Product Description: This third collection of vintage detective stories includes these tales:"The Mandarin's Pearl" by R. Austin Freeman, "The Blue Sequin" by R. Austin Freeman, "The Chicago Heiress" by Clifford Ashdown, "The Case of Mr. Geldard's Elopement" by Arthur Morrison, "The Case of the Ward Lane Tabernacle" by Arthur Morrison, "The Liverpool Mystery" by Baroness Orczy, "The Case of Miss Elliott" by Baroness Orczy, "The Little Old Man of Batignolles" by Émile Gaboriau, "The Secret of the Fox Hunter" by William Le Queux, "The Staircase at the Heart's Delight" by Anna Katharine Green, and “The Adventure of the Naval Treaty" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...read more

Product Description: Jack London was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea Wolf and many other wonderful stories. Children of the Frost is unique among his works in that it features the tragedies, travails and triumphs of the native Indians of the frozen Northland...read more

Machiavelli cut his political teeth during the Renaissance, a time of intense hatred between Italian city states. Machiavelli was a man of action, a devout patriot. He wrote The Prince to describe how a leader could unite Italy and put a stop to the senseless conflict. This edition includes an addenda and Machiavelli's biography of Castruccio Castracani: his archetypal prince.

Product Description: Two colonial officers extol the benefits they are bringing to an African village in the form of "quays and warehouses, and barracks - and billiard-rooms". A French republican who has fathered three idiot sons makes his peace with the Church, only to have an idiot daughter...read more

Product Description: The short stories presented in this volume include several by Guy de Maupassant: "Love's Awakening," "Useless Beauty," "In the Moonlight," and "The Horla." Also included are "The Thief" and "The Wedding" by Fyodor Dostoevsky; "The Mysterious Mansion" and "Christ in Flanders" by Honoré de Balzac; "The Bet,""The Kiss," "The Lottery Ticket," "A Work of Art," and "The Slanderer" by Anton Chekhov; "The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol; "Zodmirsky's Duel" by Alexandre Dumas; "The Shot" by Alexander Pushkin; "The Long Exile" by Leo Tolstoy; and "Captain Burle" by Emile Zola...read more

Product Description: The Lament: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian short-story writer and playwright. He is considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature and "The Lament" is one of the most memorable of his stories...read more

Product Description: The False Jewels: Guy de Maupassant is considered one of the fathers of the modern short story. His narratives are characterized by an economy of style and the efficient way in which the various threads are neatly resolved. In "The False Jewels," a man who dotes on his wife is crushed by her unexpected death and then astounded by a revelation about her costume jewelry...read more

Product Description: Selected Short Stories: Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 near Dorchester in that part of England he called Wessex. With stories sometimes from his own imagination and sometimes from local tradition, Hardy's work, like Dickens and Trollope, creates a strong sense of mood and location...read more

Product Description: "The Wedding": Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky is considered one of the greatest Russian writers. His works have had a profound and lasting effect on 20th-century literature. His psychological penetration into the human soul had, in novels like Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, a profound influence on the 20th century novel...read more

Product Description: A Horseman in the Sky: A sentry falls asleep at his post, leading to dire consequences. This is a classic tale about the terrible cost of the Civil War, which divided entire families. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge: During the American Civil War, a man stands on a railroad bridge about to be hanged...read more

Product Description: A Wagner Matinee: Willa Cather is considered to be one of the best chroniclers of pioneer life in the 20th century. She had a long and distinguished career writing essays, poems, short stories, and novels. This story is a powerful example of a frequent theme: the haunting, sometimes painful, contrast between city and country life...read more

Product Description: "The Mysterious Mansion": In this Poe-like tale, set in "an old gray house," a man exacts a bizarre revenge on his unfaithful wife and her lover. This chilling story is one of Balzac's most popular. "Walter Zimmerman excellently narrates two mysteries of Balzac that will please contemporary listeners...read more

Product Description: When Mom tells Jerry that it is time to go to bed, he does nothave to be told twice. He loves to go to bed because when he sleepshe can fly! Usually his dream flights take him over the little villagehe lives in, but a year ago his dad died, and now the dreams havetaken a different flight plan...read more