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By: Allen Upward (1863-1926) | |
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The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War | |
Athelstane Ford |
By: Alleyne Ireland | |
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An Adventure with a Genius | |
By: Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) | |
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Tartarin of Tarascon
It tells the burlesque adventures of Tartarin, a local hero of Tarascon, a small town in southern France, whose invented adventures and reputation as a swashbuckler finally force him to travel to a very prosaic Algiers in search of lions. Instead of finding a romantic, mysterious Oriental fantasy land, he finds a sordid world suspended between Europe and the Middle East. And worst of all, there are no lions left. | |
The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 | |
Artists' Wives | |
The Nabob | |
Tartarin De Tarascon | |
Jack 1877 | |
Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant | |
The Nabob, Volume 1 | |
Tartarin On The Alps | |
Fromont and Risler | |
The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) |
By: Alvin Addison | |
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Ellen Walton Or, The Villain and His Victims | |
Eveline Mandeville Or, The Horse Thief Rival |
By: Amanda Minnie Douglas (1831-1916) | |
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Floyd Grandon's Honor | |
A Modern Cinderella | |
Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart |
By: Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) | |
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The Devil's Dictionary
RESPECTABILITY, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account. BEAUTY, n. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. LITIGANT, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. If these caustic definitions catch your fancy, you'd enjoy The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce. He was a columnist with the San Francisco News Letter, a weekly paper which was a business publication aimed at the corporate sector. However, it had a column entitled Town Crier which featured satirical asides and comments in a lighter vein... | |
Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour. Nothing is known of his death, as he went missing while an observer with Pancho Villa’s army in 1913/14. (Summaries by Peter Yearsley)The Ways of Ghosts: Stories of encounters with the ghosts of the dead and dying. The spirits of the dead reach out to the living, to pass on a message or to pursue a killer... | |
The Parenticide Club
Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914?), best known as journalist, satirist and short story writer. Cynical in outlook, economical in style; Bierce vanished while an observer with Pancho Villa’s army. Four grotesque short stories about murder within the family, seen through the gently innocent eyes of family members … usually the murderer himself.My favorite murder (00:23)Oil of Dog (20:13)An Imperfect Conflagration (29:32)The Hypnotist (37:14) | |
Can Such Things Be?
24 short stories in fairly typical Bierce fashion - ghostly, spooky, to be read (or listened to) in the dark, perhaps with a light crackling fire burning dimly in the background. Stories of ghosts, apparitions, and strange, inexplicable occurrences are prevalent in these tales, some of which occur on or near Civil War fields of battle, some in country cottages, and some within urban areas. Can Such Things Be? implies and relates that anything is possible, at any time. | |
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | |
In the Midst of Life; Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
These stories detail the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. This is the 1909 edition. The 1909 edition omits six stories from the original 1891 edition; these six stories are added to this recording (from an undated English edition). The 1891 edition is entitled In The Midst Of Life; Tales Of Soldiers And Civilians. The Wikipedia entry for the book uses the title Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – after December 26, 1913) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist and satirist... | |
The Damned Thing 1898, From "In the Midst of Life" | |
Fantastic Fables | |
The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 |
By: Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831-1919) | |
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Remember the Alamo | |
The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York | |
The Measure of a Man | |
The Man Between, an International Romance |