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Your purchase helps fund free educational resources at BompaCrazy.com!!The Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Story Collection contains 142 short stories written and/or published between 1897 and 1921.A Case of Trespass,A Christmas Inspiration,A Christmas Mistake,A Strayed Allegiance,An Invitation Given on Impulse,Detected by the Camera,In Spite of Myself,Kismet,Lillian's Business Venture,Miriam's Lover,Miss Calista's Peppermint Bottle,The Jest that Failed,The Pennington's Girl,The Red Room,The Setness of Theodosia,The Story of an Invitation,The Touch of Fate,The Waking of Helen,The Way of the Winning of Anne,Young Si,A Patent Medicine Testimonial,A Sandshore Wooing,After Many Days,An Unconventional Confidence,Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket,Davenport's Story,Emily's Husband,Min,Miss Cordelia's Accommodation,Ned's Stroke of Business,Our Runaway Kite,The Bride Roses,The Josephs' Christmas,The Magical Bond of the Sea,The Martyrdom of Estella,The Old Chest at Wyther Grange,The Osborne's Christmas,The Romance of Aunt Beatrice,The Running Away of Chester,The Strike at Putney,The Unhappiness of Miss Farquhar,Why Mr. Cropper Changed His Mind,A Fortunate Mistake,An Unpremeditated Ceremony,At the Bay Shore Farm,Elizabeth's Child,Freda's Adopted Grave,How Don Was Saved,Miss Madeline's Proposal,Miss Sally's Company,Mrs. March's Revenge,Nan,Natty of Blue Point,Penelope's Party Waist,The Girl and the Wild Race,The Promise of Lucy Ellen,The Pursuit of the Ideal,The Softening of Miss Cynthia,Them Notorious Pigs,Why Not Ask Miss Price?,A Correspondence and a Climax,An Adventure on Island Rock,At Five O'Clock in the Morning,Aunt Susanna's Birthday Celebration,Bertie's New Year,Between the Hill and the Valley,Clorinda's Gifts,Cyrilla's Inspiration,Dorinda's Desperate Deed,Her Own People,Ida's New Year Cake,In the Old Valley,Jane Lavinia,Mackereling Out in the Gulf,Millicent's Double,The Blue North Room,The Christmas Surprise at Enderly Road,The Dissipation of Miss Ponsonby,The Falsoms' Christmas Dinner,The Fraser Scholarship,The Girl at the Gate,The Light on the Big Dipper,The Prodigal Brother,The Redemption of John Churchill,The Schoolmaster's Letter,The Story of Uncle Dick,The Understanding of Sister Sara,The Unforgotten One,The Wooing of Bessy,Their Girl Josie,When Jack and Jill Took a Hand,A Millionaire's Proposal,A Substitute Journalist,Anna's Love Letters,Aunt Caroline's Silk Dress,Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner,By Grace of Julius Caesar,By the Rule of Contrary,Fair Exchange and No Robbery,Four Winds,Marcella's Reward,Margaret's Patient,Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves,Missy's Room,Ted's Afternoon Off,The Girl Who Drove the Cows,The Doctor's Sweetheart,The End of the Young Family Feud,The Genesis of the Doughnut Club,The Growing Up of Cornelia,The Old Fellow's Letter,The Parting of the Ways,The Promissory Note,The Revolt of Mary Isabel,The Twins and a Wedding,A Golden Wedding,A Redeeming Sacrifice,A Soul that Was Not At Home,Abel And His Great Adventure,Akin to Love,Aunt Philippa and the Men,Bessie's Doll,Charlotte's Ladies,Christmas at Red Butte,How We Went to the Wedding,Jessamine,Miss Sally's Letter,My Lady Jane,Robert Turner's Revenge,The Fillmore Elderberries,The Finished Story,The Garden of Spices,The Girl and the Photograph,The Gossip of Valley View,The Letters,The Life-Book of Uncle Jesse,The Little Black Doll,The Man on the Train,The Romance of Jedediah,The Tryst of the White Lady,Uncle Richard's New Year Dinner,and White Magic!!!

