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A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling. Table of Contents As Easy as A.B.C. MacDonough’s Song Friendly Brook The Land In the Same Boat ‘Helen all Alone’ The Honours of War The Children The Dog Hervey The Comforters The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat The Press In The Presence Jobson’s Amen Regulus A Translation The Edge of the...

A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde once said that this collection was "intended neither for the British child nor the British public." The stories included in this collection are as follows: The Young King The Birthday of...

The highly influential author Louisa May cott wrote the one of the most famous books, A Modern Cinderella Or, The Little Old Shoe And Other Stories. This literary work is considered to be one of the best works of not only the period, but of all time. The book would later go on to be translated into hundreds of languages, distributed worldwide, and come to be part of popular culture for decades,...

Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling Table of Contents: An Habitation Enforced The Recall Garm — A Hostage The Power of the Dog The Mother Hive The Bees and the Flies With the Night Mail The Four Angels A Deal in Cotton The New Knighthood The Puzzler The Puzzler Little Foxes Gallio’s Song The House Surgeon The Rabbi’s Song

After Dark is a collection of six short stories by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1856. It was the author's first collection of short stories. Five of the stories were previously published in Household Words, a magazine edited by Charles Dickens. The stories are linked by a narrative framework. At the beginning and end of the book are "Leaves from Leah's Diary": William Kerby, a travelling...

Indian Tales (1890) - A collection of tales inspired by Kipling's days living and working in India.

Life's Handicap, Being Stories of Mine Own People was published in 1891. Most of the stories had previously appeared in periodicals. Table of Contents: Preface The Lang Men o' Larut Reingelder and the German Flag The Wandering Jew Through the Fire The Finances of the Gods The Amir's Homily Jews in Shushan The Limitations of Pambe Serang Little Tobrah Bubbling Well Road "The City of...

Lulu's Library, Volume III includes: Recollections of My Childhood A Christmas Turkey, and How It Came The Silver Party The Blind Lark Music and Macaroni The Little Red Purse Sophie's Secret Dolly's Bedstead Trudel's Siege

Mosses from an Old Manse is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846. The collection includes several previously-published short stories and was named in honor of The Old Manse where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage. The first edition was published in 1846.

On Picket Duty, And Other Tales includes: On picket duty The king of clubs and the queen of hearts The cross on the old church tower The death of John

Orientations by William Somerset Maugham, author of Liza of Lambeth, The Making of a Saint. Table of Content: The Punctiliousness of Don Sebastian A bad example De Amicitia Faith The choice of amyntas Daisy

Plain Tales from the Hills (published 1888) is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, "eight-and-twenty", according to Kipling's Preface, were initially published in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, Punjab, British India, between November 1886 and June 1887. "The remaining tales are, more or less, new." (Kipling had worked as a journalist for the...

Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. It can count both as historical fantasy – since some of the stories told of the past have clear magical elements, and as contemporary fantasy – since it depicts a magical being active and practising his magic in the England of...

This book contains 9 short stories by F.Dostoevsky: An Honest Thief                   A Novel in Nine Letters                     An Unpleasant Predicament               Another Man's Wife    The Heavenly Christmas Tree        ...

Soldiers Three is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. The three soldiers of the title are Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris, who had also appeared previously in the collection Plain Tales from the Hills. The current version, dating from 1899 and more fully titled Soldiers Three and other stories, consists of three sections which each had previously received separate publication in...

Spinning-Wheel Stories includes: Grandma's Story  Tabby's Table-cloth Eli's Education Onawandah Little Things  The Banner of Beaumanoir  Jerseys; or, the Girl's Ghost  The Little House in the Garden  Daisy's Jewel-box, and How She filled it  Corny's Catamount  The Cooking-Class  The Hare and the Tortoise 

The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906) is a collection of thirty comic short stories by the iconic American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The stories contained span the course of his career, from Advice to Young Girls in 1865 to the titular tale in 1904. Although Twain had ample time to refine his short stories between their original publication date and this collection, there is little...

The Bridge-Builders (1893) by the British writer Rudyard Kipling is an Indian story about the building of the "Kashi Bridge." The story mainly displays Kipling's mastery of the technical details and knowledge related to bridge building. His biographers agree that the author acquired this knowledge through interacting with British civil engineers who were assigned by the Crown to build numerous...

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in December 1899, and was subsequently published by Harper & Brothers in the collection The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Sketches (1900). Twain actually encouraged it to be read as a replay of the Garden of Eden story in a satiric sense. Hadleyburg enjoys...

I arrived in Dublin on the evening of the fifth of August, and drove to the residence of my uncle, the Cardinal Archbishop. He is like most of my family, deficient in feeling, and consequently averse to me personally. He lives in a dingy house, with a side-long view of the portico of his cathedral from the front windows, and of a monster national school from the back. My uncle maintains no...