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  The Mark of Zorro

  Johnston McCulley

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  To free his people, a masked rider goes to war against an empire in this swashbuckling adventure story  In the untamed wilds of California, evil reigns at the mission of Los Angeles. A sinister governor grinds his subjects beneath his boot, bleeding them dry for the sake of the Spanish crown. Only one man dares challenge him. By day, Don Diego Vega is a debonair playboy known for his devil-may-care attitude. But by night, he dons a black mask and a black cape, and fights in the name of justice. When he bests his enemies, he carves a Z in their cheek: the mark of Zorro.   The inspiration for countless films, comic books, and stories, The Mark of Zorro is one of the great action novels of all time.   This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.  

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  Liza of Lambeth

  W. Somerset Maugham

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  An extraordinarily popular author during his lifetime, W. Somerset Maugham created a literary legacy  that includes such classics as The Moon and Sixpence and The Razor' s Edge. Maugham' s first novel, Liza of Lambeth is the story of 18-year-old Liza Kemp, a London factory  worker near the beginning of the 20th century who falls deeply in love with a 40-year-old father of nine children. As the affair escalates, Liza pays little mind to the damage her reputation is suffering. But society becomes increasingly troubled by the relationship.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edgar...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this small corner of the United States there is to be found a part of America that is both recognizable and yet distinct and of itself.  Whilst others pushed Westward these authors found much amongst their experiences that detailed and charted the world around them.  These are their stories. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 - US Authors of New England - An Introduction 
  2 - The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
  3 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 
  4 - The Color Out of Space by H P Lovecraft 
  5 - Conversation on Conversation by Harriet Beecher Stowe 
  6 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  7 - The Tachypomp by Edward Page Mitchell 
  8 - A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett 
  9 - The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale 
  10 - A Responsibility by Henry Harland 
  11 - A New England Nun by Mary E Wilkins Freeman

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  The Stranger from the Sea

  Paul Binding

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  After a ferocious early-springtime storm, young Norwegian sailor Hans Lyngstrand is shipwrecked in the English Channel near the coastal Kent town of Dengate—he is one of few survivors. Soon after, aspiring journalist Martin Bridges takes a job as a reporter at the local newspaper. A loner by nature, he’s a curiosity to the nosy townspeople, the gregarious editor of the paper, and his melodramatic landlady, whose own private life is fraught by the unexplained absence of her son and suspicious disappearance of her husband. But when Hans moves into the Mercy Room of Martin’s boardinghouse to convalesce and Martin’s editor assigns him the task of interviewing the young sailor, it upends his otherwise uneventful world. Hans tells him of his travels at sea, how he survived the shipwreck?and of his encounter with a ferocious sailor vowing to seek revenge, who Hans believes may still be alive. So begins a complex friendship between the two young men that will cause Martin to re-examine his past and future ambitions and his relationships with everyone around him.

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  A Child's Revenge

  Paul Bourget

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  Paul Bourget's haunting and highly disturbing story of a childhood experience in the Franco-Prussian war. A young boy's home is occupied by Austrian officers, who feast on their best food, guzzle their champagne and smash their belongings, while threatening worse reprisals if they do not bring coffee, which is impossible to get during this period. When the boy's sick father tries to intervene, he is violently ill treated. The child decides to take his own revenge.

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  Our Daughters' Last Hope - A...

  Elaine Stock

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  Elaine Stock presents Book 2 in the Resilient Women of WWII series.

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