French author of the naturalistic school, Maupassant is generally considered to be the greatest French short story writer of his day. The Complete Short Stories contains the 300 short stories Maupassant wrote during the 1880s, including his horror fiction, which consists of some 39 stories, only a tenth of his total. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1417936150.Volume I---------------------------Ball-of-Fat (Boule de Suif)The Diamond NecklaceA Piece of StringThe Story of a Farm-GirlIn the MoonlightMme. Tellier's ExcursionLoveMme. FifiMonsieur ParentUseless BeautyAn Affair of StateBabetteA Cock CrowedLilie LalaA VagabondThe MountebanksUglyThe DebtA Normandy JokeThe FatherThe ArtistFalse AlarmThat Pig of a MorinVolume II---------------------------Miss HarrietThe HoleThe InnA FamilyBellflowerIn the WoodThe Marquis de FumerolSavedThe SignalThe DevilThe Venus of BranizaThe RabbitLa MorillonneEpiphanySimon's PapaWaiter, a Bock!The Sequel to a DivorceThe ClownThe Mad WomanMademoiselleVolume III---------------------------A Bad ErrorThe PortChaliJeroboamVirtue in the BalletThe Double PinsHow He Got the Legion of HonorA CrisisGraveyard SirensGrowing OldA French Enoch ArdenJulie RomainAn Unreasonable WomanRosalie PrudentHippolyte's ClaimBenoistFecundityA Way to WealthAm I Insane?Forbidden FruitThe Charm DispelledMadame ParisseMaking a ConvertVolume IV---------------------------A Little WalkA Wife's ConfessionA Dead Woman's SecretLove's AwakeningBed No. 29MarrocaA PhilosopherA MistakeFlorentineConsiderationWoman's WilesMoonlightDoubtful HappinessHumiliationThe Wedding NightThe Noncommissioned OfficerIn the Court RoomA Peculiar CaseA Practical JokeA Strange FancyAfter DeathOn CatsRoom No. ElevenOne Phase of LoveGood ReasonsA Fair ExchangeThe Tobacco ShopA Poor GirlThe SubstituteA Passion

    The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast which roams the mist-enshrouded wilds of Dartmoor. Now The Hound seems to be stalking the young Sir Henry, new heir to the Baskerville estate. Is this devilish spectre the manifestation of the family curse? Or is Sir Henry the victim of a vile and scheming murderer? Only Sherlock Holmes can solve the mystery. In The Valley of Fear a cipher message and a horrible murder begin this dark, powerful tale in which Sherlock Holmes faces his old arch enemy, Professor Moriarty once more. The solution to the riddle lies far away from the disturbed calm of a country house in Sussex, halfway across the world in a location known as The Valley of Fear.

    Recognizing his life for what it was, he ran away from his home, but hecould not run away from all of his problems.Sixteen years later he found himself hungry of body and empty of spirit in asmall Midwestern town. He was determined to make something of himself and tonot be controlled by alcohol.Initially, he finds no help in this so-called Christian town. Eventually, heis taken in by George Udell, a local publisher and a kind-hearted man. GeorgeUdell gives the young man a job, and something more important: spiritualsupport. Through hard work and Christian morals, the man who becomes known as"that printer of Udell's" rises above his past to a new life withGod, inspiring those around him along the way.As in Wright's The Shepherd of the Hills and The Callingof Dan Matthews, both also published by Pelican, good deeds and astrong belief in God form the basis for a happy life, no matter what the past.

    The Butterfly That Stamped, and How the Alphabet Was Made..

    This monumental eBook features beautiful illustrations, informative introductions.CONTENTS:The Early NovelsCLAUDE’S CONFESSIONTHE DEAD WOMAN’S WISHTHE MYSTERY OF MARSEILLETHERESE RAQUINMADELEINE FERATThe Rougon-Macquart CycleTHE FORTUNE OF THE ROUGONSTHE KILLTHE FAT AND THE THINTHE CONQUEST OF PLASSANSABBE MOURET’S TRANSGRESSIONHIS EXCELLENCY EUGENE ROUGONTHE DRAM SHOPA LOVE EPISODENANAPIPING HOTTHE LADIES’ PARADISETHE JOY OF LIFEGERMINALHIS MASTERPIECETHE EARTHTHE DREAMTHE HUMAN BEASTMONEYTHE DOWNFALLDOCTOR PASCALThe Three CitiesLOURDESROMEPARISThe Four GospelsFRUITFULNESSLABOURTRUTHThe Short StoriesSTORIES FOR NINONNEW STORIES FOR NINONPARISIAN SKETCHESTHE ATTACK ON THE MILLTHE FLOODCAPTAIN BURLETHE MILLER’S DAUGHTERTHE DEATH OF OLIVIER BECAILLENAÏS MICOULINJ’Accuse !I ACCUSE...!The CriticismÉMILE ZOLA by Henry JamesTHE ZOLA CONTROVERSY by G. K. ChestertonM. ZOLA by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-CouchAn Extract from ‘MY LITERARY PASSIONS’ by William Dean HowellsÉMILE ZOLA by William Dean HowellsZOLA by Henryk SienkiewiczBORLASE AND SON by James JoyceThe BiographyWITH ZOLA IN ENGLAND by Ernest Alfred VizetellyResourcesTHE ROUGON-MACQUART FAMILY TREEINDEX OF CHARACTERS IN THE ROUGON-MACQUART SERIESINDEX OF LOCATIONS IN THE ROUGON-MACQUART SERIES

    Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest dedicated to fight against tyranny.

