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By: Henry Hasse (1913-1977) | |
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The Beginning | |
Walls of Acid |
By: Henry Inman (1837-1899) | |
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Tales Of The Trail; Short Stories Of Western Life
This 1898 collection of thirteen previously published articles exhibits the acute perception of one of the most popular writers of the late 19th-early 20th centuries. “These "Tales of the Trail" are based upon actual facts which came under the personal observation of the author… and will form another interesting series of stories of that era of great adventures, when the country west of the Missouri was unknown except to the trappers, hunters, and army officers.” Henry Inman was an American soldier, frontiersman, and author... | |
By: Henry James (1843-1916) | |
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The Real Thing
The Real Thing is, on one level, a somewhat ironic tale of an artist and two rather particular models. Yet it also raises questions about the relationship between the notion of reality in our humdrum world, and the means that an artist must use in trying to achieve, or reflect, that reality. Though the protagonist is an artist and illustrator of books, not a writer, it's not hard to imagine that James has himself, and other writers, in mind. | |
Some Short Stories [by Henry James] | |
Four Meetings |
By: Henry Josephs | |
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The Fourth Invasion |
By: Henry Lawson (1867-1922) | |
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While the Billy Boils | |
On the Track | |
Over the Sliprails | |
Dramatic Selections from Henry Lawson's Short Stories
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By: Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) | |
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Hunter Quatermain's Story |
By: Henry Slesar (1927-2002) | |
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My Father, the Cat | |
The Delegate from Venus | |
Reluctant Genius | |
Dream Town |
By: Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) | |
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The Mansion |
By: Henry van Dyke (1852-1933) | |
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Blue Flower
"Sometimes short stories are brought together like parcels in a basket. Sometimes they grow together like blossoms on a bush. Then, of course, they really belong to one another, because they have the same life in them. ...There is such a thought in this book. It is the idea of the search for inward happiness, which all men who are really alive are following, along what various paths, and with what different fortunes! Glimpses of this idea, traces of this search, I thought that I could see in certain tales that were in my mind,—tales of times old and new, of lands near and far away... |
By: Henry Wallace Phillips (1869-1930) | |
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Trolley Folly
This collection of eleven short stories is packed with Henry Wallace Phillips' offbeat humor. You will find a trolley car driver, bored with his route, who decides to drive around town instead. There are a couple of men unfamiliar with the basic properties of a canoe. And watch out for the curse of the chewing gum. Fun to read. Fun to record |
By: Herbert B. Livingston | |
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Daughters of Doom |
By: Herbert D. Kastle | |
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The First One |
By: Hermann Sudermann (1857-1928) | |
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The Indian Lily and Other Stories |
By: Heywood Broun (1888-1939) | |
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Seeing Things at Night
This Book is a collection of humorous short stories which describe the comedy in everyday things and situations. |
By: Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (1848-1895) | |
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Tales from Two Hemispheres | |
Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories | |
A Good-For-Nothing 1876 |
By: Horace Brown Fyfe (1918-1997) | |
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Irresistible Weapon | |
The Outbreak of Peace | |
A Transmutation of Muddles | |
Satellite System | |
Flamedown | |
The Talkative Tree | |
Exile |
By: Horace Smith (1836-1922) | |
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Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses |
By: Howard Pyle (1853-1911) | |
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Pepper and Salt
One must have a little pinch of seasoning in this dull, heavy life of ours; one should never look to have all the troubles, the labors, and the cares, with never a whit of innocent jollity and mirth. Yes, one must smile now and then, if for nothing else than to lift the corners of the lips in laughter that are only too often dragged down in sorrow. … Yet listen! One must not look to have nothing but pepper and salt in this life of ours—no, indeed! At that rate we would be worse off than we are now. I only mean that it is a good and pleasant thing to have something to lend the more solid part a little savor now and then! … Are you ready? Very well; then I will tell you a story. |
By: Im Bang | |
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Korean Folk Tales
"To any one who would like to look somewhat into the inner soul of the Oriental, and see the peculiar spiritual existences among which he lives, the following stories will serve as true interpreters, born as they are of the three great religions of the Far East, Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism." Manuscripts by two of Korea's most famous authors, dating from the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were uncovered in the early years of the twentieth century. Translation revealed stories that are not for the faint-hearted: gruesome, harsh, unlovely, depicting scenes of the day, as well as the hope for better things. - Summary by Lynne Thompson |
By: Irvin S. Cobb (1876-1944) | |
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From Place to Place | |
The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights | |
A Plea for Old Cap Collier |
By: Irving E. Cox | |
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The Guardians |
By: Irving W. Lande | |
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Slingshot |
By: Ivan S. Turgenev (1818-1883) | |
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A Nobleman's Nest | |
The Rendezvous 1907 |
By: J. A. Taylor | |
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Far from Home |
By: J. Anthony Ferlaine | |
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One Out of Ten |
By: J. B. Woodley | |
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With a Vengeance |
By: J. Francis McComas (1911-1978) | |
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Criminal Negligence |
By: Jack Douglas | |
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Dead World | |
Test Rocket! |
By: Jack Egan | |
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Cully |
By: Jack G. Huekels | |
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Advanced Chemistry |
By: Jack London (1876-1916) | |
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The Sea Wolf
A maritime classic acclaimed for its exciting adventure, The Sea Wolf offers a thrilling tale of life at sea, while exploring the many difficulties that may erupt on board a ship captained by a brutally hedonistic and controlling individual. Additionally, the psychological adventure novel covers several themes including mutiny, existentialism, individualism, brutality, and the intrinsic will to survive. The novel sets into motion when its protagonist, the soft and cultivated scholar Humphrey van Weyden, is witness to a precarious collision between his ferry and another ship... | |
The Faith of Men
A collection of short stories by author Jack London | |
The Jacket (or Star Rover)
This book by Jack London was published under the name of "The Jacket" in the UK and "The Star Rover" in the US. A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the jacket," a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to compress the whole body, inducing angina. Standing discovers how to withstand the torture by entering a kind of trance state, in which he walks among the stars and experiences portions of past lives... | |
Love of Life and Other Stories | |
When God Laughs, and Other Stories
This collection of Jack London's short stories touches on a variety of topics, from his love of boxing, to relationships between criminals, to the trials of life and travel on many frontiers, to an allegory about a king who desired a nose. London is considered a master of the short story, a form much more to his liking and personality than his novels. He was active and quick of mind and the short story suited him well. |