Some of the most notable are:Tales:"The Fall of the House of Usher""The Masque of the Red Death""The Pit and the Pendulum""The Premature Burial""The Purloined Letter""The Tell-Tale Heart"Poems:"Annabel Lee""The Bells""The City in the Sea""A Dream Within a Dream""To Helen""Lenore""The Raven""Ulalume"Other Works:The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket—Poe's only complete novelCollected EssaysAdditional Fan ResourcesAlso included are special features for any Poe enthusiast, including:A list of films and television series, both directly and indirectly inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe.A Reading Guide to fictional works that feature the historical Edgar Allan Poe as a character.Links to free, full-length audio recordings of the major poems and short stories in this collection.

    G. Wodehouse collection ever published. In addition to Wodehouse's best known and beloved Jeeves and Bertie stories, The Most of P. G. Wodehouse features delightful stories about The Drones Club and its affable, vacuous members: Mr. Mulliner, whose considered judgment on any and all topics is drawn from the experiences of his innumerable relatives; Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, the man of gilt-edged schemes; and Lord Emsworth, ruler of all he surveys at Blanding's Castle. Rounding out the collection are Wodehouses's witty golf stories and a complete and completely hilarious novel, Quick Service. As Jeeves would say, "The mind boggles, sir."

    Here, too, are portions  of the diary originally withheld from publication  by her father. By turns fantastical, rebellious,  touching, funny, and heartbreaking, these writings  reveal the astonishing range of Anne Frank's  wisdom and imagination--as well as her indomitable love  of life. Anne Frank's  Tales from the Secret Annex is a  testaments to this determined young woman's extraordinary  genius and to the persistent strength of the  creative spirit.From the Paperback edition.

    Adler, editor of Great Books of the Western World. It has been acknowledged by its author as his most personal work. Composed of poems, parables, and stories, sketches and apocryphal quotations, Dreamtigers at first glance appears to be a sampler—albeit a dazzling one—of the master's work. Upon closer examination, however, the reader discovers the book to be a subtly and organically unified self-revelation. Dreamtigers explores the mysterious territory that lies between the dreams of the creative artist and the "real" world. The central vision of the work is that of a recluse in the "enveloping serenity " of a library, looking ahead to the time when he will have disappeared but in the timeless world of his books will continue his dialogue with the immortals of the past — Homer, Don Quixote, Shakespeare. Like Homer, the maker of these dreams is afflicted with failing sight. Still, he dreams of tigers real and imagined, and reflects upon of a life that, above all, has been intensely introspective, a life of calm self-possession and absorption in the world of the imagination. At the same time he is keenly aware of that other Borges, the public figure about whom he reads with mixed emotions: "It's the other one, it's Borges, that things happen to."

    A dimension of splendor, terror and wonder—a shadow land that lies just between the limits of the imagination. Your host and guide is one of the world's best-known storytellers—a modern master of the fantastic... Rod Serling.Here, together for the first time, are nineteen of Serling's most memorable tales from the legendary series. So sit back and enjoy. There's a signpost up ahead. You've just crossed over into... The Twilight Zone.

    The eleven stories in this volume are drawn from Dahl's popular adult short stories and were chosen for their quirky, twisted, and haunting plots -- sure to please Dahl teenage fans.Contents vii • Introduction (Skin and Other Stories) • (2000) • essay by Wendy Cooling1 • Skin • non-genre • (1952) • short story by Roald Dahl22 • Lamb to the Slaughter • non-genre • (1953) • short story by Roald Dahl35 • The Sound Machine • (1949) • short story by Roald Dahl53 • An African Story • (1946) • short story by Roald Dahl71 • Galloping Foxley • non-genre • (1953) • short story by Roald Dahl90 • The Wish • (1948) • short story by Roald Dahl95 • The Surgeon • non-genre • (1988) • novelette by Roald Dahl129 • Dip in the Pool • non-genre • (1952) • short story by Roald Dahl144 • The Champion of the World • non-genre • (1959) • novelette by Roald Dahl179 • Beware of the Dog • non-genre • (1944) • short story by Roald Dahl195 • My Lady Love, My Dove • non-genre • (1952) • short story by Roald Dahl

