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In 1950, experts at Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine voted on the best detective stories ever written, and the result was this dazzling dozen. Two of the choices—Edgar Allan Poe's «The Purloined Letter» and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's «The Red-Headed League»—were regarded by their authors as their finest short stories. The remaining tales offer similarly high levels of excitement and mystery. Featured stories include G. K. Chesterton's «The Invisible Man,» from The Innocence of Father Brown; «Suspicion» by Dorothy L. Sayers; Aldous Huxley's «The Gioconda Smile»; and «The Hands of Mr. Ottermole» by Thomas Burke. Additional tales include «The Avenging Chance» by Anthony Berkeley; «The Absent-Minded Coterie» by Robert Barr; Jacques Futrelle's «The Problem of Cell 13»; Melville D. Post's «Naboth’s Vineyard»; «The Yellow Slugs» by H. C. Bailey; and E. C. Bentley's «The Genuine Tabard.»
A Bottomless Grave
Preoccupied with death, and repressed in many areas of their lives, Victorians seem to have found an emotional outlet in ghost stories, eerie tales, and a fascination with the macabre. Writers of the era fed this appetite with a continuing feast of stories steeped in terror and the supernatural. This unique collection gathers together 21 of these Victorian-era spine-tinglers, but unlike most anthologies, which feature the same tired tales, this volume contains 21 outstanding, but neglected stories from that time period. The product of painstaking research in libraries, antique bookshops, and other out-of-the-way archives, these rare gems include the title story, a black comedy by Ambrose Bierce; «The Ship that Saw a Ghost,» a tale of seafaring mystery by Frank Norris; «The Tomb,» Guy de Maupassant's grotesque account of one man's incurable longing for his deceased lover; Richard Marsh's unsettling tale of «The Haunted Chair,» and 17 more. Compelling tales by such lesser-known writers as Dorothea Gerard, J. Keighley Snowden, Robert Barr, and Georgina C. Clark round out this collection of carefully chosen, hard-to-find narratives, sure to delight the most discerning reader of Victorian tales of terror and the supernatural.
Aladdin and Other Favorite Arabian Nights Stories
The group of stories known as The Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights is believed to have originated in the East during the early Middle Ages. The tales first appeared in a Western translation in France in 1704. This selection of favorite Arabian Nights stories, with new illustrations by Thea Kliros, features a multitude of colorful characters — devious magicians, monstrous giants, lovely princesses, and steadfast suitors — caught up in exciting adventures that take them to faraway lands.The six classics included here are «Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp,» «Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,» «Abou Hassan, or, The Sleeper Awakened,» «The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor,» «Camaralzaman and Badoura,» and «The Enchanted Horse.» With this book as their guide, children can journey to the enchanted world of the Arabian Nights and enjoy the same time-honored tales that have enthralled readers and listeners for centuries.
Best Remembered Poems
The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th and 20th century British and American verse range from the impassioned «Renascence» of Edna St. Vincent Millay to Edward Lear's whimsical «The Owl and the Pussycat» and James Whitcomb Riley’s homespun «When the Frost Is on the Punkin.» Famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman, and Frost are well-represented, as are less well-known poets such as John McCrae («In Flanders Fields») and Ernest Thayer («Casey at the Bat»). Includes 10 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: «The Owl and the Pussycat,» «Casey at the Bat,» «Jabberwocky,» «O Captain! My Captain!,» «Paul Revere's Ride,» «Ozymandias,» «The Raven,» «Because I Could Not Stop for Death,» «Mending Wall,» and «Ode on a Grecian Urn.»
100 Favorite English and Irish Poems
This compact anthology contains many of the best works of 59 poets writing in English—from the complex rhyme schemes of Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser and lovely sonnets of the preeminent English poet and playwright William Shakespeare to William Blake's visionary works and John Keats' profound insights into the nature of beauty, art, and mortality.Here also are beloved poems by Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Burns, William Butler Yeats, Rupert Brooke, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and 43 other great English, Irish, and Scottish writers. In addition to a concise introduction, this volume provides brief commentaries on the poets represented. The result is a carefully selected anthology that will be studied and treasured by students and poetry lovers alike.
