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  The Garden Party and Other Stories

  Katherine Mansfield

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  Written during the final stages of her illness, "The Garden Party and Other Stories" is full of a sense of urgency and was Katherine Mansfield's last collection to be published during her lifetime. The fifteen stories featured, many of them set in her native New Zealand, vary in length and tone from the opening story, "At the Bay, " a vivid impressionistic evocation of family life, to the short, sharp sketch "Mrs. Brill, " in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed when she overhears two young lovers mocking her. Sensitive revelations of human behaviour, these stories reveal Mansfield's supreme talent as an innovator who freed the story from its conventions and gave it a new strength and prestige.

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  The complete novels of Charles...

  Charles Dickens

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  Experience the Heartbeat of Victorian London.
  
  No writer captured the soul of a city—and the conscience of an empire—quite like Charles Dickens. From the opulent drawing rooms of the elite to the foggy, desperate alleys of the working poor, Dickens's novels are a panoramic achievement of empathy and wit. This comprehensive collection brings together his entire novelistic output, offering a front-row seat to the birth of the modern world.
  
  This definitive collection explores the pillars of Dickens's genius:
  
  A Gallery of Immortals: Meet the most vivid cast in literary history—villains who chill the blood, orphans who break the heart, and eccentrics who provide endless laughter.
  
  The Voice of Social Reform: Explore powerful narratives that challenged the cruelties of the workhouse, the labyrinth of the legal system, and the crushing weight of the Industrial Revolution.
  
  Mastery of Serial Suspense: Experience the "cliffhanger" pacing that kept millions of Victorian readers waiting breathlessly for the next installment, blending mystery, drama, and romance.
  
  The Atmosphere of the Fog: Immerse yourself in the sensory detail of 19th-century England, where the setting is as much a character as the people who inhabit it.
  
  Dickens didn't just write books; he changed laws and opened hearts. His prose remains the gold standard for narrative realism and satirical humor. Whether you are seeking a sweeping family saga or a biting critique of institutional corruption, this volume is the essential cornerstone for every library of world literature.
  
  Walk the streets of history. Buy "The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens" today and rediscover the power of a great story.

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  Twelve Huntsmen The - Story Time...

  Brothers Grimm

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  The Twelve Huntsmen" starts right where many fairy tales end, with a prince and princess in love, planning their wedding. This happy event is cancelled by the sudden death of the king's father, who, on his deathbed, requests his son to marry another bride.

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  Picture in the House The...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  While riding his bicycle in the Miskatonic Valley of rural New England, a genealogist seeks shelter from an approaching storm. He enters an apparently abandoned house, only to find it occupied by a "loathsome old, white-bearded, and ragged man", speaking in "an extreme form of Yankee dialect... thought long extinct." The narrator notices that the house is full of antique books, exotic artifacts, and furniture predating the American Revolution. At first, the old man appears harmless and ignorant towards his guest. However, he shows a disquieting fascination for an engraving in a rare old book, Regnum Congo, and admits to the narrator how it made him hunger for "victuals I couldn't raise nor buy"- presumably human flesh. It's suggested that the old man was murdering travelers who stumbled upon the house to satisfy his "craving", and has extended his own life preternaturally through cannibalism.[4] Soon, a now frightened narrator realizes the old man has been alive for over a century. Still, the old man denies he ever acted upon such a desire. Suddenly, a drop of blood falls from the ceiling, clearly coming from the floor above, and splashes a page in the book. The narrator then looks up to see a spreading red stain on the ceiling; this belies the old man's statement. At that moment, a bolt of lightning destroys the house. Fortunately, the narrator survives to tell of his ordeal.

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  Les Misérables: Volume 3: Marius...

  Víctor Hugo

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  Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, and letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose.
  BOOK 8: THE WICKED POOR MAN: Summer passed, then the autumn; winter came. Neither M. Leblanc nor the young girl had again set foot in the Luxembourg garden. Thenceforth, Marius had but one thought,-to gaze once more on that sweet and adorable face.

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  I and My Chimney (Unabridged)

  Herman Melville

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  In those houses which are strictly double houses that is, where the hall is in the middle the fireplaces usually are on opposite sides; so that while one member of the household is warming himself at a fire built into a recess of the north wall, say another member, the former's own brother, perhaps, may be holding his feet to the blaze before a hearth in the south wall the two thus fairly sitting back to back. Is this well? Be it put to any man who has a proper fraternal feeling. Has it not a sort of sulky appearance? But very probably this style of chimney building originated with some architect afflicted with a quarrelsome family.

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