Collected Short Stories: Volume 1

Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140185898
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
These 30 short stories, comprising Somerset Maugham's first collection, are set in locations ranging from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. They include "Rain," "The Three Fat Women of Antibes," "The Voice of the Turtle," and "Before the Party." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 1

Author: Louis L'Amour
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553898841
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 522

Book Description
With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors in history. Though he met with phenomenal success in every genre he tried, the form that put him on the map was the short story. Now this great writer—The Wall Street Journal recently compared with Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson—will receive his due as a great storyteller. This volume kicks off a series that will, when complete, anthologize all of L'Amour’s short fiction, volume by handsome volume. Here, in Volume One, is a treasure-trove of 35 frontier tales for his millions of fans and for those who have yet to discover L'Amour’s thrilling prose—and his vital role in capturing the spirit of the Old West for generations to come.

The Collected Short Stories of George Moore Vol 1

Author: Ann Heilmann
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040243487
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 482

Book Description
George Moore (1852-1933) was one of the most influential and versatile writers and journalists of the turn of the century. This five-volume, reset critical edition addresses scholarly interest in Moore, making available his generally neglected short story collections.

Detective Kay Hunter - Collected Short Stories Volume 1

Author: Rachel Amphlett
Publisher: Saxon Publishing
ISBN: 1915231612
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171

Book Description
Discover three short stories featuring Detective Kay Hunter in this page-turning collection of crime thrillers. Nowhere to Run When a series of vicious attacks leaves the local running community in shock and fear, newly qualified detective Kay Hunter is thrust into the middle of a fraught investigation. Blood on Snow A suburban housewife is found dead in her garden. There is no weapon, no witnesses, and the only set of footprints belong to her cat. Probationary detective Kay Hunter and her colleagues are convinced it’s murder – but how can they find a killer when there are no clues? A Burning Question When a fire deliberately destroys a boat, nearly killing the occupant, Kay Hunter and her colleagues suspect a serial arsonist is targeting a small community of river dwellers. With another man dead and people fearing for their lives, Kay is desperate to stop a killer who shows no sign of stopping...

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 1

Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Tacet Books
ISBN: 3968583663
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1419

Book Description
This book contains 70 short stories from 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: - Washington Irving:The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle The Devil and Tom Walker Christmas Guest from Gibbet Island The Legend of the Engulphed Convent The Adventure of my Uncle - Oscar Wilde:Lord Arthur Savile's Crime The Sphinx without a Secret A Model Millionaire The Happy Prince The Fisherman and his Soul The Nightingale and the Rose The Young King - Bram Stoker:The Castle of the King A Star Trap The Secret of the Growing Gold The Burial of the Rats Dracula's Guest The Squaw The Judge's House - H.G. Wells:The Time Machine A Dream Of Armageddon The Crystal Egg The Man Who Could Work Miracles The Flowering of the Strange Orchid The Sea Riders The Apple - Arthur Conan Doyle:A Scandal In Bohemia The Five Orange Pips The Disintegration Machine When the World Screamed The Great Keinplatz Experiment The Horror of the Heights The Ring of Thoth - E.T.A. Hoffman:The Golden Pot The Sandman Councillor Krespela Automata The Elementary Spirit The Jesuits' Church in G-- The Story of the Hard Nut - Rudyard Kipling:The Mark of the Beast The Phantom 'Rickshaw Mowgli's Brothers (from the Jungle Book) Kaa's Hunting (from the Jungle Book) Tiger! Tiger! (from the Jungle Book) The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes The Man Who Would Be King - Franz Kafka:The Metamorphosis A Hunger Artist In the penal colony The Judgment Before the Law A Country Doctor A Report to an Academy - H.P. Lovecraft:The Call of Cthulhu The Outsider Pickman's Model The Statement of Randolph Carter The Colour out of Space The Dunwich Horror The Music of Erich Zann - Edgar Allan Poe:The Tell-Tale Heart The Cask of Amontillado The Masque of the Red Death The Pit and the Pendulum The Fall of the House of Usher The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Black Cat

The Collected Short Stories of George Moore Vol 5

Author: Ann Heilmann
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040289797
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 421

The Complete Short Stories, Essays, and a Play, Volume 1

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743254694
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1206

Book Description
The first comprehensive collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories and essays is now available in eBook only. This definitive edition pulls together the complete works from such celebrated titles as Tales of the Jazz Age, Babylon Revisited, Flappers and Philosophers, and many others. For the first time ever, readers will have all of the short stories and essays ordered chronologically in two volumes. Volume one contains the works from 1916 to 1927, including the out-of-print play, The Vegetable. Each volume also includes photos, critical excerpts, and essays from noted Fitzgerald scholars. This is a treasure for any Fitzgerald fan.

Case Files: Collected Short Crime Stories Vol. 1

Author: Rachel Amphlett
Publisher: Saxon Publishing
ISBN: 1915231531
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
Discover twelve dark and twisted mysteries from USA Today bestselling author Rachel Amphlett. This page-turning collection features The Man Cave, in which Darren regains consciousness in a dank basement where escape turns out to be the least of his worries; in All Night Long Zoe soon wishes she wasn't working the late shift; and in Nowhere to Run a rookie detective encounters her first serial killer... but will she survive? “"Like a box of dark chocolates – something different to savour every time" Cara Hunter, Sunday Times bestselling author “A wonderful assortment of quirky, creepy and twisted tales” James Oswald, Sunday Times bestselling author Case Files Short Crime Stories Volume 1: The Reckoning A Grave Mistake The Beachcomber The Man Cave A Dirty Business The Last Super Something in the Air Special Delivery A Pain in the Neck The Last Days of Tony MacBride The Moment Before Nowhere to Run Case Files: short crime fiction stories that will have you on the edge of your seat.

The Collected Short Stories of George Moore Vol 4

Author: Ann Heilmann
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040246133
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 460

The Collected Short Stories of George Moore Vol 2

Author: Ann Heilmann
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040281206
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207