“short comic stories”

Poet, novelist, painter and musician, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is the grand master of Bengali culture, and in the 1890s he concentrated on creating a new form, the short story. Many of his best stories were written during a period of relative isolation spent managing his family's estates in ... More

A refreshing new anthology of stories by Tolstoy, O. Henry, H. E. Bates, Katherine Mansfield, Conan Doyle, D. H. Lawrence, Chekov, Ray Bradbury, Hemingway and R. K. Narayan. Comprehensive notes and exercises are appended.... More

This book is filled with a variety of short entertaining stories that will interest readers of different genres. There is a little bit of everything for everyone, tinges of suspense, fantasy, eroticism, science fiction, love, lust, and even death.... More

SHORT STORIES BY GEORGE MEREDITH WESTMINSTER ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE CO LTD a WHITEHALL GARDENS 1902 COPYRIGHT 1898 BY GEORGE MEREDITH CONTENTS PAG8 THE TALE OF CHLOE 3 THE HOUSE ON TliE BEACH 69 FARINA 159 THE CASE OF GENERAL OPLE AND LADY CAMPER . . . 261 THE TALE OP CHLOE AN EPISODE IN THE HISTORY OF... More

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.... More