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  The Murders in the Rue Morgue

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  The case perplexes the Paris police due to several impossible details:    • The Crime Scene: The daughter's body was choked and forcefully shoved upside down into a narrow chimney, while the mother's body was found in the backyard with her throat cut so deeply that her head fell off.    • Locked-Room Element: The murders took place in a fourth-floor room that was locked from the inside.    • The Witness Testimony: Numerous neighbors heard the killer speaking, but they completely disagreed on the language. A French witness thought the voice spoke Spanish, an English witness thought it was German, a Dutch witness thought it was French, and so on. No one could understand the actual words spoken.

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  The Forfeit

  Ridgwell Cullum

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  On the windswept cattle ranges of Montana, rancher Jeffrey Masters is a man of iron discipline — cool-headed, ambitious, and utterly unlike the reckless brother he hasn't seen in years. When a letter arrives bearing the name of his estranged twin, Ronald, old wounds tear open just as Jeff and his partner, Bud Tristram, stand on the brink of the biggest gamble of their ranching lives. 
   
  Into this fragile balance of trust and ambition rides Bud's daughter, Nan, whose arrival stirs feelings Jeff can no longer ignore. But the open range hides darker secrets than romance: the Lightfoot gang, a ruthless band of cattle rustlers, is terrorizing every honest rancher in the territory — and their crimes threaten to collide with the Masters brothers' divided fates in ways no one could foresee. 
   
  A sweeping tale of loyalty, sacrifice, and the price men pay for the ties that bind them, Ridgwell Cullum's The Forfeit is classic Western storytelling at its most gripping — where love, duty, and vengeance ride the same trail.

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  The Reverberator - Americans in...

  Henry James

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  An American girl in Paris tells a chatty compatriot everything about the aristocratic French family she is to marry into, and he prints all of it in a society paper back home. James settled in England and took British nationality at the last; this 1888 novella is his funniest treatment of the American press, and the horror of the French relations at being written about is done without one raised voice. Sixty plates of Paris life by painters including Mary Cassatt and Jean Béraud, from theatre boxes and boulevards to the Longchamp races, give the city the story moves through its own face.

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  The Lottery for English...

  Shirley Jackson

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  "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is a timeless American short story, presented here in simple English for beginner English learners. Follow the intriguing events of a small town’s mysterious annual tradition. This special edition helps new readers improve their language skills while enjoying a classic piece of American literature.

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  The String Quartet - From their...

  Virginia Woolf

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  Adeline Virginia Woolf was born on the 25th January 1882 in South Kensington in London. 
  Although lauded as a founder of modernist writing with such classics as ‘Orlando’, ‘Mrs Dalloway’ and ‘To the Lighthouse’ and, of course, many classic short stories, her background is filled with elements of tragedy that she somehow overcame to become such a revered writer.   Her mother died when she was 13, her half-sister Stella two years later and with it her first of several nervous breakdowns.  Appallingly it was later found that three of her half-brothers had sexually abused her so darkness must have seemed ever present.   
  She began writing professionally at age 20 but her father’s death two years later brought a complete mental collapse and she was briefly institutionalised.  Somehow she found within herself a literary career and with it great innovations in writing; she was a pioneer of “stream of consciousness”.    
  Her tight circle of friends were the founders of the Bloomsbury Group, a movement whose legacy still influences across the arts and society in many way to this day.   
  Whilst the dark periods continued to interrupt her emotional state her rate of work never ceased.  Until, on 28th March 1941, Woolf put on her overcoat, filled up its pockets with stones, and walked into the River Ouse, in Lewes, East Sussex and drowned herself.  Her body was not recovered until the 18th April.  She was 59. 
  She left behind a note which read in part “Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again.  I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times.  And I shan't recover this time.  I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate.  So I am doing what seems the best thing to do”.

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  The Remarkable Rocket

  Oscar Wilde

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  This story concerns a firework, who is one of many to be let off at the wedding of a prince and princess. The rocket is extremely pompous and self-important, and denigrates all the other fireworks, eventually bursting into tears to demonstrate his "sensitivity." As this makes him wet, he fails to ignite and, the next day, is thrown away into a ditch.

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