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Lois, a young girl, is anxious to meet her lover but makes an unexpected stop at her brother Keith's house, who is studying to become a Catholic priest. After not seeing him for ma ...

This short story follows the loveable character of George O'Kelly, an aspiring engineer who sells insurance to pay the bills.George falls in love with the mysterious Jonquill Cary. ...

Jim Powell is a jelly-bean; a lazy, idle man, who is content to drift through life. However, when his friend, Clark, invites him to a shindig where Nancy Lamar is going to be, ther ...

At the tender age of 17, half-Russian, half-American Val has a brief romance with a married woman from the United States. However, this fleeting encounter is about to change his li ...

Kazan is three quarters husky and one quarter wolf, and struggles with these two sides of his personality. A part of him wants to stay with people, while the other wants to run fre ...

An unusual novel in Wallace’s collection, it is not told linearly but instead it is an adventure novel told in the form of witness statements to a journalist. It follows Captain Ta ...

In ‘Angel Esquire’ an eccentric casino owner on his death bed, proclaims that whoever can complete a complex cipher of his own design will be the sole inheritor of his vast fortune ...

Set during the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685, ‘Micah Clarke’ is an historical adventure story by the famous Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The son of a dedicated Prote ...

'The Day of His Youth' is the story of Francis Hume who battles between his own personal guilt and his desire to seize the day, after his mother died during childbirth. Alice Brown ...

Homecoming hero Jeffrey Blake returns after a stint in prison and tries to embed himself back into his former life. Blake hopes to reconcile with his wife and find his place back i ...

‘The Wizard's Touch’ (1906) is a short story by American playwright and novelist, Alice Brown.Jerome Wilmer is an artist who returned from his travels to find Mary, the girl he lov ...

The fictional town of Tiverton is the centre of these short stories by Alice Brown. Tiverton is based in New England, like many of Brown's other works, and is home to traditional, ...

‘The Gods Are Athirst’ (1912) is Nobel laureate Anatole France’s captivating fictional reimagining of the bloody events of the French Revolution. Gamelin, a young idealistic painte ...

Family Christmas gatherings are always very... interesting.A wedding, sports on ice, Sexton stealing Goblins, merry voices carolling and jolly faces. The Pickwickians' Christmas tr ...

The very wealthy are different from the rest of us, and so is Anson. From a young age, he learned to speak in an almost British way; his words and sentences are crisp and clear. Th ...

‘Tappan’s Burro, and Other Stories’ (1923) is a collection of classic western tales from the master of the genre, American author Zane Grey, best known for his romanticized stories ...

Between 1904 and 1918, Wallace collected tales about life in the British Army and the escapades and adventures of the troops. These led him to create the eponymous character, ‘Smit ...

Laying the foundations for the likes of ‘Silence of the Lambs,’ starring Anthony Hopkins, ‘The Murder Book of J.G. Reeder’ follows an investigator with the mind of a criminal. From ...

Between 1904 and 1918, Wallace collected tales about life in the British Army and the escapades and adventures of the troops. These led him to create the eponymous character, ‘Smit ...

Between 1904 and 1918, Wallace collected tales about life in the British Army and the escapades and adventures of the troops. These led him to create the eponymous character, ‘Smit ...

Commissioner Sanders is back again! However, this adventure sees him set against the backdrop of London rather than Africa. When a bunch of small-time crooks decide to try and stea ...

An epidemic has hit West Africa, but Commissioner Sanders hears stories of a woman, M’lama, who can reportedly heal the sick and even raise the dead.As he investigates the claims, ...

Written as a journal, ‘In the Mountains’ tells the story of an English woman who after WWI decides to escape her personal troubles in London and seeks refuge at her chalet in the S ...

In 1901, the author – the real Elizabeth – went on a trip to the Baltic island of Rügen with her maid, a chauffeur, a friend, and a carriage piled high with their luggage. From thi ...

Orphan Anna’s life is changed for the better when she inherits an estate from her maternal uncle. Kind and intelligent, Anna decides to pass on some of her wealth by setting up a h ...