18 books like A Thief in the Night

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The Black Mask: Further Adventure of the Amateur Cracksman E. W. Hornung · 1975 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Moderate First published in 1901, The Black Mask is the second collection of stories detailing the exploits and intrigues of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in late Victorian London. Raffles was E. W. Hornung's most famous character. Shares: Raffles, Classic Literature, Short Stories

Mr. Justice Raffles E. W. Hornung · 1909 · 394p · ≈ 13h · Challenging First published in 1909, A Thief in the Night is the first novel detailing the exploits and intrigues of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in late Victorian England. The novel is a darker work than the three preceding short story collections (The Amateur Cracksman, The Black Mask and A Thief in the Night.) In it a more cynical Raffles finds a corrupt moneylender, Mister Brigstock, is entrapping the… Shares: Raffles, Classic Literature, Short Stories

The Amateur Cracksman E. W. Hornung · 1899 · ★ 3.6 · 234p · ≈ 7h · Challenging First published in 1899, The Amateur Cracksman was the first collection of stories detailing the exploits and intrigues of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in late Victorian England. Raffles was E. W. Hornung's most famous character. Popular in its day, the book led to three later works: The Black Mask and A Thief in the Night, both collections of short stories, and Mr. Justice Raffles, a complete… Shares: Raffles, English Short stories, Classic Literature, Short Stories

The Wind's Twelve Quarters Ursula K. Le Guin · 1975 · ★ 4.1 · 303p · ≈ 10h · Moderate This is a collection containing, among other stories, the short story that started the Earthsea series." Along with "The Rule of Names," the story establishes the world and characters of Earthsea. First published in 1964 in an issue of Fantastic, the story can be found in a handful of anthologies but can be hard to lay hands on. Shares: English Short stories, Short Stories

A Quiver Full of Arrows Jeffrey Archer · 1980 · ★ 3.9 · 275p · ≈ 9h · Moderate | alt = A Quiver Full of Arrows first edition cover image Shares: English Short stories, Short Stories

The Quest of the Sacred Slipper Sax Rohmer · 1914 · 190p · ≈ 6h · Challenging This is a Fiction Action and Adventure Story Book. It tells that I was not the only passenger aboard the S. S. Mandalay who perceived the disturbance and wondered what it might portend and from whence proceed. A goodly number of passengers were joining the ship at Port Said. I was lounging against the rail, pipe in mouth, lazily wondering, with a large vagueness. What a heterogeneous rabble it… Shares: Relics, Classic Literature

When God Laughs and Other Short Stories Jack London · 1911 · ★ 3.0 · 148p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Released in 1911, When God Laughs, and Other Stories is the eleventh collection of short stories by Jack London. In contrast with most of his other work that had been released at the time, When God Laughs is set in Polynesia. The book consists of twelve short stories that range from humorous to shocking. Shares: English Short stories, Short Stories

Under the deodars Rudyard Kipling · 1850 · 118p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Eight short stories of Rudyard Kipling: The Education of Otis Yeere At the Pit's Mouth A Wayside Comedy The Hill of Illusion A Second-rate Woman Only a Subaltern In the Matter of a Private The Enlightenments of Pagett. M. P. Shares: English Short stories, Classic Literature, Short Stories

A set of six Joseph Conrad · 1908 · ★ 3.8 · 252p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The six stories in this volume are the result of some three or four years of occasional work. The dates of their writing are far apart, their origins are various. None of them are connected directly with personal experiences. In all of them the facts are inherently true, by which I mean that they are not only possible but that they have actually happened. For instance, the last story in the… Shares: English Short stories, Classic Literature, Short Stories

Swords and Deviltry Fritz Leiber · 1970 · ★ 3.9 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate The first of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and Grey Mouser series. A collection of short stories. Shares: English Short stories, Short Stories

Seven Gothic tales Isak Dinesen · 1934 · ★ 3.9 · 420p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Originally published in 1934, Seven Gothic Tales, the first book by "one of the finest and most singular artists of our time" (The Atlantic), is a modern classic. Here are seven exquisite tales combining the keen psychological insight characteristic of the modern short story with the haunting mystery of the nineteenth-century Gothic tale, in the tradition of writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, and… Shares: English Short stories, Short Stories

Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway · 1927 · ★ 3.6 · 159p · ≈ 5h · Challenging A collection of short stories, including three or four regarded as among his best. The subjects are varied, with In Another Country about a member of the Ambulance Corps in Italy during WW1, The Killers a taut crime thriller about two hit-men and The Undefeated about a bullfighter in Spain. Shares: English Short stories, Short Stories

Told After Supper Jerome Klapka Jérôme · 1891 · 42p · ≈ 1h · Challenging This is a ghost story book. Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve, they start telling each other ghost stories. Nothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but to hear each other tell authentic anecdotes about spectres. It is a genial, festive season, and we love to muse upon graves, and dead bodies, and murders, and blood. There is a good deal of similarity… Shares: English Short stories, Short Stories

Within the tides Joseph Conrad · 1915 · ★ 3.6 · 172p · ≈ 5h · Challenging In the private editorial office of the principal newspaper in a great colonial city two men were talking. They were both young. The stouter of the two, fair, and with more of an urban look about him, was the editor and part-owner of the important newspaper. Shares: Classic Literature, Short Stories

Rewards and fairies Rudyard Kipling · 1910 · ★ 3.8 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies are classic children's books which speak powerfully to adult readers. Una and Dan, performing a scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream one Midsummer's Eve, accidentally summon Puck to a fairy ring near their Sussex home. Through Puck the children are witnesses to tales of English history, subtly called forth by Kipling's brilliant and fluid adventure… Shares: English Short stories, Classic Literature, Short Stories

Ancient Sorceries Algernon Blackwood · 1906 · ★ 3.7 · 227p · ≈ 7h · Challenging By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. Here Blackwood displays his best and most disturbing work-including "The Willows,"… Shares: English Short stories, Short Stories

Soldiers three, The story of the Gadsbys, In black and white Rudyard Kipling · 1895 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Shares: English Short stories, Short Stories Shares: English Short stories, Short Stories

His Last Bow [8 stories] Arthur Conan Doyle · 1917 · ★ 4.2 · 266p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The adventure of Wisteria lodge.--The adventure of the cardboard box.--The adventure of the red circle.--The adventure of the Bruce-Partington plans.--The adventure of the dying detective.--The disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax.--The adventure of the devil's foot.--His last bow. Shares: English Short stories, Classic Literature, Short Stories

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