This collection of 8 stories for children and the age defying adults has been written over a period of many years now. The first story was written some 10 years back and I had no idea that one day I will bring it out as a compendium of my short stories. The feedbacks I received when I published the first ones as stand alone stories propelled me without a conscious but irresistible rudder towards this goal. I write a story without any set boundary or time when I feel like it towards the act of writing. I simply put down on paper the incessant urge I feel to weave a story. Some of these stories started with just an off-hand comment from a colleague or friend whereas others were more of an exertion of thought towards reaching a certain goal. The goal is always to produce a story that will be liked by children as well as by adults who are still young at heart. Physical age is not counted! Most of the stories that I see for children nowadays seem to me to be preachy. They seem to treat the child as a vessel of change by turning their thoughts towards behaving better or giving out some morals to shape their course of life. Its as if we adults (some only in appearance) want the child to behave or live an utopian life when such utopia exists only in our dreams. I have tried my best to refrain from such efforts and to treat kids as kids and provide them a situation, a problem and a possible solution. The teaching part is left out and the learning is for to the child to figure out. If the story puts a smile on the face of the reader, I shall feel my purpose is achieved. I strongly feel that a child should be left alone to enjoy his or her childhood. They shall soon have to grow up and conform to societal and other pressures. The pressure to live in a certain way will come with time. These stories are meant to provide them an alternative way to enjoy their time and to plot for their next adventure. The adventure called ‘Life’. Thanks to all who knowingly or surreptitiously helped with the course of these stories. Their comments and behaviours have made these stories flow, sometimes into unknown territories from which I had to struggle hard to rescue them and sometimes myself as well. I hope you like them. Illustrations for the stories have been done by Sahayaa Jeevan. Thanks a lot for your help. P. Kasturi Rangan

This book presents several chapters written by this author using the pseudonym Ole Ed. The impetus for my writing these stories was to reduce the burden that I experienced from a very hectic air travel schedule that I endured before finally retiring from the Fortune 5 corporation that I was employed by for thirty years! I became bored from picking up the same ole magazines on airplanes and reading the same ole stuff. I hope that these stories will provide you with a little bit of light, pleasurable reading during your travels to places afar that I probably no longer yearn to go to. All the stories presented in this book are based partially on my actual life experiences, hence, the title HalfaEUR"Truths . . . I have tried to word the title of each story in a way that will not give you a hint of how that story will end. Have fun, and guess your heart out!

Stewart Edward White's books were popular at a time when America was losing its vanishing wilderness. He was a keen observer of the beauties of nature and human nature, yet could render them in a plain-spoken style. I have salted in humor and sympathy for colorful characters such as canny Indian guides and "greenhorn" campers who carried too much gear. In the film The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs, the Coen brothers, there is an adaptation of the short story The Gal Who Got Rattled that is included in this book. Join us in these seven short stories chosen by the critic August Nemo and have a good reading! The Girl Who Got Rattled Billy's Tenderfoot The River-Boss The Saving Grace The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes The Girl in Red The Fifth Way

Amazing, Uncanny and Spectacular Short Stories: God Related Story And Other Stories is a collection containing various short stories, which have humour, mystery, romance, ghosts and more. Expect unexpected twists in many of the stories. Gopal goes to his kitchen at night and finds a girl there. Is she a ghost? What does she want? A man starts reading a ghost story in the middle of the forest without realizing that he is part of a ghost story. Will a boy, who has given up on romantic love, find love again? A person starts telling a story, which is supposed to have an unexpected twist in the end. What will be the unexpected twist? All this and much more is inside this amazing book, that you will never forget.

Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer. She is widely hailed as being among the most influential modernist authors of the 20th century and a pioneer of stream of consciousness narration. Woolf was a central figure in the feminist criticism movement of the 1970s, her works having inspired countless women to take up the cause. She suffered numerous nervous breakdowns during her life primarily as a result of the deaths of family members, and it is now believed that she may have suffered from bipolar disorder. In 1941, Woolf drowned herself in the River Ouse at Lewes, aged 59. This volume contains 23 exceptional short stories that will not disappoint those who have read and enjoyed other works by this seminal writer. Contents include: “The Mark on the Wall”, “Kew Gardens”, “Solid Objects”, “An Unwritten Novel”, “A Haunted House”, “Monday or Tuesday”, “The String Quartet”, “Society”, “Blue and Green”, “In the Orchard”, “Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street”, “A Woman's College from Outside”, “The New Dress”, etc. Read & Co. Classics is proudly publishing this brand new collection of classic short stories now complete with a specially-commissioned biography of the author.

