A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling.
Table of Contents
As Easy as A.B.C.
MacDonough’s Song
Friendly Brook
The Land
In the Same Boat
‘Helen all Alone’
The Honours of War
The Children
The Dog Hervey
The Comforters
The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat
The Press
In The Presence
Jobson’s Amen
Regulus
A Translation
The Edge of the...
Orientations by William Somerset Maugham, author of Liza of Lambeth, The Making of a Saint.
Table of Content:
The Punctiliousness of Don Sebastian
A bad example
De Amicitia
Faith
The choice of amyntas
Daisy
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in December 1899, and was subsequently published by Harper & Brothers in the collection The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Sketches (1900). Twain actually encouraged it to be read as a replay of the Garden of Eden story in a satiric sense.
Hadleyburg enjoys...
A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde once said that this collection was "intended neither for the British child nor the British public."
The stories included in this collection are as follows:
The Young King
The Birthday of...
Plain Tales from the Hills (published 1888) is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, "eight-and-twenty", according to Kipling's Preface, were initially published in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, Punjab, British India, between November 1886 and June 1887. "The remaining tales are, more or less, new." (Kipling had worked as a journalist for the...
I arrived in Dublin on the evening of the fifth of August, and drove to the residence of my uncle, the Cardinal Archbishop. He is like most of my family, deficient in feeling, and consequently averse to me personally. He lives in a dingy house, with a side-long view of the portico of his cathedral from the front windows, and of a monster national school from the back. My uncle maintains no...
The highly influential author Louisa May cott wrote the one of the most famous books, A Modern Cinderella Or, The Little Old Shoe And Other Stories.
This literary work is considered to be one of the best works of not only the period, but of all time. The book would later go on to be translated into hundreds of languages, distributed worldwide, and come to be part of popular culture for decades,...
Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. It can count both as historical fantasy – since some of the stories told of the past have clear magical elements, and as contemporary fantasy – since it depicts a magical being active and practising his magic in the England of...
The Mysterious Stranger is the final novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain. He worked on it periodically from 1897 through 1908. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his ideas of the Moral Sense and the "damned human race".
Twain wrote multiple versions of the story; each is unfinished and involves the character of "Satan".
Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling
Table of Contents:
An Habitation Enforced
The Recall
Garm — A Hostage
The Power of the Dog
The Mother Hive
The Bees and the Flies
With the Night Mail
The Four Angels
A Deal in Cotton
The New Knighthood
The Puzzler
The Puzzler
Little Foxes
Gallio’s Song
The House Surgeon
The Rabbi’s Song
This book contains 9 short stories by F.Dostoevsky:
An Honest Thief
A Novel in Nine Letters
An Unpleasant Predicament
Another Man's Wife
The Heavenly Christmas Tree ...
The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales (published 1888) is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling.
The Phantom 'Rickshaw
After an affair with a Mrs. Agnes Keith-Wessington in Simla, the narrator, Jack, repudiates her and eventually becomes engaged to Miss Kitty Mannering. Yet Mrs. Wessington continually reappears in Jack's life, begging him to reconsider, insisting that it was...
After Dark is a collection of six short stories by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1856. It was the author's first collection of short stories. Five of the stories were previously published in Household Words, a magazine edited by Charles Dickens.
The stories are linked by a narrative framework.
At the beginning and end of the book are "Leaves from Leah's Diary": William Kerby, a travelling...
Soldiers Three is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. The three soldiers of the title are Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris, who had also appeared previously in the collection Plain Tales from the Hills. The current version, dating from 1899 and more fully titled Soldiers Three and other stories, consists of three sections which each had previously received separate publication in...
Swift took up his permanent residence in the Irish capital in 1714. The Harley Administration had fallen never to rise again. Harley himself was a prisoner in the Tower, and Bolingbroke a voluntary exile in France, and an open adherent of the Pretender. Swift came to Dublin to be met by the jeers of the populace, the suspicion of the government officials, and the polite indifference of his...
Spinning-Wheel Stories includes:
Grandma's Story
Tabby's Table-cloth
Eli's Education
Onawandah
Little Things
The Banner of Beaumanoir
Jerseys; or, the Girl's Ghost
The Little House in the Garden
Daisy's Jewel-box, and How She filled it
Corny's Catamount
The Cooking-Class
The Hare and the Tortoise
The Prussian Officer tells of a Captain and his orderly. Having wasted his youth gambling, the captain has been left with only his military career, and though he has taken on mistresses throughout his life, he remains single. His young orderly is involved in a relationship with a young woman, and the captain, feeling sexual tension towards the young man, prevents the orderly from engaging in the...
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906) is a collection of thirty comic short stories by the iconic American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The stories contained span the course of his career, from Advice to Young Girls in 1865 to the titular tale in 1904. Although Twain had ample time to refine his short stories between their original publication date and this collection, there is little...