This delicious variety of outstanding stories ranges over two centuries, from Romanticism to Modernism. It includes George Eliot's Gothic tale "The Lifted Veil"; "The Mortal Immortal," a supernatural fable by Frankenstein creator Mary Shelley; plus scintillating stories by Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Rosa Mulholland, Elizabeth Bowen, Ella D'Arcy, and others.
The World's Greatest Short Stories by James Daley Ranging from the 19th to the 20th centuries, this wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable anthology includes Poe, Chekhov, Joyce, Kafka, Faulkner, Pirandello, Mann, and other major writers of world literature.
Great Short Short Stories: Quick Reads by Great Writers by Paul Negri This outstanding collection of more than 30 brilliant short stories — each just six or fewer pages in length — features popular tales by Kafka, Poe, Dickens, O. Henry, Chekhov, Wilde, and many others.
Great Speeches by American Women by James Daley Here are 21 legendary speeches from the country's most inspirational female voices, including Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and many others.
Silas Marner by George Eliot Classic of English literature recounts the engrossing story of a lonely and embittered old man and the orphaned child who helps him find love and hope.
Great Short Stories by American Women by Candace Ward Choice collection of 13 stories includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," plus superb fiction by Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, many others.
