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By: Lord Dunsany (1878-1957)

Book cover Fifty-One Tales

Very brief, well-crafted stories, many having surprise endings, all steeped in the dye of myth and calling to every reader's neglected imagination.

By: Lord Dunsany (1878-1957)

Book cover Gods of Pegāna

"The Gods of Pegāna" is the first book by Anglo-Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, published on a commission basis in 1905... The book is a series of short stories linked by Dunsany's invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegāna. It was followed by a further collection "Time and the Gods" and by some stories in "The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories".

Book cover Dreamer's Tales

"A Dreamer's Tales" is the fifth book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of H. P. Lovecraft, J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock and others. "A Dreamer's Tales" is a collection of sixteen fantasy short stories, and varies from the wistfulness of "Blagdaross" to the horrors of "Poor Old Bill" and "Where the Tides Ebb and Flow" to the social satire of "The Day of the Poll." (text from Wikipedia articles on Lord Dunsany and "A Dreamer's Tales")

By: Lord Redesdale (1837-1916)

Tales of Old Japan by Lord Redesdale Tales of Old Japan

Tales of Old Japan by Lord Redesdale is a collection of short stories focusing on Japanese life of the Edo period (1603 - 1868). It contains a number of classic Japanese stories, fairy tales, and other folklore; as well as Japanese sermons and non-fiction pieces on special ceremonies in Japanese life, such as marriage and harakiri, as observed by Lord Redesdale. The best know story of these is "The Forty-seven Ronins" a true account of samurai revenge as it happened at the beginning of 18th century Japan...

By: Lorimer Stoddard (1864-1901)

Book cover The Indian's Hand 1892

By: Lou Tabakow (1915?-1981)

Book cover Faithfully Yours

By: Louis Becke (1855-1913)

Book cover Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899
Book cover A Memory Of The Southern Seas 1904
Book cover By Reef and Palm
Book cover The Colonial Mortuary Bard; "'Reo," The Fisherman; and The Black Bream Of Australia 1901
Book cover "Old Mary" 1901
Book cover "Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging In The Pacific 1901
Book cover In The Far North 1901
Book cover "Pig-Headed" Sailor Men From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902
Book cover Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898
Book cover Foster's Letter Of Marque A Tale Of Old Sydney - 1901
Book cover Susâni 1901
Book cover Sarréo 1901
Book cover "Martin Of Nitendi"; and The River Of Dreams 1901
Book cover The Brothers-In-Law: A Tale Of The Equatorial Islands; and The Brass Gun Of The Buccaneers 1901
Book cover Officer And Man 1901
Book cover Pâkia 1901
Book cover John Corwell, Sailor And Miner; and, Poisonous Fish 1901
Book cover Âmona; The Child; And The Beast; And Others From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902

By: Louis Ginzberg (1873-1953)

Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg Legends of the Jews

Rabbi Louis Ginzberg was one of the outstanding Talmudists of the twentieth century. He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kovno, Lithuania; he died on November 11, 1953, in New York City. Ginzberg taught at the Jewish Theological seminary from 1903 to 1953. For 50 years, he trained two generations of Conservative Rabbis.The Legends of the Jews is an epic 7-volume compilation of traditional Jewish stories loosely related to the Bible. Volumes 1-4 contain the stories, while volumes 5-7 contain Ginzberg’s notes and commentary...

By: Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

A Garland For Girls by Louisa May Alcott A Garland For Girls

“These stories were written for my own amusement during a period of enforced seclusion. The flowers which were my solace and pleasure suggested titles for the tales and gave an interest to the work. If my girls find a little beauty or sunshine in these common blossoms, their old friend will not have made her Garland in vain.” – L.M. Alcott, September, 1887

Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott Flower Fables

Flower Fables is Louisa May Alcott’s first book, penned at 16 for Ralph Waldo Emerson’s daughter, Ellen.

Book cover A Modern Cinderella Or, the Little Old Shoe and Other Stories
Book cover Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories
Book cover Spinning-Wheel Stories

A group of stories-within-a-story, told in the classic Louisa May Alcott style. "I've a little cold," said the old lady, "and am too hoarse for talking, my dears; but Aunt Elinor has looked up a parcel of old tales that I've told her at different times and which she has written down. You will like to hear her reading better than my dull way of telling them, and I can help Minnie and Lotty with their work, for I see they are bent on learning to spin." The young folk were well pleased with grandma's proposal; for Aunt Nell was a favorite with all, being lively and kind and fond of children, and the only maiden aunt in the family...

