Anthologies

50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O’Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common—the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world’s fiction.

Biographical anthology of famous historical leaders and heroes. Edited for children: Michelangelo, Mark Twain, Helen Keller, Queen Elizabeth II, and many more.

A collection of stories, poems, songs, and illustrations as they appeared in St. Nicholas, a magazine for boys and girls published at the turn of the century.

The stories of magic and transformation that we call fairy tales are among the oldest known forms of literature, and many the most popular. "Jack and the Beanstalk," "Sleeping Beauty," "Little Red Ridinghood"--these ageless tales seem to have been written an almost magically long time ago. Yet fairy tales are still being created to this very day. And while they are principally directed to children and have child protagonists, these modern fairy tales, like the classics, have messages to those of all ages. In The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales , Alison Lurie has collected forty tales that date from the late nineteenth century up to the present. Here are trolls and princesses, magic and mayhem, morals to be told and lessons to be learned--all the elements of the classic fairy tale, in new and fantastical trappings. In Charles Dickens's "The Magic Fishbone," we find an unusually pragmatic princess who uses her one wish only after she has tried to solve her family's problems through hard work. Angela Carter's "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon" is a "Beauty and the Beast" tale with a contemporary twist, in which Beauty leaves Beast to live the high life, becoming a society brat who "smiled at herself in mirrors too much." And in T.H. White's "The Troll," we find out how his father killed the troll that tried to eat him. In these enchanting pages we also see how modern writers have taken the classic fairy tale and adapted it to their times in a variety of ways. Francis Browne, for example, takes a poke at Victorian standards of beauty in "The Story of Fairyfoot," about a young prince who is cast out of the kingdom of Stumpinghame because, unlike the fashion of the town, his feet are too small. Some writers, such as Ursula Le Guin, have taken familiar myths and turned them upside down. In Le Guin's "The Wife's Story," a mother sees the horrible transformation of her husband into "the hateful one", and then watches her sister and neighbors mob and kill this "creature whose hair had begun to come away all over his body...the eyes gone blue...staring at me out of that flat, soft, white face." And L.F. Baum's "The Queen of Quok," contains a castle and royal characters in a kingdom run by common sense and small-town American values. At one point the boy king of Quok has to borrow a dime from his counsellor to buy a ham sandwich, and greed transforms his young queen-to-be into a haggard old woman. With tales from the likes of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Carl Sandburg, James Thurber, Donald Barthelme, Louise Erdrich, and many more, The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales brings us through the modern-day world of the supernatural, the mystical, the moral, and reminds us that fairy tales are still very much alive.

A nautical tour-de-force featuring tales by some of the outstanding writers of the genre, including: Jonathan Swift Charles Dickens Daniel Defoe Robert Louis Stevenson Edage Allan Poe Herman Melville Francois Rabelais Jules Verne Dante Alighieri Giovanni Boccaccio Christopher Columbus Sir Walter Raleigh

An outstanding array of crime fiction by some of today's leading authors is accompanied by short stories from the acclaimed writers who inspired them and features works by Ian Rankin, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Higgins Clark, Evan Hunter, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, and other notables.

Full of observations natives will appreciate, but also the ideal souvenir for tourists, this book is designed with vintage art and packed with literary excerpts, poems, facts, songs, quotes, legends, and recipes celebrating the Golden State. Literary Excerpts for authors such as Joan Didion, Jack London, John Steinbeck, and Amy Tan. Poems by the likes of Robert Hass, John Muir, and Walt Whitman. Fact Spreads including Famous Californians, Moments in History, Earthquakes, and Surf's Up. Song Lyrics including " I Left My Heart in San Francisco, "California Girls," and "San Andreas Fault." Legends and Lore of everything you ever wanted to know about California, including the building of San Francisco's bridges, the Gold Rush, the Water Wars, and Hollywood. Recipes for California nouveau classics like BBQ Chicken Pizza, California Rolls, and Chinese Chicken Salad join more traditional fare such as Crab Louis and Fish Tacos. Vintage Americana postcard and paper ephemera that illustrates eras of time gone by.