100 Best-Loved Poems
Here are some of the most-loved poems in the English language, chosen not merely for their popularity, but for their literary quality as well. Dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these splendid poems remain evergreen in their capacity to engage our minds and refresh our spirits. Among them are Marlowe: «The Passionate Shepherd to His Love»; Shakespeare: «Sonnet XVIII» («Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?»); Donne: «Holy Sonnet X» («Death, be not proud»); Marvell: «To His Coy Mistress»; Wordsworth: «I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud»; Shelley: «Ode to the West Wind»; Longfellow: «The Children's Hour»; Poe: «The Raven»; Tennyson: «The Charge of the Light Brigade»; Whitman: «O Captain! My Captain!»; Dickinson: «This Is My Letter to the World»; Yeats: «When You Are Old»; Frost: «The Road Not Taken»; Millay: «First Fig.»Works by many other poets — Milton, Blake, Burns, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Emerson, the Brownings, Hardy, Housman, Kipling, Pound, and Auden among them — are included in this treasury, a perfect companion for quiet moments of reflection.
Beowulf
One of the most universally studied of the English classics, Beowulf is considered the finest heroic poem in Old English. Written ten centuries ago, it celebrates the character and exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of the Geats, a people of southern Sweden.Beowulf first rescues the royal house of Denmark from two marauding monsters, then returns to rule his people for 50 years, ultimately losing life in a battle to defend the Geats from a dragon's rampage. The poem combines mythical elements, Christian and pagan sensibilities, and actual historical figures and events in a narrative that ranges from vivid descriptions of fierce fighting and detailed portrayals of court life to earnest considerations of social and moral dilemmas. Originally written in Old English verse, it is presented here in an authoritative prose translation by R. K. Gordon.
101 Great American Poems
Focusing on popular verse from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this treasury of great American poems offers a taste of the nation's rich poetic legacy. Selected for both popularity and literary quality, the compilation includes Robert Frost's «Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,» Walt Whitman's «I Hear America Singing,» and Ralph Waldo Emerson's «Concord Hymn,» as well as poems by Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and many other notables. Chosen by the non-profit organization American Poetry & Literacy Project, these much-loved verses include 13 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: «Casey at the Bat,» «Fog,» «The New Colossus,» «Chicago,» «I, Too, Sing America,» «O Captain! My Captain!,» «Paul Revere's Ride,» «The Road Not Taken,» «The Raven,» «Because I Could Not Stop for Death,» «Mending Wall,» «The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,» and «The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter.»
African Folk Tales
This exciting collection of traditional African folk tales introduces you to a host of interesting people and unusual animals. Eighteen authentic fables, recorded as they were told by tribal members of Nigerian and other cultures, range from the imaginative «Story of a Farmer and Four Hyenas» to an entertaining account of «The Man with Seven Dogs.»In «The Magic Crocodile,» you'll meet a reptile with very strange powers, while «The Boy in the Drum» teaches a valuable lesson in the importance of obeying one's parents. In «The Hare and the Crownbird,» a fine, feathered friend is rewarded for its acts of kindness. You'll also learn why a ram has a large head and a tortoise a small one in «The Greedy but Cunning Tortoise»; and in «A She-Goat and Her Children,» you'll discover how a clever animal managed to provide food for her children.Set in large, easy-to-read type and enhanced with Yuko Green's 19 lively illustrations, this collection of time-honored folk tales will delight readers of all ages.
Bengal Lights
A special edition of Bengal Lights, Bangladesh's leading English language literary journal, guest-edited by the editors of the Unnamed Press and Phoneme Media. A liberal exploration of the concept of “the guest” featuring Etgar Keret, Mario Bellatin, Sesshu Foster, Ben Ehrenreich, Stacy Hardy, Douglas Kearney, Amjad Nasser, Rita Indiana, Pavel Šrut, Inongo-vi-Makomè, Angie Cruz, Antonella Anedda, Sharbari Z. Ahmed, Paul Holzman, Carly J. Hallman, Ramón Esono Ebalé, Prisionero Gringo, Khademul Islam, Mandy Kahn, Nylsa Martínez, Anthony Seidman, Nazir Hossain, Malka Older, Sudipta Chakma Mikado, Katia Kapovich, Zvonko Karanovic, Edwin Smet, J.C. Reyes, and Ikhtisad Ahmed.