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Preface
In Our Village, Volume 1
This book is a compilation of short stories originally published in several series in The Lady's Magazine. Volume 1 covers a period of about…
Literature and Form
University of Oxford Podcasts
Joanna Traill, Spinster
Timid Joanna Traill’s every move is dictated by her overbearing sisters. Then she meets Mr. Boas, a man who works to give “fallen” women a …
Benighted
Phillip and Margaret Waverton, along with a cheerful young acquaintance Roger Penderel, finds themselves driving through a terrible storm wi…
Six lectures on literature
C. H. Herford was Professor of English Literature at the Victoria University of Manchester in era when public lectures were published in pam…
X. Mrs. Windemere
In Encounters: Stories
Included in this first collection of stories by noted Irish-British author Elizabeth Bowen are tales of psychological unease, of pent-up emo…
Dr. Scholar Crutch, Allsfarnia
In The Rose-colored World, and Other Fantasies
Love stories make perfect short stories. This collection contains 16 different short stories on the different ways a love affair can play ou…
Alice and Alicia
In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 012
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …
Alphabet of Celebrities
In Soup of Alphabets, Volume 002
A second helping of Alphabet Books! This collection has a wide-ranging variety of short books, and not only for younger readers, but also fo…
The Fraser Scholarship
In Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905-1906
Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of Lucy Maud Montgomery's short stories, where the beauty of Prince Edward Island serves as a backd…
Master and Pupil
In The Pink Fairy Book
All people in the world tell nursery tales to their children, and the stories are apt to be like each other everywhere. A child who has read…
The Four-Fifteen Express
In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 026
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …
Sister Maddelena
In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 010
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …
The Nightingale
In At Dawn And Dusk
Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his pocke…
Chapters 4 and 5
In Animal Ghosts
This is a collection of ghost stories in which the antagonists are various animals. Divided up into chapters of ghost sightings by each grou…
The Blue Star
In Stories Weird and Wonderful
A collection of tales written by J.E. Muddock. All these stories are dark in atmosphere and subject matter.
Sir Philip Sidney
In Fifty Famous Stories Retold
Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin is a collection of short stories that give a snapshot into the life of a legendary hero or an e…
The Right Word
In Stories Worth Rereading
A collection of short stories about many people. Some being tested, some being rewarded, all worth rereading! Many of them are the type to b…
15 - Glámr
In The Book of Ghosts
Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. During his life, he publis…