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The World's Greatest Short Stories

Prime examples of the classic short story, these enduring literary treasures will be invaluable to students and teachers as well as to anyone who appreciates the finely turned tale.

Joseph Conrad: Heart Of Darkness

Dark allegory of a journey up the Congo River and the narrator's encounter with the mysterious Mr. Kurtz. Masterly blend of adventure, character study, psychological penetration. For many, Conrad's finest, most enigmatic story. (0486264645)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment

Supreme masterpiece tells the story of Raskolnikov, a student tormented by his own thoughts after he murders an old woman. Overwhelmed by guilt and terror, he confesses and goes to prison. (0486415872)

Kate Chopin: The Awakening

First published in 1899, this controversial novel of a New Orleans wife's search for love outside a stifling marriage shocked readers. Today, it remains a first-rate narrative with superb characterization. (0486277860)

Great American Short Stories

Features 19 gems in the American short-story tradition, including "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, plus stories by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Hawthorne, Twain, others. (0486421198)

Gothic/Horror

• Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The story of Victor Frankenstein's monstrous creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. (0486282112)
• Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde This intriguing novel, both fantasy thriller and moral allegory, depicts the struggle of two opposing personalities — one essentially good, the other evil — for the soul of one man. (0486266885)
• Bram Stoker: Dracula A horror romance as deathless as any vampire, this blood-curdling tale carries readers from mystery-shrouded Transylvania to 19th-century London in the frantic hunt for the blood-sucking Count Dracula. (0486411095)
• Oscar Wilde: The Picture Of Dorian Gray Celebrated novel involves a handsome young Londoner who sinks into a life of depravity. His body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recent portrait reflects the ravages of his crime and sensuality.(0486278077)

Romance

• Jane Austen: Pride & Prejudice One of the most universally loved and admired English novels, an effervescent tale of rural romance transformed by Jane Austen's art into a witty, shrewdly observed satire of English country life. (0486284735)
• Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights Somber tale of consuming passions and vengeance — played out amid the lonely English moors — recounts the turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff. Poignant and compelling. (0486292568)
• Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre Jane Eyre tells the tale of an orphan girl's progress from the custody of cruel relatives to an oppressive boarding school and its culmination in a troubled career as a governess. (0486424499)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter With stark power and emotional depth, Hawthorne's masterpiece explores sin, guilt, and redemption in a story of adultery in the early days of the Massachusetts Colony. (0486280489)

Adventure

• Mark Twain: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Join Huck and Jim as their boyhood adventures along the Mississippi River lead them into a world of excitement, danger, and self-discovery. Humorous narrative, lyrical descriptions of the Mississippi valley, and memorable characters. (0486280616)
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• Jack London: The Call Of The Wild A>
• Herman Melville: MobyDick This thrilling maritime adventure and epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and vengeful sea captain, against the great white whale that came to dominate his life. (0486432157)

Fantasy

• Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Beloved>
• Edwin A. Abbott: Flatland Classic of science (and mathematical) fiction describes the adventures of A. Square, a resident of Flatland, in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension), and Pointland (no dimensions). (048627263X)
• Jules Verne: Journey To The Center Of The Earth A geology professor mounts an expedition into a subterranean world — a living past that holds the secrets to the origins of human existence. (0486440885)
• H.G. Wells: The Island Of Dr. Moreau Mad surgeon-turned-vivisectionist performs ghoulish experiments that transform animals into men. Early Wells personification of the scientific quest to control the natural world and, ultimately, human nature. (0486290271)

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