Grey Parrot and Other Stories - WW Jacobs

Stories that draw attention to the comic potential of everyday moments. In the title story, a sailor suspects his wife of being unfaithful in his a...

Reducere. African Grey Parrots are exceptional birds. They are intelligent, curious and emotional. They create great bonds with their owners and they general...

Follow Bram Stoker (the author of Dracula) as he takes student Malcolm Malcolmson through a terrifying ordeal inside a judge's house... Travel, if ...

Reducere. This volume contains the ghostly tales of the British writer W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943), best known for the immortal classic "The Monkey's Paw." But ...

The prolific author of romance and sagas offers a collection of short stories across a variety of time periods and settings.

DescriptionThis collection of stand-alone short stories is a treat for new readers and dedicated fans alike. In each of these 17 stories, an ordina...

We are thrilled to be republishing this collection of romantic short stories with a brand new addition.Publisher: Allison & BusbyAuthor(s): Anna (A...

Reducere. African Grey Parrots are known as the "Einstein's" of the parrot world because of their incredible talking and mimicking ability which gave it quit...

Reducere. The history and culture of the Abenaki people comes to life in these stories, which are imbued with as much historical authenticity as possible, in...

Reducere. Tinged with melancholy but rooted in resiliency, the exquisite stories of Bernard MacLaverty's Blank Pages display the perseverance of the human sp...

"Backgrounds and Contexts" brings together relevant correspondence and contemporary reviews from both British and American sources. Also included a...

The essential literary collection of H.P. Lovecraft's ten finest short stories, from the celebrated editor of the two-volume New Annotated H.P. Lov...

Just what are the mysterious ThinkRight up to? How does Skyboy get his name? Who is the greatest scientist in the world? Read the short story, grap...

Reducere. A special volume of tales of ghosts and horrors with an often nautical flavourRarely is a story so well-known and highly regarded that it eclipses ...

Reducere. The stories differ widely in mood and setting. One is a cheerful political satire; another has, most unusually for Forster, a historical setting; o...

Reducere. DescriptionThe definitive collection of W. W. Jacob's macabre tales, and one of only two editions of Jacobs' horror stories available in the Englis...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sarah Orne JewettIntroduction by: Mary Ellen ChaseIntroduction by: Marjorie PryseThis edition of The Country of the Pointed...

Reducere. Presents an unabridged selection of the story of a mummified monkey's paw that carries a spell granting three wishes to each of its owners and fulf...

Reducere. A superb collection of science fiction and fantasy stories, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories is a book that transcend...

Publisher: Prince ClassicsAuthor(s): Leo TolstoyNumber of pages: 358Collection: Prince ClassicsPublication date: 2019Dimensions: 146 x 222 x 30Cove...

Reducere. Bad Jews and Other Stories is a nuanced and comic vision of life, love, and spiritual adventurism among the determinedly secular class of contempor...

A whirling library of ghost story, funny story, love story, scary story, and more. Like Russian dolls, separate yet invisibly linked, they unfold f...

Reducere. "What I want you to do, " said Mr. George Wright, as he leaned towards the old sailor, "is to be an uncle to me." "Aye, aye, " said the mystified M...

Billy Budd & Other Stories - Herman Melville

Reducere. "It's time to declare John Hornor Jacobs as a major author: every sentence he writes feels drawn from a pit of fire and hammered into a sword." --Da...

A saga set in the Pennines in the middle of the eighteenth century, by the author of OUR LIZZIE.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Anna Jacobs...

Some of the Sneetches have bellies with stars, but the plain-bellied ones have none upon thars! But an unexpected visitor soon leads them to discov...

Amid the oppressive heat, and in the aftermath of the exuberance of Seville's Expo '92, Marina spends a chaotic summer with her grandmother while h...

Reducere. Launched in 1923, the pulp magazine Weird Tales quickly became one of the most important outlets for horror and fantasy fiction and is often associ...

Reducere. Launched in 1923, the pulp magazine Weird Tales quickly became one of the most important outlets for horror and fantasy fiction and is often associ...

Reducere. Four-level graded readers series, perfect for reading practice and language skills development at upper-primary and lower-secondary levels. Dominoe...

This volume includes Daisy Miller, Pandora, The Patagonia, and Four Meetings

A queer countercultural icon opens up about all things artistic, radical and romantic. Winner of the PEN American Center essay prize.

The four selections in this volume span his entire writing career and are among his best-known stories. They include: The Notorious Jumping Frog of...

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Reducere. A collection of 7 Christmas short stories from the author of "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry". 7 stories as funny, joyous, poignant and memo...

Following in the footsteps of such chroniclers of American absurdity as Cormac McCarthy, Joy Williams, and Charles Portis, Robin McLean's Pity the ...