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21 Great Stories
War, by L. Pirandello --
Eve in darkness, by K. Hurlbut --
There will come soft rains, by R. Bradbury --
Tobermory, by Saki --
The two bottles of relish, by Lord Dunsany --
Footfalls, by W.D. Steele --
Hook, by W.V.T. Clark --
Wine on the desert, by M. Brand --
The lady or the tiger, by F. Stockton --
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, by A. Bierce --
Cask of Amontillado, by E.A. Poe…
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Invisible Man
Invisible Man is the story of a young black man from the South who does not fully understand racism in the world. Filled with hope about his future, he goes to college, but gets expelled for showing one of the white benefactors the real and seamy side of black existence. He moves to Harlem and becomes an orator for the Communist party, known as the Brotherhood. In his position, he is both…
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The World of Mystery Fiction
Victims of my graft / Vidocq --
The prison mazas / William Russell --
Confession found in a prison / Charles Dickens --
Three detective anecdotes / Charles Dickens --
Murders in the rue morgue / Edgar Allan Poe --
Purloined Letter / Edgar Allan Poe / Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe --
A scandal in Bohemia / Arthur Conan Doyle --
The red-headed league / Arthur Conan Doyle --
The…
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Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition
Fiction. Talking with Amy Tan --
Reading a story --
The art of fiction --
Types of short fiction --
Death has an appointment in Samarra / Sufi Legend --
The north wind and the sun / Aesop --
The tortoise and the geese / Bidpai --
Independence / Chuang Tzu --
Godfather death / Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm --
Plot --
The short story --
A & P / John Updike --
Writing effectively --
Point of…
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Little Green
Little Green
Surviving a near-fatal car wreck and cruising the streets of the Sunset Strip during the heyday of the late 1960s, Easy Rawlins investigates the disappearance of a young African-American, a case that is complicated by Rawlins's changing perspectives.
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Catwoman
When the Bat's away, the Cat will play. It's time to see how many lives this cat really has.
Two years after escaping Gotham City's slums, Selina Kyle returns as the mysterious and wealthy Holly Vanderhees. She quickly discovers that with Batman off on a vital mission, the city looks ripe for the taking.
Meanwhile, Luke Fox wants to prove that as Batwing he has what it takes to help people.…
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In the Shadow of the Master
Few have crafted stories as haunting as those by Edgar Allan Poe. Collected here to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Poe's birth are sixteen of his best tales accompanied by twenty essays from beloved authors, including T. Jefferson Parker, Lawrence Block, Sara Paretsky, and Joseph Wambaugh, among others, on how Poe has changed their life and work.Michael Connelly recounts the inspiration he…
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The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition
Part One: Stories --
Chinua Achebe / Civil Peace --
Sherman Alexie / The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven --
Isabelle Allende / An Act of Vengeance --
Sherwood Anderson / Hands --
Margaret Atwood / Happy Endings --
Isaac Babel / My First Goose --
James Baldwin / Sonny's Blues --Toni Cade Bambara / The Lesson --
Russell Banks / Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat…
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Psychomania
John Llewellyn Probert: Prologue: Screams in the Dark
Joe R. Lansdale: I Tell You It's Love
Reggie Oliver: The Green Hour
Steve Rasnic Tem: The Secret Laws of the Universe
Basil Copper: The Recompensing of Albano Pizar
David A. Sutton: Night Soil Man
Brian Hodge: Let My Smile Be Your Umbrella
Scott Edelman: The Trembling Living Wire
John Llewellyn Probert: Case Conference #1
Robert…
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Double Barrel Bluff
Double Barrel Bluff
Multi-award winning and USA Today bestselling crime writer Lou Berney returns to his critically acclaimed thriller series starring former mob wheelman Shake Bouchon, who finds himself dragged into a high-stakes hostage rescue, among the mighty temples and shadowy underground of Cambodia.During his years as a wheelman for the Armenian mob in Los Angeles, Shake Bouchon didn’t think of himself…
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Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture
Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture
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Abyssinian Chronicles
"The teller of this tale is Mugezi, a quick-witted, sharp-eyed man whose life encompasses the traditional and the modern, the peaceful and the insanely violent, the despotic and the democratic. Born in a rural community in the early l960s, he is raised by his grandfather, a deposed clan chief, and his great-aunt, or "grandmother," after his parents immigrate to the capital city of Kampala.
At…
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Sinister street
Michael Fane arrives in the thin red house in Carlington Road to his new family of Nurse, Cook, Annie the housemaid, his younger sister Stella, and the occasional presence of Mother. From here, the novel follows the next twenty years of his life as he tries to find his place in the upper echelons of Edwardian society, through prep school, studies at Oxford, and his emergence into the wide world.…
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac
A Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne. The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. A sort of tennis-court arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance. The hall is oblong and seen obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background makes an angle with the stage, which is partly visible. On both sides of the stage are benches.…
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Gadis Pantai
"In a poor coastal fishing village, a beautiful girl unknowingly attracts the attention of a local aristocrat. Before she knows it, she is forced to marry this man she has never seen and leave behind all that is familiar to her - her carefree days spent helping her mother with daily tasks, dreamily listening to the sounds of the wind and the waves, and watching boats come and go. She is taken…
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Der Nachsommer
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The Tell-Tale Heart
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in James Russell Lowell's The Pioneer in January 1843. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is often considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and is one of Poe's best known short stories. It is related by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator's sanity while simultaneously…
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Soul on ice
A collection of essays and open letters written while a prisoner at California's Folsom State prison.
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