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By: Charles A. Gunnison (1861-1897) | |
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In Macao |
By: Charles A. Stearns | |
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The Marooner |
By: Charles B. Cory (1857-1921) | |
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Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales
This is a collection of weird tales inspired from the natural history expeditions of the author, an independently wealthy bird collector, Olympic golfer, writer of many books on birds of the world, and, as evidenced in these pages, a fine storyteller to boot. | |
By: Charles Dickens | |
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Three Ghost Stories
As a gifted writer with a strong interest in supernatural phenomena, Charles Dickens produced a string of ghost stories with enduring charm. Three of them are presented here, of which The Signal Man is one of the best known. Though quite different from his most celebrated realistic and humorous critical novels, these ghost stories, Gothic and grotesque as they are, are of good portrayal, and worth a read/listen. Summary by Vivian Chan | |
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1
The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works - fiction, essays, poetry, letters, magazine articles and speeches - and each volume will be a pot pourri of all genres and periods of his writing. This first volume is released on Dickens' 200th birthday, February 7th 2012. Further volumes will follow during the anniversary year.Volume 1 includes short stories including, amongst others, The Holly Tree, the first part of Holiday Romance and three pieces from Mugby Junction.Some... | |
The Wreck of the Golden Mary
A short story of a ship wreck in 1851 trying to round Cape Horn on its way to the California gold fields. Poignant and well written. ( | |
Mudfog and Other Sketches
The Mudfog Papers was written by Victorian era novelist Charles Dickens and published from 1837–38 in the monthly literary serial Bentley's Miscellany, which he then edited. They were first published as a book as 'The Mudfog Papers and Other Sketches. The Mudfog Papers relates the proceedings of the fictional 'The Mudfog Society for the Advancement of Everything', a Pickwickian parody of the British Association for the Advancement of Science founded in York in 1831, one of the numerous Victorian learned societies dedicated to the advancement of Science... | |
Holiday Romance | |
To Be Read at Dusk | |
Reprinted Pieces | |
Sketches of Young Couples | |
Sketches of Young Gentlemen |
By: Charles E. Fritch (1927-) | |
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I Like Martian Music | |
The Odyssey of Sam Meecham |
By: Charles Fenno Hoffman (1806-1884) | |
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The Man In The Reservoir |
By: Charles Franklin Carter | |
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Old Mission Stories of California |
By: Charles G. D. Roberts (1860-1943) | |
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Hoof and Claw
These 14 short stories about animals are superb examples of Roberts smooth storytelling style. Knows as the Father of Canadian Poetry, he loved to also write in prose about the wilderness and the personalities of the animals to be found there as well as the exciting things they are capable of. Bears, White Wolves, Lynxs, hawks and yes, cattle are just a few of the animals written about. |
By: Charles Hanson Towne (1877-1949) | |
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The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story |
By: Charles Heber Clark (1841-1915) | |
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Frictional Electricity From "The Saturday Evening Post." |
By: Charles K. (Charles Kellogg) Field (1873-) | |
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Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University |
By: Charles Knight (1791-1873) | |
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Mind Amongst the Spindles
Lowell Massachusetts was founded in the 1820s as a planned manufacturing center for textiles and is located along the rapids of the Merrimack River, 25 miles northwest of Boston. By the 1850s Lowell had the largest industrial complex in the United States. The textile industry wove cotton produced in the South. In 1860, there were more cotton spindles in Lowell than in all eleven states combined that would form the Confederacy. Mind Amongst the Spindles is a selection of works from the Lowell Offering, a monthly periodical collecting contributed works of poetry and fiction by the female workers of the textile mills... |
By: Charles Louis Fontenay (1917-2007) | |
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Service with a Smile | |
The Jupiter Weapon | |
Disqualified | |
The Gift Bearer | |
Atom Drive | |
Wind |
By: Charles Reade (1814-1884) | |
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Stories by English Authors: England |
By: Charles Saphro | |
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Zero Data |
By: Charles V. De Vet (1911-1997) | |
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There is a Reaper ... | |
Monkey On His Back | |
Vital Ingredient |
By: Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) | |
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The Conjure Woman
Published in 1899 by Houghton Mifflin, Chesnutt's first book, The Conjure Woman, was a collection of seven short stories, all set in "Patesville" (Fayetteville), North Carolina. While drawing from local color traditions and relying on dialect, Chesnutt's tales of conjuring, a form of magic rooted in African hoodoo, refused to romanticize slave life or the "Old South." Though necessarily informed by Joel Chandler Harris's popular Uncle Remus stories and Thomas Nelson Page's plantation fiction, The Conjure Woman consciously moved away from these models, instead offering an almost biting examination of pre- and post-Civil War race relations... | |
