A superb anthology of forty great classic humorous stories.
A Skinful of Trouble by Arthur Morrison
Bats in the Belfry by Harry Graham
Mr. Pappas by A. J. Alan
The Brazen Serpent by R. Austin Freeman
The Man who fell in Love with the Cooperative Stores by Stella Benson
The Rival Beauties by W. W. Jacobs
The Overcrowded Iceberg by Morley Roberts
A Keen Sense of Rumour by Cosmo Hamilton
More French than the French by Christine Jope-Slade
The Penance by Saki
The House of Haddock by Arthur Morrison
The Lost Sanjak by Saki
The Abandonment of Miss Plum by Dion Clayton Calthrop
The Disorder of the Bath by Arthur Morrison
The Substitute by W. W. Jacobs
The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh by Saki
The Mad Hatter by Morley Roberts
Relics of General Chassé by Anthony Trollope
The Conjuror's Revenge by Stephen Leacock
The Robe of Peace by O. Henry
Plus 20 more amusing classic tales.
"Francis Bret Harte (1839 - 1902) was an American short story writer and poet, best remembered for his short stories set against the background of the California gold rush. He himself set off at the age of fifteen to become a gold miner, and absorbed the rough atmosphere of the mining camps, which he used as a setting against which the interplay of human emotions stands out poignently.
""Miggles"" is an outstanding example of his humorously tender style which made his stories so popular. "
"Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock (1869 - 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist.
""Number Fifty-Six"" is a humorous tale of a Chinese laundryman who gets to know his clients through their laundry habits. He is able to infer much from the state of the various shirts, handkerchiefs, waistcoats etc. which are delivered to him for washing. Of all his clients he is most fascinated by number fifty-six... a man with strangely fluctuating shirt habits. And then one fateful day, a dreadful set of laundry is delivered to him..."
"Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was one of England's most successful and respected novelists.
"Relics of General Chassé"" is a humorous tale of a corpulent and somewhat dandified clergyman who, while visiting the castle at Antwerp, inadvertently becomes separated from his breeches. What follows shakes him to the core. The breeches fall into the hands of a group of female English tourists who decide to take some sample of the cloth as a souvenir. Having snipped enough of the garment to make a bag, a needlecase, a pin cushion, a pair of slippers and some leggings there are only a few seams and buttons left. The clergyman is left in a highly embarrassing position, not least because his nearest spare pair of breeches is in Brussels. What follows is pure comedy....
Intricate interior lives are brilliantly explored in these short stories, now presented in one definitive collection as Calvino intended them In Difficult Loves, Italy's master storyteller weaves tales in which cherished deceptions and illusions of love-including self-love-are swept away in magical instants of recognition. A soldier is reduced to quivering fear by the presence of a full-figured woman in his train compartment; a young clerk leaves a lady's bed at dawn; a young woman is isolated from bathers on a beach by the loss of her bikini bottom. Each of them discovers hidden truths beneath the surface of everyday life.
A classic work of Victorian literature, Great Expectations is a coming of age story by Charles Dickens. The narrator, Pip, is an orphan sent to London to become a gentlemen, courtesy of a mysterious benefactor. Rather than having all he previously desired, however, he remains fixated on his childhood playmate, Estella, the adopted daughter an eccentric wealthy woman named Miss Havisham. This timeless story of star-crossed love and moral ambiguity has captivated readers for over a hundred years, and continues to endure as a timeless tale by a master of English literature.
The Watsons is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen. She began writing it in 1803 and probably abandoned it after her father's death in January 1805. It has five chapters, and is less than 18,000 words long.
Mr. Watson is a widowed clergyman with two sons and four daughters. The youngest daughter, Emma, has been brought up by a wealthy aunt and is consequently better educated and more refined than her sisters. But when her aunt contracts a foolish second marriage, Emma is obliged to return to her father's house. There she is chagrined by the crude and reckless husband-hunting of two of her twenty-something sisters.
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Año 310 d.c. Pérgamo. El joven escriba Lisandro, tiene una habilidad especial, con la que su amo Blasius está especialmente encantado: puede transcribir exactamente cualquier discurso por largo que sea. Lisandro llega a ser escriba en la corte de Constantino y dejará constancia escrita de cómo el emperador, demuestra la falsedad de las creencias de la secta de los cristianos, pero aun así decide que pueden serle útiles en su proyecto de unificación del imperio. Año 2016 Málaga - España Un abogado, Mark y dos arqueólogos, Hector y Emy, empiezan a investigar la extrañísima muerte de Fidel sacerdote y tío de Mark y de Héctor Deverís, también arqueólogo y padre de Héctor y Emy.A medida que avanzan en su investigación, se sienten vigilados y acosados por dos grupos distintos: quienes se llaman a sí mismos los Milites Dei, o soldados de Dios y los Aúreos, que rinden culto al número phi (?) En una espiral de acción en la que entran en juego el Vaticano y la mafia, todos parecen estar buscando algo, pero... Nada es lo que parece
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights has been called the most beautiful, most profoundly violent love story of all time. This is the story of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. The story concludes by showing how this unresolved love eventually destroys both lovers and many around them.
This story is considered a classic in the English literature.
In this allegorical short story, Nathaniel Hawthorne parodies John Bunyan's famous book, The Pilgrim's Progress. Rather than take the long and arduous road to the Celestial City, Hawthorne's narrator hops on the express train to paradise. As he gets closer to his destination, however, he realizes that the clever-talking Mr. Smooth-it-away may not be who he claims. While a caricature of Bunyan's original tale, "The Celestial Railroad" ultimately drives home a similar point: there is no easy road to Heaven, so tough it out on the straight and narrow.
These 13 stories by the author of The Invisible Man "approach the elegance of Chekhov" (Washington Post) and provide "early explorations of (Ellison's) lifelong fascination with the 'complex fate' and 'beautiful absurdity' of American identity" (John Callahan). First serial to The New Yorker. NPR sponsorship.
Tom ist ein gutmütiger schwarzer Sklave, der seit vielen Jahren seinem Herrn treu dient. Die Kinder nennen ihn alle 'Onkel Tom', weil er zu ihnen immer freundlich und hilfsbereit ist. Eines Tages gerät Toms Herr in so große finanzielle Not, dass er den alten Mann verkaufen muss. Tom nimmt Abschied von seiner Frau Cloe, ohne zu wissen, ob sich beide jemals wiedersehen.
