Books with title Skin And Other Stories

This collection of stories is an adaptation of several fairy tales originally collected by the Russian folklorist Alexander Afanasiev. In folk tales, the fox is often cunning and not at all trustworthy. Two of the stories feature these familiar characteristics. Will friendship and loyalty of the cat overcome the trickery of the fox? Will a sly fox get away with her misdeeds? The third tale presents a different picture of this same character. The hungry wolf has the power, but the fox may be able to outsmart him. Let’s find out what happens...

This early works on Xingu and other stories is an absorbing collection of literature. Contents include; Xingu, Coming home, Autres temps, Kerfol, The long Run, The triumph of night, The choice and Bunner sisters... Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The harrowing title tale from this collection recounts the experiences of an African-American coachman who becomes horribly disfigured after rescuing his employer's son from a fire. A study of race and tolerance as well as the challenges posed by deformity, this major work by the author of The Red Badge of Courage originally appeared in 1898. The last of Stephen Crane's work to be published in his lifetime, the story was rediscovered in the mid-twentieth century and acclaimed by Ralph Ellison as "one of the parents of the modern American novel."This volume also features two additional short stories by Crane: "The Blue Hotel," in which a nervous visitor is led astray by his own preconceptions about the Wild West, and "His New Mittens," the touching tale of a little boy who allows himself to be goaded into a snowball fight and attempts to outrun his mistake.

A collection of fourteen stories previously published in such magazines as The New Yorker and Playboy includes "The Kind Assassin," in which a radio shock jock sets a world record; "Dogology," in which an obsessed woman loses sight of her identity; and the title story, in which a man wins a vicious African cat in a bet. By the author of The Inner Circle. 35,000 first printing.

My Mother and Other Stories is a collection of twelve children’s short stories set in modern India. Filled with moral values, imagination and downright humour, each story beautifully balances the ordinary with the extraordinary. As well as making young readers laugh, these stories also make them think. The stories that make up this wonderful collection are: My Mother, Grandma and the crow, The brown puppy, The scout with a big heart, Pineapple of his eye, Our pot-bellied cook, Star tattoo, Ghosts do not exist, A Lovable ayah, The gift of sight, Dance like me, and The young artist.

This classic volume contains Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1918 collection of short stories, “Danger! And Other Stories”. The titular story describes a fictional European country that fights and defeats Britain, originally intended to highlight the new dangers of submarines. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in World War I, and is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Doyle’s work. Contents include: “Danger! Being the Log of Captain John Sirius”, “One Crowded Hour”, “A Point of View”, “The Fall of Lord Barrymore”, “The Horror of the Heights”, “Borrowed Scenes”, “The Surgeon of Gaster Fell”, “How It Happened”, etc. Many classic books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

I have written a collection of short stories of my boyhood and adolescence, growing up in Liverpool, England, in the 1950's and 1960's. Each story stands on its own, although the whole collection is more or less in chronological order. The stories have humour running through them and try to express what it was like being a boy in those times and in that particular setting. They are designed to appeal to all ages, but would have particular relevance to boys of any age!