Download or read book Dover The Collected Short Stories written by Joyce Porter and published by Prelude Books. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of crime fiction. Honestly, why should he even be bothered to solve the case? Collected here are eleven unforgettable short stories in the Dover series, from the 1969 story ‘Dover Pulls a Rabbit’, to ‘A Souvenir for Dover’. Editorial reviews: “Something quite out of the ordinary.” Daily Telegraph “Joyce Porter is a joy... Dover is unquestionably the most entertaining detective in fiction.” Guardian “Plotted with the technique of a virtuoso.” New York Times “Wonderfully funny.” Spectator “Dover is wildly, joyously unbelievable; and may he remain so for our comic delight.” Sun “You will be fascinated by his sheer dazzling incompetence. Porter has a keen eye, a wicked sense of comedy, and a delightfully low mind.” Harper’s

Download or read book Dover The Collected Short Stories written by Joyce Porter and published by Prelude Books. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of crime fiction. Honestly, why should he even be bothered to solve the case? Collected here are eleven unforgettable short stories in the Dover series, from the 1969 story ‘Dover Pulls a Rabbit’, to ‘A Souvenir for Dover’. Editorial reviews: “Something quite out of the ordinary.” Daily Telegraph “Joyce Porter is a joy... Dover is unquestionably the most entertaining detective in fiction.” Guardian “Plotted with the technique of a virtuoso.” New York Times “Wonderfully funny.” Spectator “Dover is wildly, joyously unbelievable; and may he remain so for our comic delight.” Sun “You will be fascinated by his sheer dazzling incompetence. Porter has a keen eye, a wicked sense of comedy, and a delightfully low mind.” Harper’s

Download or read book Great English Short Stories written by Paul Negri and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVFirst-rate selections include Hardy's "The Fiddler of the Reels," James' "Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad," Dickens' "The Haunted Hotel," and tales by Saki, Kipling, Lawrence, Trollope, Stevenson, and others. /div

Download or read book The Necklace and Other Short Stories written by Guy de Maupassant and published by Dover Publications. This book was released on 1992-02-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French author Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a master of the short story, creating detailed character studies and brief but moving dramas well suited to the genre. The nine stories in this collection provide a vivid portrait gallery of his typical subjects — from simple peasants and prostitutes to soldiers, government clerks, and provincial bourgeois. Brilliantly naturalistic, these short works also reveal Maupassant's ability to observe the innumerable details of everyday life and reproduce them artfully and accurately, often with a caustic sense of humor. His literary talents are amply displayed in this volume, which includes these memorable tales: "Ball-of-Fat," regarded by many as technically one of the finest short stories ever written, "The Necklace," "A Piece of String," "Mme. Tellier's Establishment," "Mademoiselle Fifi," "Miss Harriet," "A Way to Wealth," "My Uncle Jules," and "The Horla."

Download or read book Classic American Short Stories written by Clarence C. Strowbridge and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen short masterpieces, chosen for their timeless relevance and enduring popularity, include works by Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Bret Harte, O. Henry, Sherwood Anderson, Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, and 9 others. Large print edition.

Download or read book The World s Greatest Short Stories written by James Daley and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from the 19th to the 20th centuries, this wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable anthology includes Tolstoy, Kipling, Chekhov, Joyce, Kafka, Pirandello, Mann, Updike, Borges, and other major writers of world literature.

Download or read book The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete texts of "The Happy Prince and Other Tales," "A House of Pomegranates," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories," "Poems in Prose," and "The Portrait of Mr. W. H."

Download or read book Short Stories written by Louisa May Alcott and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of five poignant stories written by Louisa May Alcott, drawn from her personal experiences at the military hospital in Georgetown during the Civil War.

