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The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is one of Stevenson's darker, more political novels. Two brothers are brought into conflict by the Jacobite rising of 1745, which tears their family apart.

Contains: [Hound of the Baskervilles]( [Study in Scarlet](

Poetry and prose written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow List of Poems: The song of Hiawatha Evangeline The courtship of Miles Standish The village blacksmith A Psalm of life The rainy day The light of stars God's acre The reaper and the flowers The wreck of the Hesperus The arrow and the song Footsteps of angels Endymion The arsenal at Springfield In the churchyard at Cambridge The belfry of Bruges The day is done Curfew The bridge The old clock on the stairs Michael Angelo: A fragment Birds of passage Twilight The building of a ship Daybreak The fire of Driftwood Haunted houses The Jewish cemetery at Newport My lost youth A day of sunshine Paul Revere's ride The children's hour Killed at the Ford Palingenesis A nameless grave The sound of the sea The poets The broken oar Morituri Salutamus Holidays Nature The tide rises, the tide falls My cathedral The poet and his songs Memories The cross of snow

The celebrated jumping frog -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg -- A fable -- The story of the good little boy -- The story of the bad little boy -- The £1,000,000 bank note -- Jim Baker's bluejay yarn -- A medieval romance -- The $30,000 bequest -- The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm -- Was it heaven? or hell? -- Extract from Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven -- A dog's tale.

An illustrated collection of fourteen short stories reflecting various aspects of American life at the turn of the nineteenth century.

[Berenice]( [Black Cat]( [Cask of Amontillado]( [Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar]( [Fall of the House of Usher]( Gold-Bug Hop-Frog [Imp of the Perverse]( [Masque of the Red Death]( Metzengerstein Morella Murders in the Rue Morgue Oblong Box [Pit and the Pendulum]( [Premature Burial]( [Purloined Letter]( Tale of the Ragged Mountains [Tell-tale Heart]( [William Wilson](

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892. It contains the earliest short stories featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, which had been published in twelve monthly issues of The Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The stories are collected in the same sequence, which is not supported by any fictional chronology. The only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson and all are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view. Contains: [Scandal in Bohemia]( [Red-headed League]( [Case of Identity]( [Boscombe Valley Mystery]( [Five Orange Pips]( [Man with the Twisted Lip]( [Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle]( [Adventure of the Speckled Band]( [Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb]( [Adventure of the Noble Bachelor]( [Adventure of the Beryl Coronet]( [Adventure of the Copper Beeches](