Book cover On Picket Duty, and Other Tales

By: Lucius Daniel

Book cover Martians Never Die

By: Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 by Lucy Maud Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901

Stories from 1896 to 1901. Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and Canada on the world literary map. Best known for her "Anne of Green Gables" books, she was also a prolific writer of short stories and poetry. She published some 500 short stories and poems and twenty novels before her death in 1942.

Further Chronicles of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery Further Chronicles of Avonlea

Further Chronicles of Avonlea is a collection of short stories by L.M. Montgomery and is a sequel to Chronicles of Avonlea. Published in 1920, it includes a number of stories relating to the inhabitants of the fictional Canadian village of Avonlea and its region, located on Prince Edward Island. The book was published without the permission of L.M. Montgomery, and was formed from stories she had decided not to publish in the earlier Chronicles of Avonlea. Montgomery sued her publishers, L.C. Page & Co, and won $18,000 in damages after a legal battle lasting nearly nine years.

By: Lyn Venable

Book cover Homesick
Book cover Grove of the Unborn

By: M. (Arnaud) Berquin (1747-1791)

Book cover The Looking-Glass for the Mind or Intellectual Mirror

By: M. A. (Monette A.) Cummings (1914-)

Book cover No Pets Allowed

By: M. C. Pease

Book cover This One Problem

By: M. I. Mayfield

Book cover On Handling the Data

By: Mack Reynolds (1917-1983)

Book cover Happy Ending
Book cover I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Book cover Gun for Hire
Book cover Dogfight—1973
Book cover Unborn Tomorrow
Book cover Subversive
Book cover Off Course
Book cover Summit

By: Maksim Gorky (1868-1936)

Book cover Creatures That Once Were Men

By: Manly Wade Wellman (1903-1986)

The Golgotha Dancers by Manly Wade Wellman The Golgotha Dancers

By: Mann Rubin

Book cover The Second Voice

By: Mara L. Pratt

Book cover Legends of Norseland

Collection of tales from the Norse legends, from the beginning of the golden kingdom of the Aesir, to it's end within the flames of Ragnarok.

By: Margaret Gatty (1809-1873)

Book cover Aunt Judy's Tales

This is a collection of six short stories by Margaret Gatty, writing as Mrs. Alfred Gatty. All told by 'an elder girl' in a large family to the 8 little ones gathered around. "There is not a more charming sight in the domestic world, than that of an elder girl in a large family, amusing what are called the little ones. "How could mamma have ventured upon that cosy nap in the arm-chair by the fire, if she had been harassed by wondering what the children were about? Whereas, as it was, she had overheard No...

By: Margaret Nevinson (1858-1932)

Book cover Workhouse Characters

In 1904, Margaret Nevinson, a respectable lady and active suffragette, joined the board of guardians in Hampstead Heath. The guardians had responsibility over the parish workhouse. In the UK, before the 1930s, one could not receive welfare assistance unless he or she entered the workhouse. A house for which one had to work. The conditions were so poor, sometimes even poorer then conditions in prison. The workhouse inspired many novels, the most famous is Oliver Twist. This collection of short stories is about the horrors Margaret saw, chiefly about things women had to endure...

By: Margaret Sidney (1844-1924)

Book cover Twilight Stories

By: Margery Verner Reed

Book cover Futurist Stories

By: Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849)

Book cover Murad the Unlucky and Other Tales

By: Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-1999)

Book cover Year of the Big Thaw

By: Mark Clifton (1906-1963)

The Kenzie Report by Mark Clifton The Kenzie Report

By: Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Extracts from Adam's Diary by Mark Twain Extracts from Adam's Diary

Get the true story of Adam and Eve, straight from the source. This humorous text is a day-to-day account of Adam’s life from happiness in the “GARDEN-OF-EDEN” to their fall from grace and the events thereafter. Learn how Eve caught the infant Cain, and Adam takes some time to learn exactly what it is.


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