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  The Adventures of Miss Anne de...

  Summer Hanford

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  Please Note: This is a short story. 
  Miss Anne de Bourgh is the son her father always wanted, except for one rather large detail. Still, her being a girl doesn't stop her from hunting, shooting, riding, and fencing as well as her cousins, and when her older cousin Henry wrongs her, Anne ropes Darcy and Richard into a scheme to exact revenge. But Anne is about to learn that even her father, who has always encouraged her in all her pursuits, thinks she's gone too far this time, and his punishment will be dire indeed. 
  That's right, it's time for Anne to meet her greatest adversary . . . Mrs. Jenkinson. 
  The Adventures of Miss Anne de Bourgh of Rosings is a short story prequel to Mr. Darcy's Bookshop. Enjoy!

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  Diary Horror - The 'Found...

  Robert Bloch, Guy de Maupassant,...

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  Fifteen stories told through the recovered pages of diaries/journals. 
  Contents: 
  What Killed Granded? by Ian Gordon (HorrorBabble, 2020) 
  An investigation told through a series of audio logs. 
  The Diary of Alonzo Typer by H. P. Lovecraft (Weird Tales, 1938) 
  An occult researcher disappears without a trace. 
  The Horror in the Lighthouse by E. A. Poe and R. Bloch (Fantastic, 1953) 
  Bloch completes Poe's famous fragment. 
  The Diary of Philip Westerly by Paul Compton (WT, 1936) 
  Unsettling incidents involving a mirror. 
  Notebook Found in a Deserted House by Robert Bloch (WT, 1951) 
  A boy hides from 'them ones'. 
  The Hall Bedroom by M. E. W. Freeman (Short Story Classics, 1905) 
  A peculiar room in a boarding house. 
  The Diary of a Madman by Guy de Maupassant (Le Gaulois, 1885) 
  The thoughts of an undiscovered murderer. 
  The Polar Vortex by Malcolm Ferguson (WT, 1946) 
  A terrible experiment. 
  The Impossible Adventure by H. T. W. Bousfield (WT, 1940) 
  A curious set of notes. 
  The Bed of Shadows by Fred R. Farrow, Jr. (WT, 1929) 
  What lurked above the man in the bed? 
  The Way Home by P. F. Stern (WT, 1935) 
  A man suffering from amnesia. 
  The Floor Above by M. Humphreys (WT, 1923) 
  A man's troubling stay with an old friend. 
  The Horla by Guy de Maupassant (1887) 
  A man is haunted by an invisible presence. 
  The Hollow Moon by Everil Worrell (WT, 1939) 
  A vampire and strange icebergs. 
  The Green Meadow by H. P. Lovecraft (The Vagrant, 1927) 
  A notebook found in a meteorite.

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  The Great Gatsby

  F Scott itzgerald

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  The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with a socialite, and by parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922. Following a move to the French Riviera, he completed a rough draft in 1924. After submitting the draft to editor Maxwell Perkins, the editor persuaded Fitzgerald to revise the work over the following winter. Despite being happy with the content of the text after revision, Fitzgerald was ambivalent about the book's title and considered a variety of alternatives. The final title that he was documented to have desired was Under the Red, White, and Blue. Fitzgerald was, however, happy with painter Francis Cugat's final cover design.After its publication by Scribner's in April 1925, The Great Gatsby received mixed reviews from literary critics who believed that it did not hold up to Fitzgerald's previous writing and thus signaled the end of the author's literary achievements. As such, Gatsby sold poorly, and although Fitzgerald believed that negative criticisms of the novel did not interpret his work correctly, when the author died in 1940 he believed himself to be a failure and his work forgotten. However, during World War II the novel faced a critical and scholarly re-examination, and it soon became a core part of most American high school curricula and a focus of American popular culture. Numerous stage and film adaptations followed in the subsequent decades.Gatsby continues to attract popular and scholarly attention. The novel was most recently adapted to film in 2013 by director Baz Luhrmann, while modern scholars emphasize the novel's treatment of social class, inherited wealth compared to those who are self-made, race, environmentalism, and its cynical attitude towards the American dream. As with other works by Fitzgerald, criticisms include allegations of antisemitism. The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary masterwork and a contender for the title of the Great American Novel.

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  Man with the Twisted Lip The...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Neville St. Clair, a respectable businessman, has disappeared and his wife claims she saw him at the upper window of an opium den. Rushing upstairs to the room she found only a beggar who denied any knowledge of St. Clair - whose clothes are later found in the room, and his coat, laden with coins, in the River Thames outside the window. The beggar is arrested, but a few days later St. Clair's wife receives a letter from her husband. Holmes concludes, then proves, that the beggar is actually St. Clair in disguise; he confesse that he has been leading a double life as a beggar, making more money that way than in his nominal work.

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  Analects

  Confucius

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  The Analects (literally "Selected Sayings", also known as the Analects of Confucius, is an ancient Chinese book composed of a collection of sayings and ideas attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius and his contemporaries, traditionally believed to have been compiled and written by Confucius's followers. It is believed to have been written during the Warring States period (475–221 BC), and it achieved its final form during the mid-Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD). By the early Han dynasty the Analects was considered merely a "commentary" on the Five Classics, but the status of the Analects grew to be one of the central texts of Confucianism by the end of that dynasty.
  During the late Song dynasty (960–1279) the importance of the Analects as a philosophy work was raised above that of the older Five Classics, and it was recognized as one of the "Four Books". The Analects has been one of the most widely-read and studied books in China for the last 2,000 years, and continues to have a substantial influence on Chinese and East Asian thought and values today.

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  The Mysterious Affair at Styles

  Agatha Christie

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  Set in Essex in the English countryside, The Mysterious Affair at Styles is one of the great classic murder mysteries. The victim, Mrs. Emily Inglethorp, is the wealthy mistress of Styles Court. After an evening of entertaining family and guests, she is found poisoned in her locked bedroom. The long list of suspects includes her gold-digging new husband, her stepsons, her best female friend, and a visiting doctor. As luck would have it, a brilliant, if rather eccentric, detective is among the company at Styles.In this, her first published mystery, Agatha Christie introduces her beloved Belgian inspector Hercule Poirot, who methodically pieces together the intricate evidence of this bewildering crime. From his very first appearance, Poirot amuses audiences with his oddly fastidious habits-then astonishes them with the power of his razor-sharp mind. Christie keeps listeners guessing as to the murderer's identity until Poirot finally presents his ingenious solution to this landmark mystery.

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