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  Kaa's Hunting - Children's Classics

  Rudyard Kipling

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  Mowgli is abducted by monkeys. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the black panther set out to rescue him with the aid of Chil the Kite and Kaa the python.

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  The Life to Come - And Other...

  E.M. Forster

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  From the literary icon, author of Howard’s End and A Passage to India, comes a posthumous collection of short works, many never before published.    Featuring fourteen short stories, The Life to Come spans six decades of E. M. Forster’s literary career, tracking every phase of his development. Never having sought publication for most of the stories—only two were published in his lifetime—Forster worried his career would suffer because of their overtly homosexual themes. Instead they were shown to an appreciative circle of friends and fellow writers, including Christopher Isherwood, Siegfried Sassoon, Lytton Strachey, and T. E. Lawrence.   With stories that are lively and amusing (“What Does It Matter?”; “The Obelisk”), and others that are more somber and thought-provoking (“Dr Woolacott”; “Arthur Snatchfold”), The Life to Come sheds a light on Forster’s powerful but suppressed explorations beyond the strictures of conventional society.   “Have we been as ready for Forster’s honesty as we thought we were? His greatness surely had root in his capacity to treat all human relationships seriously and truthfully. . . . Even the earliest and most ephemeral of them will be recognized as the frailer embodiments of the same passionate convictions that made for the moral iron of his novels.” —Eudora Welty, The New York Times Book Review

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  The Nebuly Coat

  J. Meade Falkner

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  A chilling tale of suspense with a puzzling mystery at the heart of the story.Architect Edward Westray is sent by his firm to restore Cullerne Minster. The young man believes that more work is needed to secure the bell tower, but his warnings go unheeded. A fellow lodger, the church organist Sharnall, is investigating the belief of the late Martin Joliffe, the landlady's brother, that he, Joliffe, was the rightful heir to the Blandamer title and estates.Sharnall dies in circumstances which he had predicted and confided to Westray, and the architect continues this search into the nobleman's history - much to his Lordship's displeasure. With little experience of life beyond his profession, the young man discovers the truth and finds himself on a knife-edge of self-doubt in which his senses of honour and tradition are at odds with one another.Life is no longer black or white, but grey as the crumbling stone of the minster, which, in a thrilling finale, threatens to come crashing down upon him.Public Domain (P)2011 Assembled Stories

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  Soundbites - Tiny Tales for...

  Various Authors

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  A sumptuous collection of over 60 short stories by some of the world's greatest writers.    'The Hoop' by Fedor Sologub    'The Last Leaf' by O. Henry    'The Man Who Hated Aspidistras' by W. F. Harvey    'The Conjurer' by Richard Middleton    'The End of a Show' by Barry Pain    'The Devil of the Marsh' by H. B. Marriott-Watson    'The First of April' by A. J. Alan    'The Everlasting Club' by Arthur Gray    'The Apple Tree' by Katherine Mansfield    'Story of the Vanishing Patient' by Elia W. Peattie    'The Clock' by W. F. Harvey    'The Book' by H. P. Lovecraft    'The Cactus' by O. Henry    'On the Brighton Road' by Richard Middleton    'Mrs. Brassington-Claypott's Children's Party' by F. Anstey    'Seashore Macabre' by Hugh Walpole    'Quality' by John Galsworthy    'On the Northern Ice' by Elia W. Peattie    'The Beast in the Cave' by H. P. Lovecraft    'The Artist’s Secret' by Olive Schreiner ...and over 40 other gigantic little stories.

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  Germans at Meat (Unabridged)

  Katherine Mansfield

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  Germans at Meat is a short story by Katherine Mansfield: Bread soup was placed upon the table. "Ah," said the Herr Rat, leaning upon the table as he peered into the tureen, "that is what I need. My 'magen' has not been in order for several days. Bread soup, and just the right consistency. I am a good cook myself"-he turned to me. "How interesting," I said, attempting to infuse just the right amount of enthusiasm into my voice.

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  A Christmas Carol

  Charles Dickens

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  Ebeneezer Scrooge runs a tight shop with a tight fist and a sharp tongue. On Christmas Eve, he is visited by the ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley. Marley relates that in order for Scrooge’s soul to be reclaimed, he must be haunted by three spirits. The first of the three appear, and Scrooge’s reclamation begins.

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