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The Most Dangerous Game (Creative Short Stories)

The Most Dangerous Game (Creative Short Stories)

by Richard Edward Connell

The Most Dangerous Game is the popular short story originally published in 1924 which was written by Richard Connell. This is the story of a big game hunter who is trapped on an island with a fellow hunter, who is uninterested in hunting stereotypical prey, and instead decides that the only prey worthy of his skills is other humans. This title is often required reading in middle schools, and has been since adapted... (more)

The Phantom of the Opera

by Gaston Leroux

The novel that inspired the Lon Chaney film and the hit musical. "The wildest and most fantastic of tales ."--New York Times Book Review .

Cabbages and Kings

by O.Henry

O Henry is best noted for his wit, characterization and twist endings. Cabbages and Kings was a collection of stories set in a Central American town. The detailing of this town is a literary masterpiece. Each story is loosely connected to the other stories in this collection. Although this is a lesser-known work of O Henry, it contains some of his best writing.

Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A timeless, terrifying tale of one man's obsession to create life -- and the monster that became his legacy. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: • A concise introduction that gives readers important background information • A chronology of the author's life and work • A timeline of significant events that provides the book's... (more)

"The Mysterious Affair at Styles"

by Agatha Christie

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by Agatha Christie. It is Christie's first published novel, and introduces Hercule Poirot, Chief Inspector Japp and Captain Hastings. The story is told in first person by Hastings, and features many of the elements that, thanks to Christie, have become icons of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. It is set in a large, isolated country manor; there are a... (more)

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for... (more)

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

There, in the middle of the broad bright high-road -- there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven -- stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments, her face bent in grave inquiry on mine, her hand pointing to the dark cloud over London, as I faced her. I was far too seriously startled by the suddenness with which this extraordinary... (more)

Whose body?

by Dorothy L. Sayers

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This classic story by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the tale of a man born into old age who gets younger as time goes on. Originally published in Colliers Magazine, it has been adapted for the 2008 movie of the same name, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.

Anthem

by Ayn Rand

Available for the first time in trade paperback--this provocative book is "an anthem sung in praise of man's ego"--from the legendary author Ayn Rand Anthem has long been hailed as one of Ayn Rand's classic novels, and a clear predecessor to her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged . In Anthem , Rand examines a frightening future in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no... (more)

Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton

Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenie’s vivacious cousin enters their household as a "hired girl," Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. In one of American fiction’s finest and most intense narratives, Edith... (more)

The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

This volume presents the text of the New York Edition of James’s classic 1898 short novel along with critical essays that read The Turn of the Screw from contemporary reader-response, psychoanalytic, gender, and Marxist perspectives. An additional essay demonstrates how several critical perspectives can be combined. As in the first edition, the text and essays are complemented by biographical and critical... (more)

The Horse Dealer's DaughterD. H. Lawrence

The Horse Dealer's Daughter

by D. H. Lawrence

MY MAN JEEVESP. G. WODEHOUSE

MY MAN JEEVES

by P. G. WODEHOUSE

The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition

by William Strunk

The hardcover version of the most indispensable writing resource! Features a new Glossary of grammatical terms Includes a new Foreword by Roger Angell Retains the classic principles of English style You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style , the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. The revisions to... (more)

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The familiar characters of Hawthorne's dark tale of pride and guilt in colonial New England are given new and added immediacy in the 24 wood engravings by master illustrator Barry Moser.

Anne Of Green Gables: Book 1

Anne of Green Gables

by L. M. Montgomery

Anne Shirley was a special girl with an enormous imagination, an orphan girl who dreamed of the day when she could call herself Anne of Green Gables.

The Secret Adversary (Agatha Christie Mysteries Collection (Paperback))

The Secret Adversary (Agatha Christie Mysteries Collection (Paperback))

by Agatha Christie

It is just after WWI and Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley are desperately short of money. With jobs thin on the ground, Tommy and Tuppence decide to form a partnership and hire themselves out as "young adventurers, willing to do anything, go anywhere." When their first assignment, for the sinister Mr Whittington, puts both of them in mortal danger, they have to use all their ingenuity and cunning to save not... (more)

The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

The story that launched Wells's successful career-the classic tale of the Time Traveler and the extraordinary world he discovers in the far distant future. A haunting portrayal of Darwin's evolutionary theory carried to a terrible conclusion.

The Ambassadors

by Henry James

Concerned that her son Chad may have become involved with a woman of dubious reputation, the formidable Mrs. Newsome sends her 'ambassador' Strether from Massachusetts to Paris to extricate him. Strether's mission, however, is gradually undermined as he falls under the spell of the city and finds Chad refined rather than corrupted by its influence and that of his charming companion, the comtesse de Vionnet. As the... (more)

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by Richard Edward Connell

by Gaston Leroux

by O.Henry

by Mary Shelley

by Agatha Christie

by Charles Dickens

by Wilkie Collins

by Dorothy L. Sayers

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

by Ayn Rand

by Edith Wharton

by Henry James

by D. H. Lawrence

by P. G. WODEHOUSE

by William Strunk

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by L. M. Montgomery

by Agatha Christie

by H. G. Wells

by Henry James