Miniature Masterpieces: 58 books
by Anton Chekhov
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. A widespread favourite of scholars, critics and...
by Anton Chekhov
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. A widespread favourite of scholars, critics and...
by Deadtree Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales by writers Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, WI George, Jerome K Jerome and Rudyard Kipling to bear macabre and chilling witness to writers of a most excellent standard. These tales are designed to unsettle you, just a little, as you sit back,...
Henry James Short Stories Volume 11
Includes - The Wheel Of Time, A Round Of Visits, The Given Case, Collaborationand a unique and detailed biography.
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses to let his high standards drop and story retains the poise and simplicity...
Henry James Short Stories Volume 10
Includes - Owen Wingrave, The Velvet Glove, Poor Richardand a unique and detailed biography.
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses to let his high standards drop and story retains the poise and simplicity...
by Anton Chekhov
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. A widespread favourite of scholars, critics and...
by Lyman Frank Baum
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A Kidnapped Santa Claus is a Christmas-themed short story written by L. Frank Baum who is most famous for creating The Wizard Of Oz. It has been called "one of Baum's most beautiful stories" and first published in the December 1904 edition of The Delineator women's magazine. Santa Claus has been kidnapped...
by Anthony Hope
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope was born on February 9th 1863. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels and although he wrote 32 volumes of fiction our memory of him rests almost entirely on two: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and Rupert of Hentzau (1898). After...
by Anthony Hope
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope was born on February 9th 1863. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels and although he wrote 32 volumes of fiction our memory of him rests almost entirely on two: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and Rupert of Hentzau (1898). After...
by Lyman Frank Baum
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
He was fascinated by printing and early on was given a printing press from which he produced a number of journals. By age 20 he managed to combine his love of printing with that of poultry breeding, in particular a variety called The Hamburg, to produce the The Poultry Record, (In 1886, when Baum was...
Henry James Short Stories Volume 13
Includes - Rose-Agathe, The Impressions Of A Cousin, Maud-Evelynand a unique and detailed biography.
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses to let his high standards drop and story retains the poise and simplicity...
Henry James Short Stories Volume 2
Includes - Mrs Medwin, The Special Type, A London Lifeand a unique and detailed biography.
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses to let his high standards drop and story retains the poise and simplicity...
Henry James Short Stories Volume 3
Includes - Julia Bride, Madame De Mauves, The Third Personand a unique and detailed biography.
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses to let his high standards drop and story retains the poise and simplicity...
Henry James Short Stories Volume 4
Includes - Brooksmith, The Liar, The Bench Of Desolationand a unique and detailed biography.
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses to let his high standards drop and story retains the poise and simplicity...