adventure tales, all of them set in London's ...

• Gyártó: Midwest Journal Press

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary is the title of M. R. James' first collection of ghost stories, published in 1904 (some had previously appeared in magazines). Some later editions ...

• Gyártó: Midwest Journal Press

The setting: Hollywood: the character: Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter trying to break back into show business, but having better luck getting into bars. Written between ...

• Gyártó: Midwest Journal Press

These are two short stories from the collection THE GREAT PORTRAIT MYSTERY: "PERCIVAL BLAND'S PROXY" and "THE MISSING MORTGAGEE", wherein the brilliant medical investigator, Dr. ...

• Gyártó: Midwest Journal Press

Contains a number of lesser-known South Pacific tales.A SON OF THE SUN (excerpt)The Willi-Waw lay in the passage between the shore-reef and the outer-reef. From the latter came ...

• Gyártó: Midwest Journal Press

Tales from Northland.THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS (excerpt)On every hand stretched the forest primeval,—the home of noisy comedy and silent tragedy. Here the struggle for survival ...

• Gyártó: Midwest Journal Press

Sometimes, resentful spirits pursue souls until they get what they want—vengeance and sinful pleasures. (Book 1) After Maggie McGee’s husband had committed suicide in their ...

• Gyártó: Feather and Fermion Publishing