Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Mr. Harrison’s Confessions is a story of country doctor William Harrison who is prevailed upon by his longtime friend Charles, a bachelor, to dispense some advice on the «wooing and winning» of women’s affections.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Lois the Witch is set against the backdrop of the Salem witch hunts. Recently orphaned, Lois is forced to leave the English parsonage and sail to America. When the girl joins her distant family, she finds jealousy and dissension are rife, and her cousins quick to point the finger at the "imposter. "

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Moorland Cottage is a story of Maggie Browne, the daughter of a deceased clergyman who is encouraged to give up her own life and passions and devote herself to her brother Edward. Through the example and guidance of her mother, a young woman learns that self-sacrifice is the key to living a fulfilled life.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Collected Short Stories II introduces us to a set of characters who take turns to recount stories to one another during their weekly soiree. «The Half Brothers» is sad short story about brotherly love and a sheep-dog named Lassie.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Collected Short Stories I introduces us to a set of characters who take turns to recount stories to one another during their weekly soiree. An Accursed Race is actually an essay about a persecuted minority group, the Cagots in Western France. The Doom of the Griffiths is a gothic short story about a cursed family and set in Wales.

F. S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Tales of Jazz Age VIII is a collection of brilliant short stories, including «Two Wrongs» and an ironic «The Night of Chancellorsville» in which a trainload of light ladies is catapulted unawares into the realities of the Civil War.

F. S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Tales of Jazz Age VII is a collection of brilliant short stories: «The Scandal Detectives», «He Thinks He’s Wonderful», «The Captured Shadow», «The Perfect Life» and others. It also includes «The Freshest Boy» — the story about a naive and dreamy boy and his discouragement while attending a preparatory school.

F.S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. A collection of incredible short stories Tales of the Jazz Age II brings to vivid life the dazzling excesses, stunning contrasts, and simmering unrest of a glittering era.

F.S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. A collection of incredible short stories Tales of the Jazz Age I brings to vivid life the dazzling excesses, stunning contrasts, and sirnmering unrest of a glittering era.

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. In 1867 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins collaborated to produce a stage play titled No Thoroughfare. Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, Walter Wilding. After the death of one — now a proprietor of a wine merchant’s company — the executors are commissioned to find a missing heir. Their quest takes them from wine cellars in the City of London to the sunshine of the Mediterranean — across the Alps in winter.

William Willcie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. This Collins’ work were classified at the time as «sensation novel», a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective and suspense fiction. John Jago’s Ghost, is a novella based on the Boorn Brothers murder case.

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Family Secret and Dream Woman are classic mysteries. The Dream Woman tells a story of Francis Raven who had a dream about a woman killing him. Then he met a girl called Alicia Warlock who looked like the person in his thoughts.