These stories are diverse and span a century of great change in Russian history. Readers will note a consistency of theme throughout the volume, as most of the stories deal somehow with the plight of the lowly citizen battling with the great governmental, industrial, and social systems of Russian society. But stylistically, the stories are vastly different, ranging from the realistic to the expressionistic and surreal. Tonally, the stories convey everything from tragic pathos to satire.

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International Short Stories is an anthology of works by French writers. It contains Abandoned by Guy de Maupassant, Solange by Alexandre Dumas, and A Fight with a Cannon by Victor Hugo, and many other stories by Coppee, Bourget, Zola, Voltaire, Balzac, and others.

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The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories" is a collection of short-stories by various authors, brimming with suspense and intrigue. With minor super-natural elements and mind-boggling situations, the work monopolizes the readers' attention from the outset. Complex plots and intricate characters of these thrillers are exhilarating and riveting.

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Richard Deming (1915-1983) wrote prolifically for magazines (more than 200 short stories) as well as for major book publishers (more than two dozen novels, ranging from original crime novels to media tie-ins (Dragnet and The Mod Squad) to even a pseudonymous nautical series involving submarines. He was a meticulous professional who never disappointed readers.Included here are 15 of his best crime tales, including:THE ART OF DEDUCTIONTHE CLOCK IS CUCKOOSAY IT W...

British Mysteries Collection: The Complete 7 Novels & Detective Story gathers Ethel Lina White's major contributions to interwar crime fiction, where country villages, boarding houses, railway carriages, and seemingly respectable households become theatres of dread. Her prose is brisk, atmospheric, and psychologically acute, combining the puzzle elements of the Golden Age with a darker "woman-in-peril" suspense tradition. Across these novels, ordinary routines are destabilized by disappear...

The acclaimed author "assembles a stellar collection of twenty stories that create their own worlds in twenty pages or less" ( USA Today ).Tom Perrotta explains in his introduction that "all of [these stories] took me somewhere I didn't expect to go, and jolted me into that state of heightened awareness and emotional receptivity that's one of the great rewards of reading good fiction."In Nathan Englander s What We ...