    These ten absorbing stories, selected by a famed anthologist of science-fiction and the supernatural, prove that even after a century Poe's imagination still works it macabre magic.--back coverContains:The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Purloined Letter The Tell-Tale Heart The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar The Pit and the Pendulum A Tale of the Ragged Mountains A Descent Into the Maelstrom The Black Cat "thou Art the Man" Metzengerstein The Haunted Palace The City in the Sea To Helen Annabel Lee The Bells

    A treat for all fans of Georgette Heyer, and for those who love stories full of romance and intrigue.Affairs of honour between bucks and blades, rakes and rascals; affairs of the heart between heirs and orphans, beauties and bachelors; romance, intrigue, escapades and duels at dawn. All the gallantry, villainy and elegance of the age that Georgette Heyer has so triumphantly made her own are exquisitely revived in these wonderfully romantic stories of the Regency period.Contents:SnowdriftFull MoonPistols for TwoA Clandestine AffairBath MissA Husband for FannyTo Have the HonourNight at the InnThe DuelHazardPursuitRunaway MatchIncident on the Bath Road

    You wonder after meeting such a person whether she was real or imagined and then decide it doesn't really matter." Belles Lettres The silent rage that seizes a matriarch whose family is feting her eighty-ninth year. The tangle of emotions felt by a sophisticated young woman toward her elderly mother. An adolescent girl's obsessive fear of being looked at. The "giddying sense of compassion" that a blind man introduces into a young housewife's settled existence. Of such is made the world of Clarice Lispector, the Brazilian writer whose finest work is acknowledged to be her exquisitely crafted short stories. Here, in these thirteen of Lispector's most brilliantly conceived short stories, mysterious and unexpected moments of crisis propel characters to self-discovery or keenly felt intuitions about the human condition. Her characters mirror states of mind. Alienated by their unsettling sense of life's absurdity, they seem at times absorbed in their interior lives, and in the passions that dominate and usually defeat them.

    The master mariner and his crew—Dougie the mate, Macphail the engineer, Sunny Jim and the Tar—all play their part in evoking the irresistible atmosphere of a bygone age when puffers sailed between West Highland ports and the great city of Glasgow. This definitive edition contains all three collections published in the author's lifetime, as well as a new story never previously published which was discovered in 2001. Extensive notes accompany each story, providing fascinating insights into colloquialisms, place-names and historical events. This volume also includes a wealth of contemporary photographs, depicting the harbors, steamers and puffers from the age of the Vital Spark.

    Ciudad Real earned the author the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia in 1961. ''A subtle paradox inhabits these unrelenting stories???She manages her exposure of the racist underpinnings of society brilliantly; more than 30 years after these stories were written, the inhumanity they portray continues to chill the soul.'' ???Publishers Weekly

    The Mighty Casey2. Escape Clause3. Where Is Everybody?4. The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street5. Walking Distance6. The Whole Truth7. The Lonely8. Dust9. The Midnight Sun10. Mr. Dingle, the Strong11. The Odyssey of Flight 3312. The Big, Tall Wish13. The Rip Van Winkle Caper14. The Shelter

    19-year-old Louisa Tether runs away from her family the day before her sister’s wedding.Three years later, after the searching has died down, she decides to respond to her mother’s annual plea, and return home.

    A collection of short stories by a miraculous writer who can chill the spine, gorge the senses, and enlighten the heart as he describes a people and a way of life.

    Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge.

    Robert Sheckley says it's like that tiny pebble that sends ripples to the edge of the lake.And since Sheckley figures absolutely anything can happen, the possible futures he envisions romp buoyantly all the way from wretched to raucous.If you balk and boggle at some of these predictions, think of it this way: The future won't just happen - it will sneak up on you a little at a time!Contents:The Prize of Peril • (1958) • shortstoryThe Humours • (1958) • novella (aka Join Now)Triplication • (1960) • essayThe Minimum Man • (1958) • noveletteIf the Red Slayer • (1959) • shortstoryThe Store of the Worlds • (1959) • shortstoryThe Gun Without a Bang • (1958) • shortstoryThe Deaths of Ben Baxter • (1957) • novelette

    Greek myths retold for children.Prometheus and the fire of the gods --Pandora's box --Hercules --Apollo and Diana --Pegasus and Bellerophon --Jason and the golden fleece --Circe and Ulysses --Daedalus and Icarus --Pomona and Vertumnus --Atalanta and Hippomenes --Cupid and Apollo --Prosperpina and Pluto --Cupid and Psyche --Orpheus and Eurydice --Phaeton and the chariot of the sun --Arcas and Callisto --The golden touch --Perseus and Andromeda --Pygmalion and Galatea --Romulus and Remus

