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  The Bottle Imp

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson tells the story of Keawe, a Hawaiian man who buys a magical bottle containing an imp that grants its owner any wish. However, there's a catch: the bottle must be sold to another person for a lower price than what the current owner paid, otherwise, the owner's soul will be claimed by the devil upon their death. 
  Keawe experiences both the incredible joys and the terrifying anxieties that come with possessing such an object. He gains wealth and status, but lives under the constant shadow of needing to sell the bottle under a specific condition. The story explores themes of temptation, desire, the nature of happiness, and the value of one's soul.

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  Mr Sprouts His Opinions A Night...

  Richard Whiteing

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  The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Richard Whiteing.

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  The Spectre Bridegroom - From...

  William Hunt

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  The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is the English writer William Hunt.

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  A Garland of Earth - From their...

  Dorothy Edwards

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  Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards was born on 7th June 1831 in Islington, London.  She was educated at home by her mother and showed early promise as a writer, publishing her first poem at the age of 7 and her first story at 12.  Thereafter several popular periodicals published her poetry, stories and articles. 
  In addition she also illustrated some of her own writings and painted scenes from books she had read.  This talent was not supported by her parents, who saw an artist’s life as scandalous.  Undeterred Amelia took up composing and performing music until a bout of typhus caused throat damage.  Other interests soon followed until, early in the 1850s, Amelia focused exclusively on writing.  Her early novels were well received, and with ‘Barbara's History’ in 1864, a work revolving around bigamy, her reputation was established.  
  Amelia’s pen was also the purveyor of ghost stories for magazines and are still anthologized as classic tales to this day. 
  In January 1851, Amelia became engaged, apparently to please her parents, but she quickly broke it off.  In reality her emotional attachments were almost exclusively with women.  From the early 1860s she lived with Ellen Drew Braysher, a widow 27 years her senior, until both women died in early 1892.  During this relationship other women also entered and left her life.  Her frequent travelling companion, Lucy Renshaw, accompanied her to Egypt in the winter of 1873 and there she found a life-changing interest in Egyptology.  Aware of increasing threats from tourism and modern development she became an advocate for their research and preservation.  
  To advance the work Amelia largely abandoned much of her writing in favour of Egyptology and even took on strenuous lecture tours to raise funds. 
  After catching influenza, Amelia Edwards, ‘the Godmother of Egyptology’ died on 15th April 1892 at Weston-super-Mare.  She was 60.

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  25+ The World's Greatest Short...

  Washington Irving, Edgar Allan...

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  Contents:
   • Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle
  • Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders In The Rue Morgue
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes From The Underground
  • Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis
  • Charles Dickens: The Chimes
  • Ivan Turgenev: Mumu
  • Francis Scott Fitzgerald: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
  • Joseph Conrad: Heart Of Darkness
  • Ambrose Bierce: Chickamauga
  • Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study In Scarlet
  • H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne: Roger Malvin's Burial
  • Guy de Maupassant: Necklace
  • Leo Tolstoy: God Sees The Truth, But Waits
  • Anton Chekhov: The Lottery Ticket
  • Virginia Woolf: The Mark On The Wall
  • Katherine Mansfield: The Garden Party
  • H.G. Wells: The Star
  • Stendhal: Vanina Vanini
  • Honoré De Balzac: The Unknown Masterpiece
  • Mark Twain: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
  • Aldous Huxley: Crome Yellow
  • Ernest Hemingway: Up In Michigan
  • Nikolay Gogol: A May Night
  • O. Henry: The Ransom Of Red Chief
  • Jack London: To Build a Fire

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  Her First Ball

  Katherine Mansfield

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  "Her First Ball" is a 1921 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in The Sphere on 28 November 1921, and later reprinted in The Garden Party and Other Stories.
  A young girl called Leila has come to the city to stay with her cousins. They are going to a ball. Leila is very excited: this is her first ball. Once there, she is both excited and terrified. After dancing with several young boys her own age, she dances with a wrinkly balding man who has been coming to balls for a while. This spoils her mood until she dances with a good looking young gentleman where her worries disappear.

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