The stories, previously printed in magazines such as Blackie's Children's Annual, are typical of Nesbit's arch, ironic, clever fantasies for children. The twelve stories: "The Cat-hood of Maurice" - a boy abuses the family cat, and learns to see things from the feline point of view. "The Mixed Mine" - two boys find a magic spyglass, and use it to make their fortunes. "Accidental Magic" - Quentin falls asleep on the altarstone at Stonehenge, and wakes in Atlantis.
"A fine example of Hamilton's skill in encapsulating an enormous theme into the neat and perfect compass of a short story." -Leigh Brackett As man evolves what changes will he undergo in a thousand years? A million or more?
The Thousand-And-Second Tale of Scheherazade is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. He was born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts; he was orphaned at a young age when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family.
"The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt".
Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "William Wilson," "The Black Cat," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "Eleonora". Here too is a major selection of what Poe characterized as the passion of his life, his poems - "The Raven," "Annabel Lee," Ulalume," "Lenore," "The Bells," and more, plus his glorious prose poem "Silence - A Fable" and only full-length novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.
The blackness of eternal night encompassed me. The intense darkness oppressed and stifled me so that I struggled for breath.Having been condemned to death by the Spanish Inquisition, the narrator descends into a kind of hell.
The Power of Words (+Biography and Bibliography) (6X9po Glossy Cover Finish):" OINOS. Pardon, Agathos, the weakness of a spirit new-fledged with immortality!AGATHOS. You have spoken nothing, my Oinos, for which pardon is to be demanded. Not even here is knowledge thing of intuition. For wisdom, ask of the angels freely, that it may be given!OINOS.
Edited and with an Introduction by Matthew Pearl Includes “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt,” and “The Purloined Letter”
"The Masque of the Red Death", originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy", is an 1842 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague, known as the Red Death, by hiding in his abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, hosts a masquerade ballwithin seven rooms of the abbey, each decorated with a different color.
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the true greats, a masterful poet and word-smith, Edgar is considered by many to be one of the greatest poets and writers of all time.
One of Edgar Allan Poe's most well-known and famous stories, The Cask of Amontillado gives a powerful understanding of what made Poe such a great writer and has led to him being considered a must-read.
This is a series of simplified stories, designed as an introduction to literature. The series offers classics, best-sellers, film-titles and original stories.
Tales of the Grotesque & Arabesque is Edgar Allan Poe's first published collection of short stories. It contains some of his most celebrated works, such as The Fall of the House of Usher, MS. Found in a Bottle and Berenice, as well as some of his most obscure and hilarious stories, such as Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Arm in a Sling and Bon-Bon. This edition of Poe's Tales of the Grotesque & Arabesque faithfully recreates the same order and content of Poe's original collection, first published in 1840.
This is a science fiction story by Forster. The story describes a world in which most of the human population has lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the Shadow: Psalm of David. Ye who read are still among the living; but I who write shall have long since gone my way into the region of shadows...
A maid at the exclusive Romance Island Resort, Audra knows how to handle rock stars, billionaires and celebrities. She keeps their secrets, cleans up their mess and makes sure their holiday is a memorable one.
Edward Morgan Forster was an English author best known for his writings concerning the early 20th century working class of Great Britain’s. Forster was born to a middle-class family in London and attended a prestigious public school before studying at King’s College of Cambridge University.
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* Book : The Virgin and the Gipsy * Biography * Bibliographiy The tale relates the story of two sisters, daughters of an Anglican vicar, who return from finishing school overseas to a drab, lifeless rectory in the East Midlands, not long after the World War I. Their mother has run off with another man, a scandal that is not talked about by the family, especially the girls' father, who was deeply humiliated and only remembers his wife as she was when they first met many years before.
