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Joseph Conrad · 261 pages
The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories
Rudyard Kipling · 199 pages
The Man Who Would be King' is the story of two British vagabonds who set off to establish a small kingdom among primitive tribesmen in Afghanistan. Only one of the men returns, and his condition is so bad that the newspaperman-narrator barely recognizes him.This collection brings together seventeen of Kipling's early stories, written between 1885 and 1888, when Kipling was working as a journalist
The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction
Henry James · 403 pages
To read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any other--a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. Devious children, sparring lovers, capricious American girls, obtuse bachelors, sibylline spinsters, and charming Europeans populate these five fascinating nouvelles, which represent the author in both his early and late phases. Fr
The Kreutzer Sonata
Leo Tolstoy · 150 pages
"When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kreutzer Sonata illuminates Tolstoy's then-feverish Christian ideals, his conflicts with lust and the hypocrisies of nineteenth-century marriage, and his thinking on the role of art and music in societ
Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a Woman & The Royal Game
Stefan Zweig · 133 pages
A Descent into the Maelstrom
Edgar Allan Poe · 43 pages
"A Descent into the Maelström" is an 1841 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. In the tale, a man recounts how he survived a shipwreck and a whirlpool. It has been grouped with Poe's tales of ratiocination and also labeled an early form of science fiction.
The Reivers
William Faulkner · 305 pages
The adventures of a Mississippi innocent who, with two older friends, "borrows" his grandfather's automobile one day in 1905 and heads for Memphis.
Seven Gothic Tales
Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen · 420 pages
Originally published in 1934, *Seven Gothic Tales,* the first book by "one of the finest and most singular artists of our time" *(The Atlantic),* is a modern classic. Here are seven exquisite tales combining the keen psychological insight characteristic of the modern short story with the haunting mystery of the nineteenth-century Gothic tale, in the tradition of writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, a
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
Jorge Luis Borges · 260 pages
Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays by the writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was translated into English, published soon after Borges won the International Publishers' Prize with Samuel Beckett. It includes, among other stories, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", "The Garden of Forking Paths", and "The Library of Babel", three of Borges' most famous stories. Stories [Tlön, Uqbar, O
Arabian Nights: The Marvels and Wonders of The Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous · 595 pages
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle · 288 pages
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes , published in 1894, is the second collection of Sherlock Holmes stories published in book form. All of the stories included in the collection previously appeared in The Strand Magazine between 1892 and 1893. They purport to be the accounts given by Dr. John Watson of the more remarkable cases in which his friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes becomes involved in his role as a
Lost Horizon
James Hilton · 236 pages
Following a plane crash, Conway, a British consul; his deputy; a missionary; and an American financier find themselves in the enigmatic snow-capped mountains of uncharted Tibet. Here they discover a seemingly perfect hidden community where they are welcomed with gracious hospitality. Intrigued by its mystery, the travellers set about discovering the secret hidden at the shimmering heart of Shangri
Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings
Alexander Pushkin · 209 pages
Arabian Nights and Days
Naguib Mahfouz, njyb mHfwZ · 227 pages
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories
Robert Louis Stevenson · 303 pages
Dr. Jekyll invented a drug that would change him into the ominous Mr. Hyde. His evil nature, however, became the stronger part of him and to his horror, he no longer needed the formula to transform his appearance.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Herman Melville · 420 pages
A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied capture.
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 503 pages
*Don Quijote de la Mancha* es una novela escrita por el español Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Publicada su primera parte con el título de *El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha* a comienzos de 1605, es la obra más destacada de la literatura española y una de las principales de la literatura universal. En 1615 apareció su continuación con el título de *Segunda parte del ingenioso caballero
The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre
H.P. Lovecraft · 406 pages
This is the collection that true fans of horror fiction must read: sixteen of H.P. Lovecraft's most horrifying visions ...
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Italo Calvino · 129 pages