When this longtime Modern Library favorite--filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense--was first published in 1944, one of its biggest fans was critic Edmund Wilson, who in The New Yorker applauded what he termed a sudden revival of the app
This book is a compilation of classic short stories by the world`s greatest writers. The stories have been carefully chosen th shocase the authors` versatility and skill as storytellers.The collection covers an extraordinary range of themes, styles and se
A massive collection of humorous stories from America's favorite writers:The Little Frenchman and His Water Lots (1839) George Pope MorrisThe Angel of the Odd (1844) Edgar Allan PoeThe Schoolmaster's Progress (1844) Caroline M.S. KirklandThe Watkinson Eve
SELECTED EXTRACT FROM THE TABLE OF CONTENTS- The Complete Sonnets and Major Poems By William Shakespeare- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling By Henry Fielding- A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy By Laurence Sterne- Pride and Prejudice By Ja
With this posthumously published anthology--a successor to his bestselling Italian Folktales--Italo Calvino, a contemporary surveyor of the otherwordly, pays homage to twenty-six of his nineteenth-century precursors. The resulting volume is both an educat
With their evocative settings amid mists and shadows, in ruinous houses, on lonely roads and wild moorlands, in abandoned churches and over-grown gardens, ghost stories have long exercised a universal fascination. Responding to people's overwhelming attra
This huge anthology offers a kaleidoscope of brilliant writing from the Magi of the imagination. Alberto Manguel has selected 72 fantastic tales from life on the edge of the twilight zone, with stories from Marguerite Yourcenar, Herman Hesse, Italo Calvin
'The ghost is the most enduring figure in supernatural fiction. He is absolutely indestructible... He changes with the styles in fiction but he never goes out of fashion. He is the really permanent citizen of the earth, for mortals, at best, are but trans
