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Author | : Joyce Porter |
Publisher | : Prelude Books |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2020-06-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1788422031 |
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Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of crime fiction. Honestly, why should he even be bothered to solve the case? Collected here are eleven unforgettable short stories in the Dover series, from the 1969 story ‘Dover Pulls a Rabbit’, to ‘A Souvenir for Dover’. Editorial reviews: “Something quite out of the ordinary.” Daily Telegraph “Joyce Porter is a joy... Dover is unquestionably the most entertaining detective in fiction.” Guardian “Plotted with the technique of a virtuoso.” New York Times “Wonderfully funny.” Spectator “Dover is wildly, joyously unbelievable; and may he remain so for our comic delight.” Sun “You will be fascinated by his sheer dazzling incompetence. Porter has a keen eye, a wicked sense of comedy, and a delightfully low mind.” Harper’s
Author | : Joyce Porter |
Publisher | : Prelude Books |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2020-06-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1788422031 |
Download Dover: The Collected Short Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of crime fiction. Honestly, why should he even be bothered to solve the case? Collected here are eleven unforgettable short stories in the Dover series, from the 1969 story ‘Dover Pulls a Rabbit’, to ‘A Souvenir for Dover’. Editorial reviews: “Something quite out of the ordinary.” Daily Telegraph “Joyce Porter is a joy... Dover is unquestionably the most entertaining detective in fiction.” Guardian “Plotted with the technique of a virtuoso.” New York Times “Wonderfully funny.” Spectator “Dover is wildly, joyously unbelievable; and may he remain so for our comic delight.” Sun “You will be fascinated by his sheer dazzling incompetence. Porter has a keen eye, a wicked sense of comedy, and a delightfully low mind.” Harper’s
Author | : Paul Negri |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2012-09-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486114171 |
Download Great English Short Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
DIVFirst-rate selections include Hardy's "The Fiddler of the Reels," James' "Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad," Dickens' "The Haunted Hotel," and tales by Saki, Kipling, Lawrence, Trollope, Stevenson, and others. /div
Author | : Guy de Maupassant |
Publisher | : Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1992-02-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780486270647 |
Download The Necklace and Other Short Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The French author Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a master of the short story, creating detailed character studies and brief but moving dramas well suited to the genre. The nine stories in this collection provide a vivid portrait gallery of his typical subjects — from simple peasants and prostitutes to soldiers, government clerks, and provincial bourgeois. Brilliantly naturalistic, these short works also reveal Maupassant's ability to observe the innumerable details of everyday life and reproduce them artfully and accurately, often with a caustic sense of humor. His literary talents are amply displayed in this volume, which includes these memorable tales: "Ball-of-Fat," regarded by many as technically one of the finest short stories ever written, "The Necklace," "A Piece of String," "Mme. Tellier's Establishment," "Mademoiselle Fifi," "Miss Harriet," "A Way to Wealth," "My Uncle Jules," and "The Horla."
Author | : James Daley |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2012-03-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486114791 |
Download The World's Greatest Short Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Ranging from the 19th to the 20th centuries, this wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable anthology includes Tolstoy, Kipling, Chekhov, Joyce, Kafka, Pirandello, Mann, Updike, Borges, and other major writers of world literature.
Author | : Louisa May Alcott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Hospitals |
ISBN | : |
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A collection of five poignant stories written by Louisa May Alcott, drawn from her personal experiences at the military hospital in Georgetown during the Civil War.
Author | : Oscar Wilde |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2012-04-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486121860 |
Download The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Complete texts of "The Happy Prince and Other Tales," "A House of Pomegranates," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories," "Poems in Prose," and "The Portrait of Mr. W. H."
Author | : Larry R. Liberty |
Publisher | : Page Publishing Inc |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2015-05-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1634177975 |
Download In A Twisted Mind A Collection of Short Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A farm family in northern New Jersey is constantly shaken by a new airport. Supernatural activity, noise, and fear forces the family to relocate their farm to rural Northeastern Pennsylvania. An ironic and twisted ending. People in northern Montana are disappearing, especially when those lights appear in the "Big Sky." An investigative reporter discovers it's happening in every state. He then discovers a government conspiracy and a secret ancient society. The rest is yummy, but not for him. An archeologist in Tibet discovers a new species of terrestrial worm averaging 20 feet in length and 2 feet in diameter. He collects some eggs and returns to his home on the Palisades in Alpine New Jersey. He buries the eggs along the Palisades and is soon overrun with these giant worms, so he harvests them for a fishermen's bait and becomes very wealthy with a chain of bait stores. Later his worms are found to be very intelligent and have an agenda. In a humorous twist, the worm meat is found to cure insanity and Washington D.C. has an epiphany. What's with the cartons of Pall Mall cigarettes piled high? The children in ancient Egypt are stricken with a flue like virus. The following generations of boys started wearing skirts and have no interest in girls. Soon the great dynasty went into decline as the population decreased. Other empires suffered the same fate until modern science explained the reason, and embraced the virus for population control. A humorous and outrageous take on homosexuality. A glitch in software at a dictionary publisher turns out a prototype copy with half the words given the wrong definitions. The one defective copy is accidentally placed in a child's backpack. While on vacation in the South Pacific the editor and his young sons are marooned on an uncharted island when their high speed boat crashes into a rocky beach. The editor suffers a head injury and his young sons must fend for themselves. The only source of education is the defective dictionary in the child's backpack. They are rescued after 10 years and return to the United States, the boys are teens, and dad lost most of his marbles. They become wards of their uncle, and when they enter society, their scrambled words make for a hilarious chain of events. Unending, with a twist.
Author | : James Daley |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 766 |
Release | : 2015-03-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486790215 |
Download 100 Great Short Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"This treasury of 100 tales offers a volume of remarkable value to students and readers of short fiction. Selections by masters of the form from all over world include Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Nikolai Gogol, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, Anton Chekhov, Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Saki, and Henry James"--
Author | : Theodore Dreiser |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2012-07-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486158071 |
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Five powerful stories: "Free," the story of a man trying, as his wife lies dying, to understand why he never found happiness in marriage plus "The Second Choice," "Married," "Nigger Jeff," and "The Lost Phœbe."