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The story of Barnabas Barty, son of John Barty, former champion boxer of England and landlord of a pub in Kent. At the start of the tale Barnabas comes into possession of a vast fortune and determines to become a gentleman. His father objects, they quarrel, and settle their differences in a round...

Though American literary master Henry James was an ardent proponent of realistic story elements that readers could relate to, many of his works also deal with the question of perception and how our senses and beliefs can influence the way we see the world. It's a running theme in the four short stories collected in James' Embarrassments.

Mayor's Parlour book is written by Author J. S. Fletcher

The assertion that beautiful music shares a mysterious connection with the human soul is not a new one. For thousands of years, ever since our distant ancestors first began making pleasing sounds with whatever rudimentary implements they could lay their hands on, music has been an important part of...

Sometimes, it's not the lingering relationships that stick in our memories, but rather the brief, fleeting encounters. In the brilliant short story Four Meetings, literary master Henry James explores an intense infatuation that ran its entire course in only four meetings.

A classic pirate tale of the Spanish Main, featuring the female pirate, Captain Jo, this continuation of "Black Bartelmy's Treasure" picks up the plot three years later.

Friends Ella and Madge have taken up residence in a long-deserted house that has a reputation for supernatural activity. After a series of strange run-ins with locals, the women are inclined to believe that the home may indeed be haunted. But is a ghost really the cause of their problems — or is it something else entirely?

The Mayor is running for Governor and his wife is troubled about something but he doesn't know what. He hires a companion for her, and asks the companion to help him get to the bottom of it.

A cantankerous trio of friends sets off on a grand nautical adventure, determined to see the world and shake off the lingering effects of the tragedies and disappointments that each of them have experienced in recent years. But when their boat voyage is thrown off course, they stumble across the vestiges...

The House of Heine Brothers was written in the year 1864 by Anthony Trollope. This book is one of the most popular novels of Anthony Trollope, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.

Hawthorne struggled in vain to complete this fragment of a romance for more than twenty years. Based on an old English legend of a bloody footprint, it illuminates many of the themes Hawthorne touched on in his greatest works, as well as his methods of composition. It was published posthumously in 1883.

Booth Tarkington's first novel, The Gentleman From Indiana, lays out a number of the recurring themes that would reappear in many of the author's later works, including a Midwestern setting and a highly moral protagonist who battles against forces of evil which are often symptomatic of deeper problems...

Though he is today best remembered as the author of the classic Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage, American author Stephen Crane was widely lauded as one of the foremost practitioners of the short-story format in the early twentieth century. This fine collection brings together a number of...

Written for the Atlantic magazine in 1877, this is a collection of stories about a trip Mark Twain made with some friends to Bermuda.