Editorial: Good Press
"The Magic Ring and Other Stories" is a collection of short, interesting stories. This book contains interesting stories including The Magic Ring, The White Duck, Lovely Ilonka, Clever Maria, and others, this book promises a thrill like no other. Just the perfect short book to read on a beautiful day.
“A weary pilgrimage amongst hints for nightmares.” This is how Marlowe describes his journey into the Belgian Congo. And while Europeans go mad, Corporations turn tyrannous, and the legend of a great Ivory hunter is dangled before him, Marlowe observes everything with a keen eye, as we journey with him, into the Heart of Darkness.Ver libro
White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876-1916) - and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story details White Fang's journey to domestication in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which is about a kidnapped, domesticated dog embracing his wild ancestry to survive and thrive in the wild.Ver libro
In this volume we discover that the obvious and the easy are not perhaps as obvious and easy as our authors first present them. They play with us. There is certainty. Then there is uncertainty. There is a fact and then seemingly not. One thing we can rely on though is that each new twist and turn takes us on a journey of frustration and exasperation that is as enjoyable as it is bewildering. And, in the company of the sparkling wits of Chesterton, Aumonier, Barrie and a host of others who summon indignation and vexation as they rile and befuddle us then being exasperated was never quite so much fun. 01 - Exasperated - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 02 - A Somewhat Improbable Story by G K Chesterton 03 - The Man Who Did Not Believe in Luck by Jerome K Jerome 04 - Putois by Anatole France 05 - The Lady, or the Tiger by Frank Stockton 06 - The Inconsiderate Waiter by J M Barrie 07 - The Absent Minded Man by Jerome K Jerome 08 - The Little Room by Madeline Yale Wynne 09 - The Mysterious Card by Cleveland Moffet 10 - Where Was Wych Street by Stacy AumonierVer libro
Complete and unabridged, and read with meticulous care, in this story Miles Standish and John Alden both seek the hand of the fair Priscilla. See the Mayflower abandon the first settlers as it returns to England. Feel the heated vision of the Indians, perpetually keeping their watch in the dark forest. Love and adventure collide in one of Longfellow's most famous works.Ver libro
The Singing Lesson, written by Katherine Mansfield, is all about a surprising day of a music teacher's life. Taken from Katherine's "The Garden Party and Other Stories" collection, it's a short story written in third person from an unknown narrator's perspective. - Miss Meadows, a music teacher, receives a letter from her fiancé which states quite plainly that Basil, her fiancé, isn't ready to marry her and feels that the marriage would fill him with disgust. The word "disgust" is scratched lightly and written above it is the word "regret". Naturally she's filled with despair, anger & sadness. And due to her bad mood she sees everyone and everything in a negative light. Her usual calm and cheery demeanor turns gloomy and angry that day and this change doesn't go unnoticed by her students.Ver libro
"one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language." - Stephen KingA tense and creepy horror story, The Great God Pan revolves around the mysterious "Mrs Vaughan" and the tide of death she leaves in her wake. Can she be stopped? What connection does she have to a certain illegal experiment performed some twenty years earlier? Or horrendous goings on at a sleepy welsh rural village? Inspired by his experiences at the ruins of a pagan temple in Wales. "The Great God Pan" received positive approval from Oscar Wilde, Lovecraft and others, and is considered a Horror Masterpiece.Narrated by Michael Ward.Ver libro