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line
Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim Crow laws on African Americans and white Americans of the South. Many of Chesnutt's characters are of mixed-race ancestry which sets them apart for a specific yet degrading kind of treatment from blacks and whites. These stories examine particularly how life in the South was informed through a legacy of slavery and Reconstruction—how members of the “old dominion” desperately struggled to breath life into the corpse of an antebellum caste system that no longer defined the path and direction in which this country was headed... |
By: Charlotte Niese (1854-1935) | |
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The Story Of The Little Mamsell |
By: Chas. A. Stopher | |
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Solar Stiff |
By: Clara Dillingham Pierson (1868-1952) | |
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Among the Pond People
Lovely book for children written by teacher and naturalist Clara Dillingham Pierson. This book in the "Among the People" series explores the animal inhabitants of a pond. The beautiful writing brings the pond creatures into being in the reader's imagination and allows them a glimpse of the mysterious lives being carried out above and below the water's surface. |
By: Clifford D. Simak (1904-1988) | |
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The Street That Wasn't There |
By: Cyrus Macmillan | |
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Canadian Wonder Tales
This is a collection of folk tales originating in Canada, some from aboriginal oral tradition and others due to early French, Scottish, Irish and British colonists. They are presented as “fables” though many are without obvious moral. |
By: D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) | |
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The Prussian Officer and Other Stories
The collection of short stories – of which The Prussian Officer is one – was Lawrence’s first such book. A German officer and his orderly are the focus of the piece and, while socially the superior of his orderly, the officer demonstrates his is the distinctly baser character. (Introduction by Cathy Barratt) | |
The Prussian Officer | |
Wintry Peacock |
By: Damon Francis Knight (1922-2002) | |
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Special Delivery |
By: Dandin (6th Century) | |
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Twenty Two Goblins
These 22 stories are told by the Goblin to the King Vikram. King Vikram faces many difficulties in bringing the vetala to the tantric. Each time Vikram tries to capture the vetala, it tells a story that ends with a riddle. If Vikram cannot answer the question correctly, the vampire consents to remain in captivity. If the king answers the question correctly, the vampire would escape and return to his tree. In some variations, the king is required to speak if he knows the answer, else his head will burst... |
By: Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) | |
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Tenth Clew and Other Continental Op Stories
Biographer Nathan Ward has called “The Tenth Clew” Dashiell Hammett’s “first real jewel of a story.” In it, Hammett’s nameless Continental Detective Agency operative survives being knocked unconscious and dumped in San Francisco Bay. This kind of action was what his Black Mask magazine editors and readers were asking for, and Hammett somewhat grudgingly obliged them with continuing stories of the Continental Op. |
By: Dave Dryfoos (1915-2003) | |
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Waste Not, Want | |
Tree, Spare that Woodman |
By: David Carpenter Knight | |
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The Love of Frank Nineteen |
By: David Cory (1872-1966) | |
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Jumble Book
This is a lovely collection of short stories and poems some well known others not so well known. Something to appeal to everyone. |
By: David Henry Keller (1880-1966) | |
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The Rat Racket |
By: David Mason | |
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Something Will Turn Up |
By: Demetrios Vikelas (1835-1908) | |
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Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian |
By: Desmond Winter Hall (1909-1992) | |
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A Scientist Rises |
By: Dick Purcell | |
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Mr. Chipfellow's Jackpot |
By: Don Berry | |
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Sound of Terror |
By: Don Peterson | |
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The White Feather Hex |
By: Don Thompson (1935-1994) | |
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High Dragon Bump |
By: Donald E. Westlake (1933-) | |
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They Also Serve |
By: Douglass Sherley (1857-1917) | |
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Love Instigated: The Story of a Carved Ivory Umbrella Handle |
By: E. Boyd Smith (1860-1943) | |
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Selected Works of E. Boyd Smith
A sampling of the children's books written and illustrated by E. Boyd Smith. The first story is Mr. Smith's version of the Story of Noah's Ark. He then tells us the story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. Next we join a hen as she hatches her chicks and their life on the farm. We then go on several adventures with Bob and Betty as they visit their Uncle's farm, go to the seashore and learn about ships, and then learn about railroads and trains. Our last story is a brief history of the United States up until the time just after World War I. |