Written by one of the most important writers of the twentieth century, Lovecraft's 1927 essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature" traces the evolution of the genre from the early Gothic novels through to the work of contemporary American and British authors. Throughout Lovecraft acknowledges those writers and stories that are the very finest that the horror field has to offer: Edgar Allen Poe, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, and Arthur Conan Doyle, among others. This chilling new collection also contains Henry James' wonderfully atmospheric short novel The Turn of the Screw . Stephen Jones is the winner of three World Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards, three International Horror Guild Award, and a fifteen-time recipient of the British Fantasy Award. He lives in London.

In his acclaimed collection Tales Before Tolkien , Douglas A. Anderson illuminated the sources, inspirations, and influences that fired J.R.R. Tolkien’s genius. Now Anderson turns his attention to Tolkien’s colleague and friend C. S. Lewis, whose influence on modern fantasy, through his beloved Narnia books, is second only to Tolkien’s own. In many ways, Lewis’s influence has been even wider than Tolkien’s. For in addition to the Narnia series, Lewis wrote groundbreaking works of science fiction, urban fantasy, and religious allegory, and he came to be regarded as among the most important Christian writers of the twentieth century. It will come as no surprise, then, that such a wide-ranging talent drew inspiration from a variety of sources. Here are twenty of the tributaries that fed Lewis’s unique talent, among them: “The Wood That Time Forgot: The Enchanted Wood,” taken from a never-before-published fantasy by Lewis’s biographer and friend, Roger Lancelyn Green, that directly inspired The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; E. Nesbit’s charming “The Aunt and Amabel,” in which a young girl enters another world by means of a wardrobe; “The Snow Queen,” by Hans Christian Andersen, featuring the abduction of a young boy by a woman as cruel as she is beautiful; and many more, including works by Charles Dickens, Kenneth Grahame, G. K. Chesterton, and George MacDonald, of whom Lewis would write, “I have never concealed the fact that I regarded him as my master.” Full of fascinating insights into Lewis’s life and fiction, Tales Before Narnia is the kind of book that will be treasured by children and adults alike and passed down lovingly from generation to generation. INCLUDING SEVENTEEN MORE WORKS BY THE PROGENITORS OF MODERN FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION: “Tegnér’s Drapa” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Magic Mirror” by George MacDonald “Undine” by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué “Letters from Hell: Letter III” by Valdemar Thisted “Fastosus and Avaro” by John Macgowan “The Tapestried Chamber; or, The Lady in the Sacque” by Sir Walter Scott “The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton” by Charles Dickens “The Child and the Giant” by Owen Barfield “A King’s Lesson” by William Morris “The Waif Woman: A Cue—From a Saga” by Robert Louis Stevenson “First Whisper of The Wind in the Willows ” by Kenneth Grahame “The Wish House” by Rudyard Kipling “Et in Sempiternum Pereant” by Charles Williams “The Dragon’s Visit” by J.R.R. Tolkien “The Coloured Lands” by G. K. Chesterton “The Man Who Lived Backwards” by Charles F. Hall “The Dream Dust Factory” by William Lindsay Gresham

Thousands of pages of classic horror are collected in this large Kindle collection. An active table of contents is included to make it easy to navigate to the work you are looking for. Authors and works include: Ernest Theodore Amadeus Hoffmann The Deserted House The Sand-Man Richard Marsh The Beetle, A Mystery The Disappearance of Mrs. Macrecham, The Amazing Story of a Strange Cat The Great Temptation Marvels and Mysteries Tom Ossington's Ghost Robert Louis Stevenson Across The Plains An Inland Voyage Ballads The Black Arrow The Body-Snatcher Catriona, A Sequel to Kidnapped Fables A Footnote to History, Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa In the South Seas Island Nights' Entertainments Kidnapped Lay Morals Master of Ballantrae Memories and Portraits The Merry Men, and Other Tales and Fables Moral Emblems New Arabian Nights Prince Otto, A Romance Records of a Family of Engineers The Sea Fogs The Silverado Squatters St Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Tales and Fantasies Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes Treasure Island Underwoods Virginibus Puerisque The Waif Woman Weir of Hermiston, An Unfinished Romance Sabine Baring-Gould Bladys of the Stewponey The Book of Were-Wolves The Broom-Squire Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe The Frobishers, A Story of the Staffordshire Potteries In Troubador-Land, A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent, A Complete Course of 66 Short Sermons, or Full Sermon Outlines for Each Sunday, and Some Chief Holy Days of the Christian Year Sargent Kayme Anting-Anting Stories