• The book includes 10 unique illustrations that are relevant to its content.Robinson Crusoe /ˌrɒbɪnsən ˈkruːsoʊ/ is a novel by Daniel Defoe that was first published in 1719. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued.The story was perhaps influenced by Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on the Pacific island called "Más a Tierra" (in 1966 its name was changed to Robinson Crusoe Island), Chile. The details of Crusoe's island were probably based on the Caribbean island of Tobago, since that island lies a short distance north of the Venezuelan coast near the mouth of the Orinoco river, in sight of Trinidad. It is also likely that Defoe was inspired by the Latin or English translations of Ibn Tufail's Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, an earlier novel also set on a desert island. Another source for Defoe's novel may have been Robert Knox's account of his abduction by the King of Ceylon in 1659 in "An Historical Account of the Island Ceylon," Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons (Publishers to the University), 1911. Although inspired by a real life event, it was the first notable work of literature where the story was independent of mythology, history, legends, or previous literature.

Rip Van WinkleThe story of Rip Van Winkle is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War. In a pleasant village, at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains, lives the kindly Rip Van Winkle, a colonial British-American villager.Go BompaCrazy!After a failed business venture with his brothers, Irving filed for bankruptcy in 1818. Despondent, he turned to writing for possible financial support, though he had difficulty thinking of stories to write. He stayed in Birmingham, England with his brother-in-law Henry Van Wart. The two were reminiscing in June 1818 when Irving was suddenly inspired by their nostalgic conversation. Irving locked himself in his room and wrote non-stop all night. As he said, he felt like a man waking from a long sleep. He presented the first draft of "Rip Van Winkle" to the Van Wart family over breakfast.The Legend of Sleepy HollowThe story is set in 1790 in the countryside around the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town (historical Tarrytown, New York), in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. Sleepy Hollow is renowned for its ghosts and the haunting atmosphere that pervades the imaginations of its inhabitants and visitors.Irving, while he was an aide-de-camp to New York Gov. Daniel D. Tompkins, met an army captain named Ichabod Crane in Sackets Harbor, New York during an inspection tour of fortifications in 1814. He may have patterned the character in "The Legend" after Jesse Merwin, who taught at the local schoolhouse in Kinderhook, further north along the Hudson River, where Irving spent several months in 1809.The story was the longest one published as part of The Sketch Book, which Irving issued using the pseudonym "Geoffrey Crayon" in 1820. Alongside "Rip Van Winkle," The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is one of Irving's most anthologized, studied, and adapted sketches. Both stories are often paired together in books and other representations, and both are included in surveys of early American literature and Romanticism. Irving's depictions of regional culture and his themes of progress versus tradition, supernatural intervention in the commonplace, and the plight of the individual outsider in a homogeneous community permeate both stories and helped to develop a unique sense of American cultural and existential selfhood during the early nineteenth century.Go BompaCrazy!The Legend of Sleepy Hollow follows a tradition of folk tales and poems involving a supernatural wild chase The headless horseman has been a motif of European folklore since at least the Middle Ages.The Irish dullahan or dulachán ("dark man") is a headless fairy, usually riding a black horse and carrying his head under one arm (or holding it high to see at great distance). He wields a whip made from a human corpse's spine. When the dullahan stops riding, a death occurs. The dullahan calls out a name, at which point the named person immediately perishes. In another version, he is the headless driver of a black carriage. A similar figure, the gan ceann ("without a head"), can be frightened away by wearing a gold object or casting one in his path.The German Legends of the Brothers Grimm (Deutsche Sagen) recount two German folk tales of a headless horseman being spotted with their own eyes.One is set near Dresden in eastern Germany. In this tale, a woman from Dresden goes out early one Sunday morning to gather acorns in a forest. At a place called "Lost Waters", she hears a hunting horn. When she hears it again, she turns around she sees a headless man in a long grey coat sitting on a grey horse.In another German tale, set in Braunschweig, a headless horseman called "the wild huntsman" blows a horn which warns hunters not to ride the next day, because they will meet with an accident.In some German versions of the headless horseman, he seeks out the perpetrators of capital crimes. In others, he has a pack of black hounds with tongues of fire.