Download or read book In A Twisted Mind A Collection of Short Stories written by Larry R. Liberty and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A farm family in northern New Jersey is constantly shaken by a new airport. Supernatural activity, noise, and fear forces the family to relocate their farm to rural Northeastern Pennsylvania. An ironic and twisted ending. People in northern Montana are disappearing, especially when those lights appear in the "Big Sky." An investigative reporter discovers it's happening in every state. He then discovers a government conspiracy and a secret ancient society. The rest is yummy, but not for him. An archeologist in Tibet discovers a new species of terrestrial worm averaging 20 feet in length and 2 feet in diameter. He collects some eggs and returns to his home on the Palisades in Alpine New Jersey. He buries the eggs along the Palisades and is soon overrun with these giant worms, so he harvests them for a fishermen's bait and becomes very wealthy with a chain of bait stores. Later his worms are found to be very intelligent and have an agenda. In a humorous twist, the worm meat is found to cure insanity and Washington D.C. has an epiphany. What's with the cartons of Pall Mall cigarettes piled high? The children in ancient Egypt are stricken with a flue like virus. The following generations of boys started wearing skirts and have no interest in girls. Soon the great dynasty went into decline as the population decreased. Other empires suffered the same fate until modern science explained the reason, and embraced the virus for population control. A humorous and outrageous take on homosexuality. A glitch in software at a dictionary publisher turns out a prototype copy with half the words given the wrong definitions. The one defective copy is accidentally placed in a child's backpack. While on vacation in the South Pacific the editor and his young sons are marooned on an uncharted island when their high speed boat crashes into a rocky beach. The editor suffers a head injury and his young sons must fend for themselves. The only source of education is the defective dictionary in the child's backpack. They are rescued after 10 years and return to the United States, the boys are teens, and dad lost most of his marbles. They become wards of their uncle, and when they enter society, their scrambled words make for a hilarious chain of events. Unending, with a twist.

Download or read book 100 Great Short Stories written by James Daley and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This treasury of 100 tales offers a volume of remarkable value to students and readers of short fiction. Selections by masters of the form from all over world include Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Nikolai Gogol, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, Anton Chekhov, Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Saki, and Henry James"--

Download or read book G K Chesterton The Dover Reader written by G.K. Chesterton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents include unabridged texts of "The Man Who Was Thursday "and" The Club of Queer Trades"; the classic study of Christian morality, " Orthodoxy"; a selection of Father Brown stories; and several essays.

Download or read book Short Stories written by Theodore Dreiser and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five powerful stories: "Free," the story of a man trying, as his wife lies dying, to understand why he never found happiness in marriage plus "The Second Choice," "Married," "Nigger Jeff," and "The Lost Phœbe."

Download or read book Edith Wharton The Dover Reader written by Wharton, Edith and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into wealth and aristocracy, Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was a member as well as an observer of fashionable New York society. Aspirations to authorship consigned her to outsider status among the idle rich; nevertheless, she drew upon her privileged social position to create witty and psychologically insightful novels and short stories about people from all walks of life. This well-rounded introduction to Wharton's works features the complete text of her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Age of Innocence, as well as her haunting novella, Ethan Frome. Several excerpts from her highly influential guide to interior design, The Decoration of Houses, offer samples of Wharton's nonfiction style. The collection also includes four short stories as well as several poems.

Download or read book American Short Story Masterpieces written by Clarence C. Strowbridge and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An affordable compilation of more than a dozen of the best American short stories features tales by Hawthorne, Twain, James, Cheever, Wharton, and Cather. Contents include "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat," and "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty.

Download or read book Eleven Short Stories written by Luigi Pirandello and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVMasterly stories include "Little Hut," "With Other Eyes," "A Voice," "Citrons from Sicily," "A Character’s Tragedy," six more. English translations. /div

Download or read book 100 Great American Short Stories written by John Grafton and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes "The Eyes of the Panther," Ambrose Bierce; "The Locket," Kate Chopin; "Out of Season," Ernest Hemingway; "The Black Cat," Edgar Allan Poe; "Luck," Mark Twain; "The Dilettante," Edith Wharton; more.

Download or read book James Joyce The Dover Reader written by James Joyce and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primer of influential and innovative works features A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in its entirety, excerpts from Ulysses, the short story collection Dubliners, the play Exiles, and Chamber Music, an early book of poems.