The Secret Of The Old Warehouse And Other Stories

Author : Imelda Rose Kaufman
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781644582848

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The Secret of the Old Warehouse, And Other Stories by Imelda Rose Kaufman Pdf

Jacob Malloy was a strong, energetic lad of thirteen who lived with his family in the small suburb of Baytown. His life was far from boring because school and church always provided plenty of activities. However, being of an inquisitive nature, Jake was ever ready for something new and different. He was intrigued by an old, abandoned warehouse near the railroad tracks. What it had been used for originally, he had no idea, but he was itching to get inside and look around. Surely, there must be something of interest in that old building! Any chance of his being able to satisfy his curiosity, however, seemed nonexistent because the windows were boarded up. Imagine his surprise when one Saturday on his way to his friend's house, he noticed that one of the boards had come loose and was hanging by a nail! This was an opportunity not to be missed! He convinced his friend, a rather reluctant Joe Reilly, to accompany him on this adventure. Together, they managed to open the window and squeeze through it. The boys found that though seemingly abandoned, the building was not vacant! Their adventure turned deadly when they were discovered and imprisoned! The story shifts back and forth from them to their frantic parents and friends and the efforts made to find them. There is a story within the story as friends, Robert and Jonathan, and their parents have an adventure of their own and make a life-changing discovery.

Author : Boston Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : English fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:HNKM8R

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Catalogue of English Prose Fiction and Books for the Young in the Lower Hall of the Boston Public Library by Boston Public Library Pdf

Author : John Craig
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781300156970

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Mile High Cold and other Stories by John Craig Pdf

Ten stories and a novella. Steampunk, Sci-Fi Dystopian, Fantasy, American Wild West, Horror, American Detective Noir -- Freelance, The Kid in the Cold, In the Eyes, Blanket of Crickets, Hunger, Invisible Chain, Le Morte d'Dupin, The Spring Stand, Three Ravens, The Case of the Glowing Scarabs, Mile High Cold

Author : St. Louis Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112126779146

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Class List ...: English prose fiction. 1897 by St. Louis Public Library Pdf

Author : William T. Vollmann
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698135482

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Last Stories and Other Stories by William T. Vollmann Pdf

Supernaturally tinged stories from William T. Vollmann, author of the National Book Award winner Europe Central In this magnificent new work of fiction, his first in nine years, celebrated author William T. Vollmann offers a collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death, and the erotic. A Bohemian farmer’s dead wife returns to him, and their love endures, but at a gruesome price. A geisha prolongs her life by turning into a cherry tree. A journalist, haunted by the half-forgotten killing of a Bosnian couple, watches their story, and his own wartime tragedy, slip away from him. A dying American romances the ghost of his high school sweetheart while a homeless salaryman in Tokyo animates paper cutouts of ancient heroes. Are ghosts memories, fantasies, or monsters? Is there life in death? Vollmann has always operated in the shadowy borderland between categories, and these eerie tales, however far-flung their settings, all focus on the attempts of the living to avoid, control, or even seduce death. Vollmann’s stories will transport readers to a fantastical world where love and lust make anything possible.

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Secret Agent & Other Works (Set of 3 Bestseller Books by Joseph Conrad) The Secret Agent/ A Personal Record/ The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad Pdf

Author : Lovecraft H.
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785521055340

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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories by Lovecraft H. Pdf

После смерти деда главный герой получает в наследство результаты исследований таинственных событий в Бостоне, связанных с деятельностью некой секты. Страшное землетрясение пробуждает от векового сна Повелителя Древности и его приближенных. Те, кто послабее рассудком, сходят с ума. «Ктулху восстанет в назначенный час» – поют служители жестокого культа, принося человеческие жертвы своему богу… Истории, вошедшие в сборник, отражают фантастические и мрачные сны, которые всю жизнь тревожили их автора – Говарда Лавкрафта. Легендарный рассказ «Зов Ктулху» стал основой для настоящего литературного культа. Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679641315

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A Christmas Carol and Other Stories by Charles Dickens Pdf

An immediate bestseller when it was first published in December 1843, A Christmas Carol has endured ever since as a perennial Yuletide favorite. Charles Dickens's beloved tale about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge--who comes to know the meaning of kindness, charity, and goodwill through a haunting Christmas Eve encounter with four ghosts--is a heartwarming celebration of the spirit of Christmas. 'Whether the Christmas visions would or would not convert Scrooge, they convert us,' wrote G. K. Chesterton. 'The story sings from end to end like a happy man going home.' The Modern Library edition also presents two more of Dickens's popular Christmas stories, The Chimes and The Haunted Man, Dickens's last Christmas tale, which features one of his greatest comic families, the Tetterbys. With an introduction by John Irving.