This meticulously edited Joseph Conrad collection includes: Short Stories_x000D_ Point of Honor: A Military Tale_x000D_ Falk: A Reminiscence_x000D_ Amy Foster_x000D_ To-morrow_x000D_ Tales of Unrest:_x000D_ Karain, A Memory _x000D_ The Idiots_x000D_ The Outpost of Progress_x000D_ The Return_x000D_ Youth: A Narrative_x000D_ Heart of Darkness _x000D_ The End of the Tether_x000D_ 'Twixt Land and Sea:_x000D_ A Smile of Fortune_x000D_ The Secret Sharer_x000D_ Freya of the Seven Isles_x000D_ A Set of Six:_x000D_ Author's Note_x000D_ Gaspar Ruiz _x000D_ The Informer_x000D_ The Brute: The Tale of a Bloodthirsty Brig; or A Indignant Tale_x000D_ An Anarchist_x000D_ The Duel_x000D_ Il Conde_x000D_ Tales of Hearsay:_x000D_ The Warrior's Soul_x000D_ Prince Roman_x000D_ The Tale_x000D_ The Black Mate_x000D_ Within the Tides Tales:_x000D_ The Planter of Malata_x000D_ The Partner_x000D_ The Inn of the Two Witches_x000D_ Because of the Dollars_x000D_ Memoirs, Letters and Articles _x000D_ A Personal Record; or Some Reminiscences_x000D_ The Mirror of the Sea_x000D_ Notes On Life And Letters_x000D_ Autocracy And War_x000D_ The Crime Of Partition_x000D_ A Note On The Polish Problem_x000D_ Poland Revisited_x000D_ First News_x000D_ Well Done_x000D_ Tradition_x000D_ Confidence_x000D_ Flight_x000D_ Some Reflections On The Loss Of The Titanic_x000D_ Certain Aspects Of The Admirable Inquiry Into The Loss Of The Titanic_x000D_ Protection Of Ocean Liners_x000D_ A Friendly Place_x000D_ On Red Badge of Courage_x000D_ Biography & Critical Essays_x000D_ Joseph Conrad (A Biography) by Hugh Walpole_x000D_ Joseph Conrad by John Albert Macy_x000D_ A Conrad Miscellany by John Albert Macy_x000D_ Joseph Conrad & The Athenæum by Arnold Bennett_x000D_ ..._x000D_ Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties. He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature.

Jane Austen is one of the most enduring and skilled English novelists. With her wit, social perception and unerring ability to create some of literature’s most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerizes her readers as much today as she did when her novels were first published. Short Stories III is the collection of Jane Austen’s stories, they remained unpublished during her lifetime even though the last one was completed before she was 17.

This carefully edited collection of "THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (Illustrated)” has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Excerpts: "I am afraid this ghost story will bear a very faded aspect when transferred to paper. Whatever effect it had on you, or whatever charm it retains in your memory, is, perhaps, to be attributed to the favorable circumstances under which it was originally told.” (The Ghost of Doctor Harris) American novelist and short story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) published his first work, a novel titled Fanshawe, in 1828; he later tried to suppress it, feeling it was not equal to the standard of his later work. He published several short stories in various periodicals, which he collected in 1837 as Twice-Told Tales. Much of Hawthorne's writing centres on New England, many works featuring moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered to be part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, Dark romanticism. His themes often centre on the inherent evil and sin of humanity, and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological complexity. Table of Contents: Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne Collections of Short Stories: Twice-Told Tales (1837) Grandfather's Chair (1840) Biographical Stories Mosses from an Old Manse (1846) Wonder Book For Girls and Boys (1851) The Snow Image and Other Twice Told Tales (1852) Tanglewood Tales For Girls and Boys (1853) The Dolliver Romance and Other Pieces, Tales and Sketches (1864) The Story Teller Sketches in Magazines