Single Author Collections
A Curious Dream and Other Sketches
Celebrated American humorist Mark Twain delivers a delightful collection of the witty stories for which he is so well known. From the stran…
Short Science Fiction Collection
Explore the imaginative world of Alan E. Nourse in this curated collection of ten short stories, showcasing his unique blend of science fict…
The Dwarf's Chamber
Short Stories by Fergus Hume, a prolific English novelist. - Summary by Wikipedia
Prufrock and Other Observations
Prufrock and Other Observations was published in 1917 in a print run of only 500 copies by Egoist Press in London. It features The Love Song…
Short Stories
In 1859 Charles Dickens launched a new weekly journal, All the Year Round, to replace Household Words. Elizabeth Gaskell remained a prolific…
The House of Cobwebs
George Gissing was a prolific English writer of novels and short stories. Among his best known novels is The Odd Women, which was influenced…
Youth and the Bright Medusa
Youth and the Bright Medusa is a collection of eight short stories by Willa Cather, first published in 1920. This anthology showcases Cather…
South American Jungle Tales
The stories in South American Jungle Tales center on the relationships between people and the different creatures Quiroga came into contact …
The Maker of Moons
An eclectic collection of 8 stories by one of the early masters of the weird tale, Robert W. Chambers. The stories include a range of topics…
Elsie And The Child
Thirteen short stories (1924) by a master story teller of the early twentieth century. His writings, fiction and nonfiction, were popular wi…
Poems from the Divan of Hafiz
Hafiz was a Persian poet. His collected works (Divan) are regarded as a pinnacle of Persian literature. While influenced by Islam, his mysti…
The Bet and Other Stories
Thirteen short stories by the master. Summary by david wales
The Strength of the Strong
Seven short stories, written around the middle of London's writing career. The stories take place in diverse settings and time periods, from…
Short Stories
Elizabeth Gaskell was a regular contributor to Dickens's 'Household Worlds' and 'All The Round' until he later years. From 1858 onwards, she…
Rainer Maria Rilke
A selection of poems by this renowned German poet. - Summary by Peter Tucker
The Man From Snowy River and Other Verses
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses (1895) is the first collection of poems by Australian poet Banjo Paterson. It was released in hard…
Poems of Passion
Poems of Passion by Ella Wheeler Wilcox is a heartfelt collection that explores the depths of love and desire through evocative verse. Writt…
The Thirteen Travelers
The year is 1919 and peace has sprung upon the world after the unspeakable carnage of World War I. The place is Hortons, a building of expen…
Once A Week
Once A Week is a collection of short stories and slightly longer vignettes which were written for Milne's solid British Audience, including …
Poems of Nature
The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of the…