An anthology of 50 classic novellas with an active table of contents to make it easy to quickly find the book you are looking for. Works include: At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft Anthem by Ayn Rand The Aspern Papers by Henry James The Awakening by Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy Bartleby, The Scrivener by Herman Melville The Beach of Falesa by Robert Louis Stevenson The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James Benito Cereno by Herman Melville Billy Budd by Herman Melville The Call of the Wild by Jack London A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett The Coxon Fund by Henry James Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts by Henry James The Dead by James Joyce The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Freya of the Seven Isles by Joseph Conrad The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Lady Susan by Jane Austen How the Two Ivans Quarreled by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol The Lesson of the Master by Henry James The Lifted Veil by George Eliot A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling Mathilda by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley May Day by F. Scott Fitzgerald Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Michael Kohlhaas, Translated by Frances A. King My Life by Anton Chekhov Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson The Scarlet Plague by Jack London The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad The Shadow Out of Time by H.P. Lovecraft The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft Siddhartha by Herman Hesse The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson The Trip of Le Horla by Guy de Maupassant The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane The Touchstone by Edith Wharton The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Voodoo Planet by Andrew North War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells The Willows by Algernon Blackwood A Passionate Pilgrim by Henry James DISCLAIMER: There has been concern about the table of contents (or lack thereof) in the "50 Classic Books" Series. Golgotha Press has addressed this problem and readers who download the books as of November 2011 can access a functional table of contents by going to the front of the book and paging forward two pages. Because of the size of this book, the "active" feature in the conversion is removed. We are trying resolve this problem, but until then, please follow the steps above. If you still experience the problem, please contact us so we can investigate exactly what is happening. Please note, however, that the table of contents does not become active until you purchase the book--preview mode does not currently support active TOC's. We apologize for any confusion or frustration this has caused.

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First imagined in the 1960s but never published, this collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's essays, fables and short stories was imagined by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares – a collection of their favourite works of non-fiction, short stories and fables. The themes – integrity, intellectual and imaginative truth, literary meaning, the fantastic – are common to all three authors, and these connections are explored in an introduction by Kevin MacNeil. Including such classic tales as 'The Bottle Imp' and rare essays on crime, morality, dreams and romance, Robert Louis Stevenson: The Argentina Edition is rich, eloquent and utterly readable.

This anthology includes the following classical historical adventure novels: THE TREASURE OF THE INCAS BY G. A. HENTY SPANISH DOUBLOONS BY CAMILLA KENYON BLACK BARTLEMY'S TREASURE BY JEFFERY FARNOL MARTIN CONISBY'S VENGEANCE BY JEFFERY FARNOL TREASURE ISLAND BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ADVENTURES OF HANS STERK BY A.W. DRAYSON THE FILIBUSTERS BY CHARLES JOHN CUTCLIFFE HYNE

The Greatest Books of All Time Vol. 4 contains the following 10 Masterpieces : A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne Daniel Deronda - George Eliot King Lear - William Shakespeare Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - Henry Fielding The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins with HTML Tables Of Contents Be sure to check out our other books available !

Christmas and ghost stories go hand in hand. In this second collection of ghost stories, each tale takes place either on the big day itself or very close to it. The Stories to make you Shudder collection of books is a nostalgic nod of appreciation to the classic collection of tales very popular in the 1970s. Grab a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie and open this book and have a festive shudder.

Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from a richly literary land, where the short story has flourished for over two centuries. Here are chilling supernatural stories from Robert Louis Stevenson, Eric Linklater and Dorothy K. Haynes; side-splittingly funny stories from Alasdair Gray and Irvine Welsh; a stylish offering from urban realist William McIlvanney. Iain Crichton Smith evokes the Gaelic-speaking highlands, George Mackay-Brown the Orkney islands, Andrew O'Hagan working-class Glasgow; while Leila Aboulela, originally from Sudan, ponders the relations between colonizers and colonized from her home in Aberdeen. Though there is no one 'Scottishness' that binds the authors together, writes editor Gerard Carruthers, each has a Scottish footprint or accent. And perhaps more importantly, all are masters of their form.