Best of
British-Literature
1917
Tales of Land and Sea
Joseph Conrad - 1917
CONTENTSYouthHeart of DarknessThe Nigger of the NacissusIl CondeGaspar RuizThe BruteTyphoonThe Secret SharerFreya of the Seven IslesThe DuelThe End of the TetherThe Shadow-Line
His Last Bow: Volume 1
Arthur Conan Doyle - 1917
Wisteria Lodge - Mr John Scott Eccles wakes to find that his host and all the domestic staff have vanished and, downstairs, the police find grim evidence of voodoo rites. The Cardboard Box - The morning mail brings Miss Susan Gushing a gruesome surprise. Who would want to send a gentle spinster two severed human ears! The Red Circle - A local landlady has an eccentric lodger who is causing her grave concern especially after her husband was abducted, obviously mistaken for someone else. The Bruce Partington Plans - Holmes is asked by his brother, Mycroft, to uncover how top secret plans for the Bruce Partington submarine could have been stolen from the Woolwich Arsenal.
Extricating Young Gussie
P.G. Wodehouse - 1917
The story introduces Jeeves, Bertie, and Aunt Agatha, though Bertie's surname may be Mannering-Phipps rather than Wooster.Annotated with biography about the life and times of P.G. Wodehouse.
The Lady of the Basement Flat
Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey - 1917
I am Evelyn Wastneys, and I died, standing at the door of an old country home in Ireland, with my hands full of ridiculous little silver shoes and horseshoes, and a Paris hat on my head, and a trembling treble voice whispering in my ear: