Henry Carter Hull

Includes three Sherlock Holmes mystery adventures: "The Red-headed League," "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," and "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches."

From America's favorite storyteller: A rich selection of twenty-five tales by the author of "The Gift of the Magi." Writing under the pseudonym O. Henry, William Sydney Porter was an incredibly prolific and popular master of the short story in the early twentieth century. His stories are known for being witty, playful, full of plot twists, and marked by surprise endings. The author had a special fondness for New York City and a deep interest and appreciation...

This is a collection of ten Christmas Stories, some of which have been published before. I have added a little essay, written on the occasion of the first Christmas celebrated by the King of Italy in Rome. The first story has never before been published. It is but fair to say that I have not drawn on imagination for Laura's night duty, alone upon her island. This is simply the account of what a brave New-England woman did, under like circumstances,...

A collection of winter-themed short stories

The Boy (throws his dart). Ho! ho! I came pretty near hitting her that time! Gudfinna. Hitting whom? The Boy. Can't you see the little spider hanging down from the beam? I mean to shoot and break her thread. Oddny. You are always up to some tomfoolery. Gudfinna. Leave the poor creature in peace! It has done you no harm. The Boy (laughing). Do you think she'd break her legs if she should happen to fall down on the floor? Gudfinna. I won't have...

How can people in the spotlight control their self-representations when the whole world seems to be watching? The question is familiar, but not new. Julia Fawcett examines the stages, pages, and streets of eighteenth-century London as England's first modern celebrities performed their own strange and spectacular self-representations. They include the enormous wig that actor Colley Cibber donned in his comic role as Lord Foppington--and that later...

Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (born Margaret Oliphant Wilson; 4 April 1828 – 20 June 1897) was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works cover "domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatural". Margaret was born at Wallyford, near Musselburgh, East Lothian, as the only daughter and youngest surviving child of Margaret Oliphant (c. 1789 – 17 September 1854) and Francis...

William Wymark Jacobs was an English author of short fiction and drama. His best remembered story is "The Monkey's Paw". He was born in Wapping, London, on 8 September 1863, the son of William Gage Jacobs and his wife Sophia, née Wymark. His father ran the South Devon wharf at Lower East. Wikipedia

MANY KINGDOMS BY ELIZABETH JORDAN AUTHOR OF 'May Iverson—Her Book' 'Tales of the Cloister' 'Tales of Destiny' Etc. Etc. … 'The state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.' —SHAKESPEARE. MCMVIII CONTENTS CHAP. I. VARICK'S LADY O' DREAMS II. THE EXORCISM OF LILY BELL III. HER LAST DAY IV. THE SIMPLE LIFE OF GENEVIEVE MAUD V. HIS BOY VI. THE COMMUNITY'S SUNBEAM VII. IN MEMORY OF HANNAH'S LAUGH...

Collection of short stories by Herbert Beeman.