Short Stories of O. Henry William Sydney Porter (1862–1910), better known as O. Henry, led a life similar to those of his own fictional characters. Convicted of embezzlement, he found inspiration in his prison experience for some of the characters who populate his ironic tales. The 16 choice selections in this volume — among them "The Ransom of Red Chief," "The Last Leaf," "The Voice of the City," and the classic, "The Gift of the Magi" — have endeared him to generations of readers. Large ...

A young lady named Violet Hunter visited Hopkins and Holmes. She said that she got a job offer from a man called Jephro Rucastle. He wanted that she teachs his child but he also wanted that she wears some dress that his wife will give and cut her hair short. First she didn’t agree, but she needed money. She asked Holmes if this offer is acceptable. Holmes adviced her to try it.Her first days at the Copper Beeches were nice. Mrs Rucastle was a sad women and often cried. Mr Rucastle h...

The Judges House LigeiaA Cambridge student rents a long-vacant home in order to study without distractions. Preparing for exams has never been so dangerous: Each night, an enormous rat materializes in a chair by the fireplace.The Judge’s HouseThe story follows an unnamed narrator and his wife Ligeia, a beautiful and intelligant raven-haired woman. She recites ’The Conqueror Worm’ before she dies and suggests that life is sustainable only through willpower.Ligei...

William Sydney Porter (1862–1910), better known as O. Henry, led a life similar to those of his own fictional characters. Convicted of embezzlement, he found inspiration in his prison experience for some of the characters who populate his ironic tales. The 16 choice selections in this volume — among them "The Ransom of Red Chief," "The Last Leaf," "The Voice of the City," and the classic, "The Gift of the Magi" — have endeared him to generations of readers. Large print edition.Page...

A Simple SoulFor half a century the housewives of Pont-l’Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite.For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the horse, fattened the poultry, made the butter and remained faitful to her mistress - although the latter was by no means an agreeable person.

There Short Stories Of Edgar Allan Poe’’ The Black Cat ’’ is a story of’orthodox2 witchcraft; the sudden appearance of the second cat from nowhere, the slow growth of the white marking, and the murder of the wife after the animal brushed against the protagonist on the stairs are touches of the supernatural.’’ The Cask of Amontillado ’’ is set in a nameless European sity in an unspecified uear (possibly sometime during the eighteenth century) and concerns the deadly regenge t...

Sherlock Holmes, the world’s “only unofficial consulting detective”, was first introduced to readers in A Study in Scarlet published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887.It was with the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, however, that themastersleuth grew tremendously in popularity, later to become one of the most beloved literary characters of all time.In this book series, the short stories comprising The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes have been amusinglyillustrated using only ...

Sherlock Holmes, the world's "only unofficial consulting detective", was first introduced to readers in A Study in Scarlet published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. It was with the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, however, that the master sleuth grew tremendously in popularity, later to become one of the most beloved literary characters of all time.In this book series, the short stories comprising The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes have been amusingly illustrated using o...

Sherlock Holmes, the world's 'only unofficial consulting detective', was first introduced to readers in A Study in Scarlet published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. It was with the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, however, that the master sleuth grew tremendously in popularity, later to become one of the most beloved literary characters of all time. In this book series, the short stories comprising The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes have been amusingly illustrated using ...

DON'T WALK ALONE, OR THE STITCHER WILL FIND YOU.Abby Ward lives in a town haunted by disappearances. People vanish, and when they're found, their bodies have been dismembered and sewn back together in unnatural ways. But is it the work of a human killer…or something far darker?DON'T STAY OUT LATE, OR THE STITCHER WILL TAKE YOU.She and her younger sister live by a strict set of rules designed to keep them safe―which is why it's such a shock when Hop...

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