After his parents died, young Ben Hammon came to western Colorado where his uncle Scott was a small-town lawman. Ben had much to learn, especially about the Kean family. A classic short novel and six great tales of the Old West from the...
Short Stories
- Author:SCHAEFER, JackSummary:
- Author:Kipling, RudyardSummary:
The adventures of Mowgli, man-child, reared by the jungle wolf packs and educated by wild animals. Includes other classic jungle stories by Kipling.
- Author:Kipling, RudyardSummary:
Presents more adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the jungle. Also includes other short stories set in India.
- Author:WISTER, OwenSummary:
The Jimmyjohn Boss; A Kinsman of Red Cloud; Sharon's Choice; Napoleon Shave-Tail; Twenty Minutes for Refreshments; The Promised Land; Hank's Woman; Padre Ignazio.
- Author:CREATIVE WRITING GROUP OF ABWASummary:
Stories, poems and articles in this first edition of work by W.A. writers from the Association.
- Author:Wangersky, RussellSummary:
Russell Wangersky's characters, caught in a variety of human circumstances, make some outstandingly bad decisions in this first short fiction collection by a prominent Canadian journalist.
This first short fiction collection by a...
- Author:CHRISTIE, AgathaSummary:
Twelve short stories, each underlining the remarkable versatility of the writer. Some will make you shift uneasily in your chair, others will give satisfaction.
- Author:Carlucci, PaulSummary:
A gritty, Canadian Cormac McCarthy. A rich interplay between the characters and their surroundings, an environment that swarms the characters, sometimes inflicting harm. Drugs. Violence. Racism. Despair. The tiny, northern town of Fort...
- Author:Hawthorne, NathanielSummary:
Presents four short stories by the 19th century New England writer.
- Author:CRANE, WalterSummary:
The Frog Prince; Princess Belle-Etoile; Aladdin and the wonderful lamp.
- Author:Lawrence, D. H.Summary:
Two women isolated on a lonely Cornish farm face an evil greater than all others: a fox has begun carrying off hens and roosters, and nothing they do seems to stop him. And then one day, a mysterious young man appears at the door. Now...
- Author:COURTENAY, BryceSummary:
Mrs Moses is a small woman with a big heart and enormous courage. The only survivor of a Cossack raid on her village, she takes with her a big cast-iron frying pan, so heavy that she can only sling it over her back. Yet this is no...
- Author:Neels, BettySummary:
Contains two short harlequin romance novels. "An ordinary Girl" by Betty Neels concerns a woman and a professor who fall in love. However, he alreadys has a beautiful and glamorous fiance. "A Perfect Proposal" by...
- Author:MAUGHAM, William SomersetSummary:
When the Colonel's wife publishes a book of poetry, he is slow to realize the significance of the secrets revealed on its pages.
- Author:Davis, LydiaSummary:
Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers, a storyteller celebrated for her emotional acuity, her formal inventiveness, and her ability to capture the mind in overdrive. She has been called "an American virtuoso of...
- Author:NORTON, MarySummary:
The Borrowers, a family of tiny people, are kidnapped from their home in Little Fordham and held captive in an attic.
- Author:SCHAEFFER, JackSummary:
Western short stories with a difference. The characters and experiences are drawn from fact and history.
- Author:Hodgins, JackSummary:
With The Barclay Family Theatre, his second collection of short stories, Jack Hodgins introduces us to a cast of characters who transform the everyday world of Vancouver Island into a wondrous world of human warmth and comic energy....
- Author:HARRIS, RolfSummary:
Collection of funny, heartwarming and incredible animal stories.
- Author:Poe, Edgar AllanSummary:
With these stories, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, Hop Frog, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Murders in...