    

    machines intercepting murderers before they kill... an organization that makes hangover nightmares come true... a killer organism that feeds on atom bombs and thrives on being blown up from time to time! Notions: Unlimited, a fantastic exploration into the galaxies of probability.Contents:Gray Flannel ArmorThe LeechWatchbirdA Wind is RisingMorning AfterThe Native ProblemFeeding TimeParadise IIDouble IndemnityHoldoutDawn InvaderThe Language of Love

    Arcularis,” is a testament to the dazzling artistry of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers A young woman passes through the countryside to visit her dying grandmother for a final time. A cabbie, exhausted from a long day’s work, fights to get an intoxicated woman out of his taxi. A man on his way to a bachelor party tries to come to grips with the brutishness that lies within every gentleman—and finds that Bacardi cocktails do nothing to help.   A master craftsman whose poetry and prose offer profound insight into the riddle of consciousness, Conrad Aiken thrills, disturbs, and inspires in all forty-one of these astute and eloquent tales.

    

    "Maple Street, U.S.A., late summer. A tree-lined little world of front porch gliders, barbecues, the laughter of children, and the bell of an ice cream vendor. At the sound of the roar and the flash of light, it will be precisely 6:43 P.M. on Maple Street... This is Maple Street on a late Saturday afternoon. Maple Street in the last calm and reflective moment - before the monsters came."

    

    

    

    

    On Telling Stories • (1953) • Basil DavenportThe Beast with Five Fingers • (1919) • William Fryer HarveyBy One, by Two, and by Three • (1913) • Adrian RossSredni Vashtar • (1910) • SakiThe Two Bottles of Relish • (1932) • Lord DunsanyThe Book • (1930) • Margaret IrwinThus I Refute Beelzy • (1940) • John CollierMujina • (1904) • Lafcadio HearnThe Open Window • (1911) • SakiTwo Anecdotes • (1953) • AnonymousThe Closed Cabinet • (1915) • Anonymous

    The stories in this third collection from a master of speculative fiction are at once playful and dark, but each is wonderfully told.Contents include: The Music of the Yellow Brass A Classic Affair The New People Buck Fever The Magic Man Father, Dear Father Perchance to Dream Song for a Lady The Trigger The Guests of Chance (with Chad Oliver) The Love-Master A Death in the Country The Neighbors The Howling Man Night Ride

    A translation from Russian of the Science Fiction short story by Valentina Zhuravlyova, by Leonid Kolesnikov.

    Per policy, the ISBN has been moved to the more recently published book.---The Best . . . by the Best. Six compelling novelettes from six master storytellers. "Galley Slave" by Isaac Asimov: The Three Laws of Positronic Robots made it impossible to kill a human, but there was a loophole . . . murdering a man after his death! "Project Nursemaid" by Judith Merril: A fascinatingly documented, human story about the nearly insuperable difficulties of colonizing the moon. "Final Gentleman" by Clifford D. Simak: Was Hollis Harrington really more than one man? "Chain Reaction" by Algis Budrys: Any man will struggle for the right to live by his own beliefs -- even if those beliefs can lead to his own death. "Rule Golden" by Damon Knight: Will the aliens land with fire and the sword? Or will they come offering friendship? Or will they try to change the ways men think of war and peace? "Incommunicado" by Katherine MacLean: There was trouble on Station A. Cliff Baker said that everyone was going crazy -- but no one would listen to him.

    This collection of four novellas each present a striking contrast in theme, place, character and atmosphere.A young girl being remorselessly corrupted, while under the illusion of love, in a small English garrison town; two English holiday-makers, middle-aged, diffident and confused, playing a game of emotional hide-and-seek with each other on an Italian lake, their affair half-comic, half-sad; a fruit-farmer, unable to satisfy the demands of a selfish and stupid wife trying to climb the cultural ladder, who deludes himself into thinking he can evolve a new kind of apple; and lastly a South Sea Island girl, ugly and primitive, giving everything in a passion for a passing traveller.To each story bates brings his own special quality of poetic realism, evocation and understanding of human values that have made him a master of this particular form.