"A Scandal in Bohemia" was the first of Arthur Conan Doyle's 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories to be published in The Strand Magazine and the first Sherlock Holmes story illustrated by Sidney Paget. (Two of the four Sherlock Holmes novels – A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four – preceded the short story cycle). Doyle ranked "A Scandal in Bohemia" fifth in his list of his twelve favourite Holmes stories.The story itself is basically a rewrite of Allan Poe's short story The Purloined Letter.Go BompaCrazy!Conan Doyle was also a fervent advocate of justice and personally investigated two closed cases, which led to two men being exonerated of the crimes of which they were accused. The first case, in 1906, involved a shy half-British, half-Indian lawyer named George Edalji who had allegedly penned threatening letters and mutilated animals. Police were set on Edalji's conviction, even though the mutilations continued after their suspect was jailed.The second case, that of Oscar Slater, a German Jew and gambling-den operator convicted of bludgeoning an 82-year-old woman in Glasgow in 1908, excited Conan Doyle's curiosity because of inconsistencies in the prosecution case and a general sense that Slater was not guilty. He ended up paying most of the costs for Slater's successful appeal in 1928.Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.Go BompaCrazy!Conan Doyle was friends for a time with Harry Houdini, the American magician who himself became a prominent opponent of the Spiritualist movement in the 1920s following the death of his beloved mother. Although Houdini insisted that Spiritualist mediums employed trickery (and consistently exposed them as frauds), Conan Doyle became convinced that Houdini himself possessed supernatural powers—a view expressed in Conan Doyle's The Edge of the Unknown. Houdini was apparently unable to convince Conan Doyle that his feats were simply illusions, leading to a bitter public falling out between the two.

"The author returned to the tone of his first novels, Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847). Redburn is a semi-autobiographical novel concerning the sufferings of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. This theme of a youth confronted by realities and evils for which he is unprepared—or incorrectly prepared by both family and American institutions—is a prominent one in Melville's works. While not generally considered as profound as Melville's later works, the most notable being Moby-Dick, the novel can be viewed as a precursor to later, more complex works of fiction. For example, many of Redburn's themes are echoed in Moby-Dick, and some of Redburn's characters are forerunners of those in Melville's most epic novel (e.g., Jackson is a precursor of Captain Ahab). With Redburn, Melville was hastily trying to return to a more commercial format after having taken a critical and commercial drubbing with his allegorical novel Mardi, which had been published earlier in the year. Melville leaves behind the complex structures in Mardi, a book that never quite gelled, for a more straightforward and travelogue-like narrative in the traditions of his earliest work. The novel does, however, display some of the more experimental tendencies that made Moby-Dick so popular after Melville's death, and begins to incorporate much of the symbolism that separates his earlier work from later, denser novels such as Pierre. Melville also takes the opportunity in Redburn to make a number of social criticisms, perhaps most prominent among them both explicit and implicit attacks on the evils of drink. Oddly enough, Redburn also contains one of the notable examples of spontaneous combustion in literature, along with Charles Dickens' Bleak House." -Wikipedia.

Your purchase helps fund free educational resources at BompaCrazy!!! This collection contains: The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers and The Prairie. The Leatherstocking saga takes place in upstate New York during the 18th century. The historical relevance of Cooper's tales is fascinating as it deals with early conflicts between Native Americans and European settlers. The fiction is equally relevant as an example of the Romantic movement in American Literature. "The Leatherstocking Tales is a series of novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper, each featuring the main hero Natty Bumppo, known by European settlers as "Leatherstocking," 'The Pathfinder", and "the trapper" and by the Native Americans as "Deerslayer," "La Longue Carabine" and "Hawkeye"." -Wikipedia.

"Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American writer of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the Twenties. He finished four novels, including The Great Gatsby, with another published posthumously, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age. The 1920s proved the most influential decade of Fitzgerald's development.The Great Gatsby, considered his masterpiece, was published in 1925. Fitzgerald made several excursions to Europe, notably Paris and the French Riviera, and became friends with many members of the American expatriate community in Paris, notably Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway looked up to Fitzgerald as an experienced professional writer. Hemingway greatly admired The Great Gatsby and wrote in his A Moveable Feast "If he could write a book as fine as The Great Gatsby I was sure that he could write an even better one" (153). Hemingway expressed his deep admiration for Fitzgerald, and Fitzgerald's flawed, self-defeating character, when he prefaced his chapters concerning Fitzgerald in A Moveable Feast with: His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless. (129) Much of what Hemingway wrote in A Moveable Feast helped to establish the myth of Fitzgerald's dissipation and loss (of ability, social control, and life) and Zelda's hand in that demise. Though the bulk of Hemingway's text is factually correct, it is also colored by his disappointment in Fitzgerald, as well as Hemingway's own rivalrous response towards any competitor, living or dead. That disappointment was most evident in The Green Hills of Africa, where he specifically mentions Fitzgerald as an archetypal ruined American writer; Hemingway had been both shocked and unnerved by Fitzgerald's account of his own difficulties in his nonfiction essays and notebooks from the 1930s, published as The Crack-Up (with Edmund Wilson as editor) in 1945. Fitzgerald’s friendship with Hemingway was quite vigorous and as many of Fitzgerald’s relationships would prove to be. (As, indeed, were many of the thrice-divorced Hemingway's.) Hemingway did not get on well with Zelda, either. He claimed that she “encouraged her husband to drink so as to distract Scott from his ‘real’ work on his novel," the other work being the short stories he sold to magazines. This “whoring”, as Fitzgerald, and subsequently Hemingway, called these sales, was a sore point in the authors’ friendship. Fitzgerald claimed that he would first write his stories in an authentic manner but then put in “twists that made them into saleable magazine stories.” " Wikipedia.

>Horror by Poe contains the following tales:METZENGERSTEIN, THE ASSIGNATION, BERENICE, MORELLA, KING PEST, SHADOW—A PARABLE, LIGEIA, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, WILLIAM WILSON, THE MAN OF THE CROWD, THE OVAL PORTRAIT, THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, THE TELL-TALE HEART, THE BLACK CAT, THE PREMATURE BURIAL, THE OBLONG BOX, THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE, THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR, THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO, and HOP-FROG

Your purchase helps fund free educational resources at BompaCrazy.com!!! The Edgar Allan Poe Collection contains the following short stories: The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfall, The Gold Bug, Four Beasts in One, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt, The Balloon Hoax, MS. Found in a Bottle, The Oval Portrait, The Purloined Letter, The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade, A Descent into the Maelstroem, Von Kempelen and his Discovery, Mesmeric Revelation, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher, Silence--a Fable, The Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado, The Imp of the Perverse, The Island of the Fay, The Assignation, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Premature Burial, The Domain of Arnheim, Landor's Cottage, William Wilson, The Tell-Tale Heart, Berenice, Eleonora

-40 Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth-Unique FormatYour purchase helps fund free classic literature and educational resources at BompaCrazy.com!!!!!!!!!!!!Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold". First published as a book on 23rd May 1883, it was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881–82 under the title Treasure Island; or, the mutiny of the Hispaniola and the pseudonym Captain George North.Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, it is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, character and action, and also a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality—as seen in Long John Silver—unusual for children's literature then and now. It is one of the most frequently dramatised of all novels. The influence of Treasure Island on popular perception of pirates is vast, including treasure maps with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen with parrots on their shoulders.