Author : John E. Robbins Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Libraries
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080248560

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Catalogue of the Library by John E. Robbins Library Pdf

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 3172 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547811398

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CHARLES DICKENS – The Complete Short Stories: 190+ Christmas Tales, Social Sketches, Tales for Children & Other Stories (Illustrated) by Charles Dickens Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "CHARLES DICKENS – The Complete Short Stories: 190+ Christmas Tales, Social Sketches, Tales for Children & Other Stories (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Christmas Novellas A Christmas Carol The Chimes The Cricket on the Hearth The Battle of Life The Haunted Man Short Story Collections Sketches by Boz Sketches of Young Gentlemen Sketches of Young Couples Master Humphrey' Clock Reprinted Pieces The Mudfog Papers Pearl-Fishing (First Series) Pearl-Fishing (Second Series) Christmas Stories Other Stories Children's Books Child's Dream of a Star Holiday Romance Stories About Children Every Child Can Read Criticism Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens The Limitations of Dickens by Henry James The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot by Andrew Lang David Copperfield by Virginia Woolf Biographies Charles Dickens by G. K. Chesterton The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster Dickens' London by M. F. Mansfield Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590300818

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The lamplighter's story; Hunted down; The detective police; and other nouvellettes. Petersons' uniform ed by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : William S Gilbert
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780714549057

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Triumph of Vice and Other Stories by William S Gilbert Pdf

Gilbert's libretti of the comic operas composed by Arthur Sullivan are hugely well known, and lines such as "e;let the punishment fit the crime"e; have entered the English lexicon - but his short stories also deserve to be rediscovered by the modern reader. This collection, carefully curated by the secretary of the W.S. Gilbert Society, brings together the best of these sharp, clever, comical tales - many of which are published here for the first time since their first appearance in ephemeral magazines - enriched with the author's own illustrations. The stories feature many of the powerful motifs so associated with his work - fairies, elixirs, magic - and a wide variety of characters - from burglars to barristers and shopkeepers to gentlemen. This volume is shot through with the observational wit which drove Gilbert and Sullivan's works to fame, and constitutes a hugely enjoyable companion for fans of the pair's theatrical oeuvre.

Author : H.P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781631498404

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The Call of Cthulhu: And Other Stories by H.P. Lovecraft Pdf

The essential literary collection of H. P. Lovecraft’s ten finest short stories, from the celebrated editor of the two-volume New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft. An indispensable collection of the best of one of literature’s “most critically fascinating and yet enigmatic figures” (Alan Moore), featuring H. P. Lovecraft’s most bone-chilling tales, including: “Dagon”, “The Outsider”, “The Music of Erich Zann”, “The Rats in the Walls”, “The Call of Cthulhu", “The Colour Out of Space”, “The Dunwich Horror”, “The Shadow over Innsmouth”, “The Shadow Out of Time” and “The Haunter of the Dark”. Though he died an unknown, dejected pulp-magazine writer in 1937, Howard Phillips Lovecraft is now considered the first great “genius of weird fiction” (Peter Straub). There is no better guide through the peculiarities of his universe than Leslie S. Klinger, whose work as annotator of the “exciting and definitive” (Danielle Trussoni, New York Times Book Review) New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft has proven him a leading Lovecraft scholar. Keenly aware of the author’s inspiration of “dozens—hundreds—of stories written by others playing in [his] galactic sandbox,” Klinger now presents this essential reader’s edition for both fanatics and newcomers to the canon. Equipped with explanatory annotations and sharp historical insight, this highly accessible?collection features Lovecraft’s ten most profound and unnerving short stories. From the early tale “Dagon” to the mature and sprawling “The Haunter of the Dark,” these expertly curated stories built a Lovecraftian sense of dread that has reverberated in the world of horror literature for generations: that all of us are “outsiders” in the universe.

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393614794

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The Secret Sharer and Other Stories (International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) by Joseph Conrad Pdf

This Norton Critical Edition includes four stories—two set on stormy seas, two on calm seas, all four based on the same incident—that speak to each other in interesting ways. The stories in this Norton Critical Edition maintain the connection and sequencing that Joseph Conrad saw among them. In his “Author’s Note” to ‘Twixt Land and Sea, Conrad writes of his two “Calm-pieces” (“The Secret Sharer” and The Shadow-Line) and his two “Storm-pieces” (The Nigger of the “Narcissus” and “Typhoon”). This edition is based on the first English book edition for the stories and the first American edition for the “Author’s Note” for The Shadow-Line, “Typhoon,” and “The Secret Sharer.” The stories are accompanied by explanatory annotations, a note on the texts (including a list of textual emendations), and a preface. “Backgrounds and Contexts” brings together relevant correspondence and contemporary reviews from both British and American sources. Also included are documents related to Conrad’s sources for the stories, among them Charles Arthur Sankey’s “Ordeal of the Cutty Sark: A True Story of Mutiny, Murder on the High Seas.” To help readers navigate, the editor includes a glossary of nautical terms as well as diagrams of the kinds of ships that appear in the stories. “Criticism” includes fifteen essays representing both new and established voices. The essays are arranged by story, with the focus on Conrad’s major themes—colonialism, narrative, gender, and race. Albert J. Guerard, Lillian Nayder, Mark D. Larabee, Fredric Jameson, F. R. Leavis, and John G. Peters are among the contributors. A chronology of Conrad’s life and work and a selected bibliography are also included.

Author : Robert Wendell
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595224166

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The Lupus Kid and Other Stories by Robert Wendell Pdf

The Lupus Kid and Other Stories For a year Bob Wendell recorded the path his life took through illness and despair. He was alive and grateful for that much. But the turn his relationship would take, and the downfall of those around him, made Wendell question the very meaning of his existence. Set under the gray skies of the Pacific Northwest, The Lupus Kid and Other Stories gives more than insight into life with chronic illness; it provides a glimpse into the human condition and the struggle to maintain dignity and hope. And that while hope doesn't come easily, it is sometimes found in the most unlikely places. "But tomorrow comes and even as agonizingly slowly as the days pass, they nonetheless do. And whether you're having the time of your life, or the hell of your life, they pass in a collective whole and are gone, irretrievably so." From The Lupus Kid and Other Stories