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This story was the first which William Sydney Poerter published under the pseudonym O. Henry, and appeared in the December 1899 issue of McClure's Magazine. It was later collected in Roads of Destiny, of which the earliest edition in the Library of Congress catalog was in 1913.

"The Elves and the Shoemaker" is an often copied and re-made 1806 story about a poor shoemaker who receives much-needed help from elves. The original story is the first of three fairy tales, contained as entry 39 in the German Grimm's Fairy Tales under the common title "Die Wichtelmänner"....

Contents: 1. Edward the Second, by Christopher Marlowe 2. Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and The Tempest, by William Shakespeare Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)

El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha La Galatea Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda Novelas ejemplares Viaje del Parnaso

A dystopia is an unpleasant (typically repressive) society, often propagandized as being utopian. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction states that dystopian works depict a negative view of "the way the world is supposedly going in order to provide urgent propaganda for a change in direction." This Golden...

The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Most humans welcome...

"The Green Meadow" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Winifred V. Jackson written in 1918/1919 and published in the spring 1927 issue of The Vagrant. As in their other collaboration, "The Crawling Chaos", both authors used pseudonyms — the tale was published as by "Elizabeth...

"The Descendant" is a story fragment by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in 1927.[1] It was first published in the journal Leaves in 1938, after Lovecraft's death.

The French Revolution (French: Révolution française) was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France that lasted from 1789 until 1799, and was partially carried forward by Napoleon during the later expansion of the French Empire. This Golden Deer Classics comprises the following...

Contents: 1. Vanity Fair, part 1, by William Makepeace Thackeray Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)

Contents: 1. Vanity Fair, part 2, by William Makepeace Thackeray Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)

Contents: A.M. CHISHOLM A Thousand a Plate A.M. WILLIAMSON The Eccentricity of Fleetwood ACHMED ABDULLAH The Home-Coming ARTHUR TRAIN The Escape of Wilkins ARTHUR TRAIN The Governor-General's Trunk BUCK CONNOR Get Your Man CHARLES BEADLE John O'Damn CHARLES E. VAN LOAN Water Stuff E.NESBIT The Dwellers...

A year or so before the beginning of World War I, a young woman named Lisa la Giuffria is seduced by a white magician, Cyril Grey, and persuaded into helping him in a magical battle with a black magician and his black lodge. Grey is attempting to raise the level of his force by impregnating the girl...

Contents: 1. An account of Egypt from The Histories, by Herodotus 2. Germany, by Tacitus 3. Sir Francis Drake Revived, by Philip Nichols 4. Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World, by Francis Pretty 5. Drake's Great Armada, by Captain Walter Bigges 6. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland,...