The Collected stories of the world's greatest writers

From the back cover: Each of the novels is a special achievement, different in its own fashion from any other novels written at the time, or since-The Woman of Andros is a Greek pastoral as beautifully handled as the figures on a Greek vase. It contrasts with The Bridge of San Luis Rey, which is a fable (perhaps more Buddhist than Christian in its feeling), as much as with The Cabala, which is an album of boldly depicted characters. All three novels, different as they are from one another, have something in common besides their economy of statement and their felicity of style. Perhaps it is the quality that was praised by Henry James in his little book on Hawthorne. There he said, speaking of The Scarlet Letter, 'It has about it that charm, very hard to express, which we find in an artist's work the first time he has touched his highest mark-a sort of straightness and naturalness of execution, and unconsciousness of his public, and freshness of interest in his theme.' These books have that quality too, and they ask to be reread."

The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County -- The one million pound bank note -- Edward Mills and George Benton : a tale -- The stolen white elephant -- Cannibalism in the cars -- The man who put up at Gadsby's -- The story of the good little boy -- The story of the bad little boy -- Baker's blue jay yam : what stumped the blue jays -- A double barreled detective story.

Love among the haystacks.--The ladybird.--The fox.--The captain's doll.

A collection of stories about Hammett's famous detective.

Includes the title story plus: The Birds ~ The Little Photographer ~ Monte Verita ~ The Apple Tree ~ The Old Man ~ The Split Second ~ No Motive.

Contains: - Animal Farm - [Nineteen Eighty-Four](

Contains: Cannery Row [Of Mice and Men]( Tortilla Flat

A collection of his short stories in which Borges often uses the labyrinth as a literary device to expound his ideas on all aspects of human life and endeavor.

"This collection of Willa Cather stories - her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career - is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society. The passions, ambitions, and pretensions, the cant and the pathos of the art world, artists, pseudo-artists, aficionados, and dilettantes - all are amply represented here in the midst of their foibles, grand affairs, and failures, drawn with great style and subtlety by a writer gathering her formidable powers."--BOOK JACKET.

This collection of tales is set against the background of the South Pacific, the endless ocean, the coral specks called islands, the coconut palms, the reefs, the jungle and the full moon rising against the jungle. The tales are told by a young naval officer whose duties on an Admiral's staff take him up and down the islands.