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The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen Other Tales

10 best books like The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen Other Tales (Robert Louis Stevenson): The Unrest-Cure and Other Stories, The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime, Great Sonnets, Short Stories, Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems, Abba Abba, Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1891–1910, The Distracted Preacher, Collected Stories of Guy De Maupassant

The Unrest-Cure and Other Stories
AuthorSaki
ISBN1590176243
The whimsical, macabre tales of British writer H. H. Munro—better known as Saki—deftly, mercilessly, and hilariously skewer the banality and hypocrisy of polite upper-class English society between the end of Queen Victoria’s reign and the beginning of World War I. Their heroes are clever,...
The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone
AuthorSeamus Heaney
ISBN0374530076
Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's security. During the War of the Seven Against Thebes, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, learns that...
The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
AuthorMichael Sims
ISBN0143105663
Take a trip back to a time when criminals armed themselves with wit rather than with guns, and the pinnacle of crime-fighting technology was represented by Sherlock Holmes's magnifying glass. Edited by award-winning author and editor Michael Sims, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime presents, for...
Great Sonnets
AuthorPaul Negri
ISBN0486280527
Treasury of over 170 English and American sonnets by more than 70 poets, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?", Milton's "On His Blindness," Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much with Us," many more by Spenser, Sidney, Blake, Byron, Coleridge,...
Short Stories
AuthorEdith Wharton
Described by literary critic Robert Morss Lovett as "a novelist of civilization, absorbed in the somewhat mechanical operations of civilization, absorbed in the somewhat mechanical operations of culture, preoccupied with the upper ('and inner') class," Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith...
Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems
AuthorElizabeth Barrett Browning
ISBN0486270521
Excerpt from Sonnets From the Portuguese, and Other Poems
In the very heart and center of our modern world of the nineteenth century there was enacted and immortally sung one of the most exquisite love-histories of which the world has knowledge. The marriage of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett...
Abba Abba
AuthorAnthony Burgess
ISBN0749390387
This is Anthony Burgess's 22nd novel. A Clockwork Orange (1962) was his Ninth.

The theme of the book "ABBA ABBA" concerns itself with the last months in the life of John Keats. In Part One, the poet has various adventures such as meeting the Roman poet, who becomes an acquaintance, Giuseppe Gioacchino...
Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1891–1910
AuthorMark Twain
ISBN0940450739
This Library of America book, with its companion volume, is the most comprehensive collection ever published of Mark Twain’s short writings — the incomparable stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires, and maxims of America’s greatest humorist. Arranged chronologically...
The Distracted Preacher
AuthorThomas Hardy
ISBN1612191118
From the master of Victorian tragedy, the surprisingly comic adventures of a man caught between romance and religion.
 
When young Mr. Stockdale arrives in a small village to fill in for the Methodist minister, he finds himself pining for his comely new landlady. But she leads a mysterious...
Collected Stories of Guy De Maupassant
AuthorGuy de Maupassant
ISBN0517457512

Collected Stories of Guy de Maupassant is part of the  series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &...
The Collected Stories
AuthorDylan Thomas
ISBN0811209989
Here, too, are stories originally written for radio and television and, in a short appendix, the schoolboy pieces first published in the Swansea Grammar School Magazine. A highpoint of the collection is Thomas's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, a vivid collage of memories from his Swansea childhood...
Heart of Darkness: and Selections from The Congo Diary
AuthorJoseph Conrad
Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 037575377X here.

With an Introduction by Caryl Phillips
Commentary by H.L. Mencken, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chiua Achebe, and Philip Gourevitch

"Heart of...
Too Far Afield
AuthorGünter Grass
ISBN0156014165
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of My Century and The Tin Drum, a novel of broad historical proportions set in Berlin during the years of German reunification.

Two old men roam through Berlin observing life in the former German Democratic Republic after the fall of the Wall in 1989. Theo...
Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen und andere Satiren
AuthorHeinrich Böll
ISBN3462029614
Gewiß hat man den Satiriker Böll, den Meister der kleinen Form, über dem Romancier Böll zu Unrecht übersehen. Der vorliegende Band, der die besten satirischen Erzählungen des Autors sammelt, liefert den Beweis. Bölls Humor ist Vereinfachung ins Phantastische, die Verlogenheit und Talmiglanz...
Temná hlídka
AuthorVladimir Vasilev
ISBN8072548042
V Benátkách Severu neboli v Sankt Petěrburgu se zničehonic objeví nezkrotná sekta Temných, kteří si říkají Černí. Krvavé lidské oběti, výrony energie neuvěřitelné síly, před níž se i moc mágů, jako je Zavulon či Geser, zdá nepatrná, podivné obřady - to vše zneklidňuje...
Don Carlos and Mary Stuart
AuthorFriedrich Schiller
ISBN0192839853
Don Carlos and Mary Stuart, two of German literature's greatest dramas, deal with the timeless issues of power, freedom, and justice. Dating from 1787 and 1800 respectively, one play was written before the French Revolution, the other in its aftermath. Both dramatize periods of crisis in 16th-century...
Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther
AuthorJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
ISBN8854102423
The German Library is a new series of the major works of German literature and thought from medieval times to the present. The volumes have forewords by internationally known writers and introductions by prominent scholars. Here the English-speaking reader can find the broadest possible collection...
The Old Man and the Sea/The Sun Also Rises/A Farewell to Arms/For Whom the Bell Tolls
AuthorErnest Hemingway
ISBN0684179288
CLASSIC SHORT STORIES FROM THE MASTER OF AMERICAN FICTION First published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway's most important and compelling early writing. In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of...
The New York Stories of Henry James
AuthorHenry James
ISBN1590171624
Henry James led a wandering life, which took him far from his native shores, but he continued to think of New York City, where his family had settled for several years during his childhood, as his hometown. Here Colm Tóibín, the author of the Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel The Master, a portrait...
The Riverside Milton
AuthorJohn Milton
ISBN0395809991
The first one-volume anthology of John Milton's complete poetry and selected prose to be published in over 30 years, The Riverside Milton reflects the highest quality and most current scholarship. As editor of The Milton Quarterly for 30 years, Roy Flannagan is uniquely qualified to survey Milton's...
Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress
AuthorJan Morris
ISBN0571194664

We don’t want to fight, but by jingo if we do,

We’ve got the ships, we’ve got the men, we’ve got the money too!

INNOCENTS ABROAD!

This is history told through a patchwork of breezy anecdotes — that might not even fit together well enough, but still achieves...
Stories by O. Henry (Walmart)
AuthorO. Henry
ISBN: 1559029838 (Do NOT enter in ISBN field!)

Born William Sidney Porter in 1862, O. Henry first lived a checkered life as a cowhand, bank teller, reporter, embezzler, and convict. Then, in a last-minute reversal worthy of one of his own stories, he turned to fiction, and became a celebrated...
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