It’s the 1930s. Fran Addicott runs a country pub with her husband, Sam, in Victoria’s Mallee region. It’s not a glamorous life: the pub is old; the town struggling; and her husband—her second, she was widowed—is not all he could be. Life is a constant uphill battle, but what can she do? What should she do?‘Fine Australian Novel’ declared The Australasian‘s reviewer, Habakkuk, on The Wind on the Water‘s original publication. ‘Miss Myra Morris is ...

Tales of Old New York: A 40-Book Collection assembles a capacious literary portrait of the city as metropolis, social theatre, immigrant crossroads, and imagined stage for ambition. Across realism, sentimental romance, adventure, detective fiction, satire, melodrama, and tales of upward mobility, the volume traces changing urban manners and class relations. Its memorable contrasts—between drawing rooms and crowded streets, inherited privilege and commercial aspiration—make New York itself ...

New York Narratives gathers a capacious archive of imagined city life, tracing Old New York through social realism, domestic fiction, romance, melodrama, crime adventure, satire, and tales of aspiration. Its range moves from the moral pressures of wealth and class to immigrant encounter, theatrical culture, commercial ambition, and the changing architecture of urban desire. Canonical visions of privilege and exclusion stand beside popular narratives of courtship, hustle, mystery, and socia...

Prepare to be entertained with a collection of laughter-inducing tales in "The Best American Humorous Short Stories," curated by H. C. Bunner and others. Dive into a world where wit, satire, and absurdity reign supreme, offering a delightful escape from the ordinary.As you journey through these uproarious stories, you'll encounter a diverse cast of characters and scenarios guaranteed to tickle your funny bone. But amidst the hilarity, a question lingers: What make...

The 'Murder Mystery - Boxed Set: 800+ Whodunit Mysteries, True Crime Stories & Action Thrillers' stands as a monumental anthology that spans a broad spectrum of the genre, encapsulating the evolution and diversity of mystery writing from the classic detective tales of the 19th century to the intricate plots of the early 20th century. This collection showcases a rich variety of literary styles and thematic undertakings, bringing together some of the genre's most compelling narratives withou...

In "George Orwell: The Complete Novels," readers are invited into the profound narratives and critical insights of one of the 20th century's most influential writers. This collection encapsulates Orwell's stylistic versatility, demonstrating his ability to blend clear prose with deep, political commentary. From the bleak dystopia of "1984" to the poignant allegory of "Animal Farm," Orwell's works resonate with themes of totalitarianism, social injustice, and the struggle for individual fre...

The Greatest Murder Mysteries Ever Written surveys the formative pleasures and formal ingenuity of detective fiction, gathering locked rooms, poisoned clues, country-house crimes, urban conspiracies, and investigations shaped by psychological suspense. Its range extends from Gothic atmosphere and sensational plotting to the brisk procedural, the gentleman-thief adventure, and the modern puzzle mystery. Foundational tales of analytic detection and influential locked-room enigmas sit beside ...

THE MURDER CASE—Ultimate Mystery Collection surveys the murder mystery from its formative nineteenth-century experiments to the polished puzzles, police investigations, sensation narratives, and thriller-inflected tales of the early twentieth century. Its varied modes encompass deductive ratiocination, locked-room enigmas, courtroom and criminal-underworld fiction, espionage, psychological suspense, and the unsettling domestic mystery. Foundational detective stories sit beside less familia...

Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists (the others being William Faulkner and John Updike) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.This book is contained 22 Works of Booth TarkingtonThe Gentleman from IndianaThe Two VanrevelsMonsieur BeaucaireCherryThe Conquest of CanaanIn the Arena, Stories of Political...

Booth Tarkington, a leading American novelist of the Interwar period, was famous for his novels ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ and ‘Alice Adams’. Although he was considered by many to be America's greatest living author in the 1910’s and 1920’s, being one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize multiple times, his works are sadly neglected today. This eBook presents Tarkington’s complete fictional works, featuring rare novels for the first time in digital publishing. As well as nume...

Flora Jane Thompson (5 December 1876 – 21 May 1947) was an English novelist and poet famous for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford.In this book:Lark RiseOver to CandlefordCandleford Green

The supernatural is an everyday occurrence for John Kendrick Bangs, who just can't avoid seeing ghosts everywhere! A witty, turn-of-the-century spoof of the gothic horror anthology, "Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others" is a satisfyingly creepy and laugh-out-loud funny collection of ghostly encounters.