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Two Stories by Katherine Mansfield
“The Garden Party” and “Mr. and Mrs. Dove”. Mansfield once said “Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do...
Two Stories by Robert Barr: “The Understudy” and “Two Florentine Balconies”
A crime story writer during the Sherlock Holmes era, Barr wrote the first Holmes parody, "The Adventures of "Sherlaw Kombs", a spoof that was...
The Hanging Stranger and Beyond the Door by Philip K. Dick.
Dick was an under-rated master of Science Fiction, in which he gravitated to writing dystopian stories. His cautionary tales, often featuring witty and gothic...
The Teacher of Literature by Anton Chekhov
Chekhov studied to be a Dr. He once said "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one,...
In the Pavillion by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Rinehart is known for murder mysteries, in the style of Agatha Christie. She is credited with coining the phrase “the butler did it!” She...
The Plattner Story by H.G. Wells
Wells was a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale....