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  • Sanditon and Other Stories

    Jane Austen

    eBook (Girlebooks, Feb. 7, 2009)
    Also known as “Sand and Sanditon”, this unfinished novel was written in 1817, the last year of Jane Austen’s life. The novel ends at CHAPTER 11, after a promising introduction of the seaside village of Sanditon, a few major characters, and several intriguing minor characters.This ebook also includes The Watsons, Lady Susan, Frederic and Elfrida, Love and Freindship, Lesley Castle. The History of England, A Collection of Letters, and Scraps.
  • Typhoon and Other Stories

    Joseph Conrad

    eBook (Penguin, Aug. 2, 2007)
    In these four stories, written between 1900 and 1902, Joseph Conrad bid gradual farewell to his adventurous life at sea and began to confront the more daunting complexities of life on land in the twentieth century. In 'Typhoon' Conrad reveals, in the steadfast courage of an undemonstrative captain and the imaginative readiness of his young first mate, the differences between instinct and intelligence in a partnership vital to human survival. 'Falk', the companion sea-story, contrasts, as Conrad once put it, 'common sentimentalism with the frank standpoint of a more or less primitive man', a man with a conscience, however, about the girl he desires. In one of the 'land-stories' Conrad explores the utter isolation of an East European emigrant in England; in the other, the plight of a woman ironically trapped by the unwitting alliance of two retired widowers - each blind in his own way.
  • Typhoon: And Other Stories

    Joseph Conrad

    Paperback (Independently published, June 21, 2020)
    Captain McWhirr is a serious man who runs his steamer, the Nan-Shan, with efficiency and solidity. When a storm appears to be headed in their direction, MacWhirr is not concerned about his ship’s ability to weather it, but, when the storm turns out to be a powerful typhoon which surges in across the Pacific Ocean headed straight for the Nan-Shan, MacWhirr and his crew must work together if they want to survive. This classic sea-faring story is believed to be based on author Joseph Conrad’s real experiences at sea when he sailed aboard the John P. Best steamer under Captain John MacWhir.
  • Xingu And Other Stories

    Edith Wharton, Henry Cadness, Marion Harland

    eBook (Duff Press, July 7, 2014)
    Xingu' is a short story about a woman's luncheon club devised as a means of keeping its members up to date with the latest goings on in the world. After the glamorous novelist Osric Dane stuns the other women with her bored disposition and blunt questions, the conversation is left stale – that is, until the previously quiet Mrs. Roby mentions the topic of Xingu. Thought mad by the rest of her peers, Mrs. Roby is suddenly engaged by a now-inquisitive Ms. Dane, and subsequently the rest of the party becomes entirely engrossed with the mystery of Xingu. A witty and veritably comical narrative sure to entertain all who read it, 'Xingu' is a masterpiece of short story-writing and is a must-read for fans of Wharton's seminal work. Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and designer. This antique book was originally published in 1916, and we are proud to republish it now, complete with a new introductory biography of the author.
  • Funny Stories: And Other Funny Stories

    Morris Gleitzman

    eBook (Penguin eBooks, Oct. 29, 2018)
    Swap a bomb for three ice-creams on a train, bounce on a vampire’s bed, eat a pizza that makes you fearless, read the secret diary of a dog, unleash the awesome power of chips, save ten lives with a paper clip, surprise your mum with a chainsaw, use a demolition ball to defeat a bully, live in a house that gets wiped clean more often than a bottom … and lots more!
  • Typhoon and Other Stories

    Joseph Conrad, Paul Kirschner

    Mass Market Paperback (Penguin Classics, Jan. 1, 1991)
    A selection of Conrad's works includes "Typhoon," "Amy Foster," "Falk: a Reminiscence," and "To-morrow"
  • Fat & Bones: And Other Stories

    Larissa Theule, Adam S. Doyle

    Hardcover (Carolrhoda Books ®, Oct. 1, 2014)
    Welcome to Bald's farm. Well, perhaps it's not Bald's farm anymore. The old man has kicked the bucket, setting off a wave of conflict from the flooded farmhouse kitchen to the muddy pig pen to the tall wheat fields. In this darkly funny, slightly supernatural chain of tales, no creature is safe. Not Leonard Grey, a spider with sophisticated tastes. Not Esmeralda, a resentful one-legged pig. Not Tulip, a plant with a mean streak. And as for Bones, the old man's son, and Fat, his winged rival? They'll learn that danger lurks in the strangest of places...
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  • Danger! and Other Stories

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    eBook (Spartacus Books, June 1, 2020)
    Danger! And Other Stories is a collection of short stories published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL was a British writer and medical doctor. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 when he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson.
  • Brownies and Other Stories

    Palmer Cox

    Paperback (Forgotten Books, Dec. 3, 2017)
    Excerpt from Brownies and Other StoriesThe Isle of Fun and Frolic was the home of the Brownie boys and girls, and no one can e'er deny that the island was well named. These youngsters had no thought but to run and play, to sleep and to eat. They loved the flowers and they loved the birds - and the butterflies led them lively chases in their games of hide and.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
  • Lilacs and other stories

    Frank Barone

    language (eFrog Press, Jan. 9, 2012)
    This eclectic collection of short stories by poet Frank Barone introduces readers to a variety of characters, and leaps from sweet reminisces at a grocery store counter to tales of the complicated life of a young woman in love. Barone’s simple prose and riveting storytelling will simultaneously take your breath away and warm your heart. Dive into these stories and spend an hour or seven roaming the California coastline and seeking adventures in the streets of Brooklyn. You won’t be sorry you did.
  • Goof and Other Stories

    Sean Enright

    language (, July 7, 2011)
    “Digby Shaw's going on 14 when these perhaps only lightly fictionalized 13 little memoirs begin. As they end, he's a few months older, emerging from the eighth grade year that is about over. What happens in between is an enchanting, clean-cut, fresh-served personal panorama of discovery -- of a wider world, of doubt about grown-ups' authority, of the tumults and turmoils of oncoming adolescence. But most of all, about growing up -- not all at once, but, rather, in an utterly convincing, osmotic manner. Enright grew up a Marylander, and the narrative clearly came from here, but there is a universality about the tales that may capture the hearts of anyone who has brought up an eighth grader or has been one.” (Michael Pakenham, The Baltimore Sun, Editor’s Choice)"Sometimes I wish that instead of being born the usual way, I had been flown through the solar system to earth and just dropped off here. It would be much simpler than having to have been nothing first. But I wasn't flown in. I was born, so I have to deal with it."Meet Digby Shaw, on the verge of turning teenager. Right now he’s still child enough to rage at the mere mention of Keebler dwarves. About to graduate from grade school, outlawed by his family, Digby’s every move at home is mysteriously known by his mother, and in the classroom he’s under the sharp eye of a powerful nun, twice the size of God, with a man’s name. And he has a theory his father doesn’t like him one bit.Nothing is safe anymore. Digby suffers every misfortune at school: embarrassed to perform in the school play about a saint, bullied by the local juvenile delinquent, trying to do good when his every other instinct is to be bad. He likes books, lighting fires, facts of all shapes and sizes, and tormenting his younger brother. And all of a sudden, to his bewilderment, Digby also seems to like girls. One girl in particular, his oldest friend’s sister. And still, her brother, his supposed friend, locks him in a box in the woods, just for fun. Only memory and love save Digby, and then only briefly. He would still rather just be cool."You see, I'm a goof. I'm klutzy with stuff that's heavy or fragile. I act like a guy when I'm with guys and like a girl when I'm with girls. I sweat a lot over nothing. Even my name is goofy. Digby Shaw. Shaw’s not so bad, but nobody ever even gets that far. 'Digby? Is that a word? Is that really your name?' No, a‑hole. I made it up so no one would ever know who I was."This is a funny book about being sad and in the dark. It’s also about what it’s like to grow up in a funny family. Digby is getting ready to walk out into a world that’s looking larger and fiercer to him every passing day. But he can’t help but feel a little fiercer himself as he goes along. And he’s certainly getting larger. "You know the Cheshire Cat? I'm the Cheshire Cat with love handles."
  • Contact: And Other Stories

    Frances Noyes Hart

    language (MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, May 5, 2020)
    Short stories of sophistication and psychological suspense, including an O. Henry Award winner.In the wake of the First World War, a young woman watches the sky for a pilot who didn’t come home. A wealthy bachelor becomes increasingly obsessed with a beautiful stranger at a Manhattan restaurant. A nervous wife awaits a fateful phone call on a stormy November night. These stories and five more showcase the literary skill of Frances Noyes Hart, author of The Crooked Lane and The Bellamy Trial, and one of the great literary talents of the early twentieth century.