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10 best books like The Unabridged Jack London (Jack London): Stories for Christmas, Daring Spectacle: Adventures in Deviant Journalism, Kiss, Kiss / Switch Bitch / My Uncle Oswald, Louisa May Alcott: An Intimate Anthology, The Unabridged Mark Twain, Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America, The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection, The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism, Legends of Charlemagne, Tales and Sketches

Stories for Christmas
AuthorCharles Dickens
ISBN1879582414
The first collected Edition of Dicken's contributions to the Christmas numbers of 'Household Words' and 'All the Year Round' was issued in the 'Charles Dickens' Edition of his works in 1871, under the general title of Christmas Stories from 'Household Words' and 'All Year Round'. The present Edition...
Daring Spectacle: Adventures in Deviant Journalism
AuthorMark Morford
The Daring Spectacle is award-winning San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate columnist and culture critic Mark Morford’s hilarious modern record of sex and media, politics and pop culture, love and lust, as told in ninety-two delectable parts—not including all the delicious photos and terrifying...
Kiss, Kiss / Switch Bitch / My Uncle Oswald
AuthorRoald Dahl
ISBN0965076474
For short stories that manage to be funny, sexy, and macabre all at one, here are Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch, two collections by "the absolute master of the twist-in-the-tale," says the Observers. My Uncle Oswald is a hilarious novel that follows the erotic exploits of the "the greatest fornicator of...
Louisa May Alcott: An Intimate Anthology
AuthorLouisa May Alcott
ISBN0385487223
1) The Rival Painters: A Tale of Rome
2) The Rival Prima Donnas
3) The Frost-King: or, The Power of Love
4) The Lady and the Woman
5) Love and Self-Love
6) Hope's Debut
7) Thrice Tempted
8) Perilous Play
9) M.L.
10) A Night
11) The Blue and the Gray, A Hospital Sketch

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The Unabridged Mark Twain
AuthorMark Twain
ISBN0914294547
1) A Burlesque Biography
2) The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
3) The Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins
4) The Awful German Language
5) Life on the Mississippi
6) A Medieval Romance
7) Extracts from Adam's Diary
8) Eve's Diary
9) Roughing it
10) How to Tell a Story
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Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America
AuthorDavid Willis McCullough
ISBN0394540654
For enthralling suspense and brilliant detection, there has never been a collection to match this one, with complete novels by Ross Macdonald and Ruth Rendell, a novella by Israel Zangwill, and sixteen short stories by the best mystery writers from England and America—Dorothy Sayers, G.K. Chesterton,...
The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection
AuthorClifton Fadiman
ISBN0395368057
At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of...
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism
AuthorKevin Kerrane
ISBN0684846306
This fascinating compilation of the journalist's art unites the reporter's magnificent eye for detail with the novelist's gift for storytelling. Featuring eyewitness accounts of war and social revolution, profiles of sports heroes and politicians, and eye-opening investigations into both...
Legends of Charlemagne
AuthorThomas Bulfinch
ISBN0028614771
Here are the world s most-loved stories, in a dynamic visual tour de force for today s readers. Each timeless myth is superbly presented in story form and enhanced with original art work by world-renowned artist Giovanni Caselli. Though Bulfinch s has been heralded for more than a century, it has never...
Tales and Sketches
AuthorNathaniel Hawthorne
ISBN0940450038
This Library of America volume offers what no reader has ever been able to find—an authoritative edition of all the tales and sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne in a single comprehensive volume. Everything is included from his three books of stories, Twice-told Tales (1837, revised 1851), Mosses...
The Complete Short Stories: Volume 1
AuthorD.H. Lawrence
ISBN0140043829
I don't agree with "the judgment of many" that Lawrence was at his best within the constrained discipline of the short story, that the shorter form restricted him from indulging in his notorious rambling & repetitions "which mar some of his longer works." In my opinion, the novel gave him the freedom...
The Wide Net and Other Stories
AuthorEudora Welty
ISBN0156966107
These eight stories reveal the singular imaginative power of one of America's most admired writers. Set in the Old Natchez Trace region, the stories dip in and out of history and range from virgin wilderness to a bar in New Orleans. In each story, Miss Welty sustains the high level of performance that,...
Faeries (Magical Worlds of Fantasy)
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0451450612
Features:

ANDRE NORTON LORD DUNSANY POUL ANDERSON JESSICA AMANDA SALMONSON THOMAS BURNETT SWANN JAMES HOGG LAFCADIO HEARN RICHARD McKENNA MARY E. WILKINS PHILIP K. DICK HENRY SLESAR HERMINIE TEMPLETON H. C. BAILEY JOHANN LUDWIG TIECK JOHN BUCHAN ROBERT F. YOUNG ISAAC...
Comrade Loves of the Samurai
AuthorSaikaku Ihara
ISBN4805307714
Ihara Saikaku é um autor japonês do séc. 17, na era Endo. Este livro contêm contos homoeroticos (nanshoku = amor entre homens) entre samurais, monges budistas e atores do teatro Noh. Muitos destes contos sao tragédias amorosas de fazer inveja a Romeu e Julieta, com personagens cometendo harakiri...
The Tomorrow-Tamer
AuthorMargaret Laurence
ISBN0771098944
The ten stories gathered together in The Tomorrow-Tamer are Margaret Laurence’s first published fiction. Set in raucous and often terrifying Ghana, where shiny Jaguars and modern jazz jostle for eminence against fetish figures, tribal rites, and the unchanging beat of jungle drums, the stories...
Small Avalanches and Other Stories
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0060012196
When The Sky Blue Ball comes soaring over the fence, a high-school girl is confronted with the haunting memory of childhood. A jealous teen lets her cousin go off alone with a dangerous Capricorn, aware of the terrifying possibilities. A vulnerable young girl cunningly outwits a menacing stranger...
Roads of Destiny
AuthorO. Henry
Perhaps, if he had known that Adele had stood at the gate on that unlucky night, where she had followed, lingering, to await the return of her brother and lover, wondering why they had chosen so tempestuous an hour and so black a spot to hold converse--if he had known that a sudden flash of lightning had revealed...
The Lost World & Other Stories
AuthorArthur Conan Doyle
These lively, varied and thought-provoking science-fiction stories (from the era of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells) are linked by their imposing central character, the pugnaciously adventurous and outrageous Professor Challenger. The Lost World (forebear of Jurassic Park) vividly depicts a perilous...
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