In this collection, stories by Nobel Prize recipients like Bjornsterne Bjornsen, Selma Lagerlof, Gerhart Hauptmann, Rabindranath Tagore, Henrik Pontoppidan, Knut Hamsun, Wladyslaw Reymont, Grazia Deledda, Thomas Mann, Sinclair Lewis, Luigi Pirandello, Roger Martin Du Card, William Faulkner, Albert Camus, Boris Pasternak, Ernest Hemingway, Henryk Sienkiewicz and others are included. All stories are complete & unabridged.
Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) is best known for his witty, sometimes whimsical, often cynical and bizarre short stories. His best tales are often more macabre than Kipling's. In his early stories, Saki often portrayed eccentric characters, familiar from Oscar Wilde's plays. Saki's most frequently anthologized short stories are Tobermory', 'Sredni Vastar', 'The Unrest Cure' etc. He was a misogynist, anti-semite, and reactionary, who also did not take himself too serious. His stories, 'true enough to be interesting and not true enough to be tiresome', were considered ideal reading for schoolboys. However, Saki did not have any interest in safeguarding the Edwardian way of life. In this volume, we present a complete collection of his short stories. All stories are complete & unabridged.
Somehow or other I will be famous, and if not famous, I will be notorious', declared Oscar Wilde. He proved to be both. Oscar Wilde was a genius and he transformed his talent into his stories, plays and poems. The world in which Oscar Wilde lived was riddled with hypocrisy and he exposed it in his writings. His only novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray' was published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890 and provoked a storm of protest from the Victorian society. 'It is a tale spawned from the leprous literature of the French decadents - a poisoned book, the atmosphere of which is heavy with mephitic odours of moral and spiritual putrefaction', wrote the critic from the Daily Chronicle. Oscar Wilde wrote a preface, which appeared separately in the Fortnightly Review in March 1891. It contains the famous passage : 'Books are well written, or badly written. That is all'. This volume contains Oscar Wilde's only novel, 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and all other stories. All stories are complete & unabridged.
'Life bubbled with short stones. They were always coming to the surface of my mind.' --------H. G.Wells. Herbert George Wells was one of the most prolific writers in the history of literature and wrote works in nearly every genre, including short stories and non-fiction. He was one of the founders of Science Fictions and an outspoken socialist. Most of his works contain some notable political or social commentary. Wells' short stories explored the enormous potential of the scientific discoveries of his time. This is the only Indian edition which contains all 86 short stories by H. G. Wells.
All stories are complete and unabridged. Total pages: 816
Tales of Mystery & Terror is collection of stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories are different from Sherlock Holmes stories. All stories are complete and unabridged.
240 pages. 13.8 cm x 21.3 cm.
ISBN-13: 9788176060318
CONTENTSTales of Mystery
The Lost Special
The Beetle-Hunter
The Man with the Watches
The Japanned box
The Black Doctor
The Jew’s Breastplate
The Nightmare Room
Tales of Terror
The Horror of the Heights
The Leather Funnel
The New Catacomb
The Case of Lady Sannox
The Terror of Blue John Gap
The Brazilian Cat
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