    The modern day Christianity we so loosely profess and so lightly possess blushes in the presence of the martyrs and maidens found in The Bible Makes Us Baptists. The Ana-Baptists depicted in this story reveal the greatness of their faith and the confidence in the Word of God we can all aspire to and desire. May God encourage your heart, enlighten your eyes and embolden your witness while reading this book.

    Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902. Excerpt: ... Eureka AN ESSAY ON THE MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL UNIVERSE To the few who love me and whom I love, to those who feel rather than to those who think, to the dreamers and those who put faith in dreams as in the only realities, I offer this book of truths, not in its character of truth-teller, but for the beauty that abounds in its truth, constituting it true. To these I present the composition as an art-product alone--let us say as a romance; or, if I be not urging too lofty a claim, as a poem. What I here propound is true: --therefore it cannot die; or, if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will "rise again to the Life Everlasting." Nevertheless it is as a poem only that I wish this work to be judged after I am dead. T is with humility really unassumed, --it is with a sentiment even of awe, --that I pen the opening sentence of this work; for of all conceivable subjects I approach the reader with the most solemn, the most comprehensive, the most difficult, the most august. What terms shall I find sufficiently simple in their sublimity, sufficiently sublime in their simplicity, for the mere enunciation of my theme? I design to speak of the physical, metaphysical, and mathematical--of the material and spiritual universe--of its essence, its origin, its creation, its present condition, and its destiny. I shall be so rash, moreover, as to challenge the conclusions, and thus, in effect, to question the sagacity, of many of the greatest and most justly reverenced of men. In the beginning, let me as distinctly as possible announce, not the theorem which I hope to demonstrate--for, whatever the mathematicians may assert, there is, in this world at least, no such thing as demonstration--but the ruling idea which, throughout this volume, I shall be conti...

    Describing a world where animals find themselves after death, Beautiful Joe's Paradise chronicles the afterlife of many of the animals introduced in her earlier books. Long out of print and unavailable, this new edition commemorates the 100th anniversary of the original publication.

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    The atmospheric stories and sketches collected here—fin-de-siècle fairy tales from the Vienna of Klimt and Freud, a number of them never before translated into English—propel the reader into a shadowy world of uncanny fates and secret desires. An aristocrat from Paris in the plague years shares a single night of passion with an unknown woman; a cavalry sergeant meets his double on the battlefield; an orphaned man withdraws from the world with his four servants, each of whom has a mysterious power over his destiny.The most influential of all of Hofmannsthal's writings is the title story, a fictional letter to the English philosopher Francis Bacon in which Lord Chandos explains why he is no longer able to write. The "Letter" not only symbolized Hofmannsthal's own turn away from poetry, it captured the psychological crisis of faith and language which was to define the twentieth century.

    A blackly comic novel starring Count Wladimir Noronsoff, the last of an accursed branch of a Russian aristocratic family, this is arguably the most outrageous of Jean Lorrain's works, with a richness of perversity and a quasi-imperial craziness in which the Côte d'Azur is an arena where echoes of Byzantium resound.This is a novel of fascinating moral and artistic complexity which, with its horror and sadness, humor and tragedy, is the climax of the author's career.

    "Dorothy Dainty , a little girl, the only child of wealthy parents, is an exceedingly interesting character, and her earnest and interesting life is full of action and suitable adventure." -Pittsburgh Christian Advocate

    Two times her father forgets; the third time, he buys a scarlet flower from a mysterious old man as long as the daughter agrees to marry his son, Finist the Falcon. This sets in motion a tale of love, jealousy, and adventure as the two overcome many obstacles to their love.

    It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V THE INN OF TARK. IRRA It was no ordinary change-house; so much is certain. Nor yet were they common muirland folk that made assignation there, as well I saw so soon as I lifted the latch to enter. And right sorry was I that we had two such good beasts with us, as Jasper and I had perforce to leave tied up to the rings let into the wall of unwhitewashed masonry which surrounded the little steading of Tarkirra. i " Ye are welcome, kind sirs " So a voice, harsh as a frog's croak, greeted us as we set our noses within, and a strange-looking being moved out from the dusky glow of the foul fireplace into the clearer light that streamed from the glassless window. The speaker was a dwarf, with long arms that wambled from side to side as he hirpled about the house or sat crouching like a beast in the corner. His gnarled thighs and outjointed knees prevented quick movement, but he rocked himself to and fro as he went on concocting his messes over the red peat fire upon the unraked hearth. " Ow aye," this fearsome carl chuckled, without taking any further notice of us; " ye'll no ken me, but ony o' thae decent men by the fireside will tell ye wha I am. ' Grisly Tam o' Tarkirra, ' they caa'me in their daffin'. But when they wad hae puir auld Tam to fill the pint stoup, when they hae sma' siller to pay for it, it's nae less than Laird Tarkirra that they will set their tongues to, the vaigabonds " As the darkness of the evil-smelling little cot- house gradually melted down before our eyes, through the reek of a score of pipes and the downblow or a narrow chimney, we c...

    In it he captures a young man's exhilaration in the face of danger and the unknown.THE END OF THE TETHER is of a different mold. Captain Whalley, aging but still afloat, compromises his principles without understanding what can follow. But life, like the sea, is unsparing, and the captain's fate arrives in due course, served up with Conrad's own brand of uncompromising logic.

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    Behind the Line: A Story of College Life and Football tells the story of Neil Fletcher, one of the star players for the Hillton football team. The book features plenty of exciting action, including a kidnapping.

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    Regarded as one of the great novelists in English; he wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by the demands of duty and honour, brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors. This collection contains his best works (Nostromo, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, Victory, The Shadow-Line, The Arrow of Gold, The Secret Agent, The Nigger of the Narcissus & Under Western Eyes), in their original editions. Review, design and indexing by Century eBooks.