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Science Fiction and Fantasy stories of STRANGEST ilk.Other Tales: Volume IV contains seven bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including rare comedies from Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury, three mysterious and moving yarns from prominent women of genre fiction, and an original science fiction tale by author E.S. Raye, writer of Gas Giant Gambit: A Tall Tale from Beyond the Cygnus Rift.Volume IV contains stories byIsa...

Science Fiction and Fantasy stories of STRANGEST ilk.Other Tales: Volume IV contains seven bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including rare comedies from Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury, three mysterious and moving yarns from prominent women of genre fiction, and an original science fiction tale by author E.S. Raye, writer of Gas Giant Gambit: A Tall Tale from Beyond the Cygnus Rift.Volume IV contains stories byIsa...

Science Fiction and Fantasy stories of STRANGEST ilk.Other Tales: Volume IV contains seven bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including rare comedies from Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury, three mysterious and moving yarns from prominent women of genre fiction, and an original science fiction tale by author E.S. Raye, writer of Gas Giant Gambit: A Tall Tale from Beyond the Cygnus Rift.Volume IV contains stories byIsa...

After the birth of her child, a nameless woman is sent away to a colonial mansion to deal with “nervous depression” and “hysterical tendency” at the behest of her husband. Commanded to bedrest and with nothing to occupy her mind but her journal, she records her growing obsession with the yellow wallpaper that lines her room and her eventual descent into madness as she tries to unlock the mystery of it.Gilman’s story is a true American classic and a feminist reflection on patriarcha...

'Beauty and the Beast' is a magical tale of love, understanding, and triumph. Late one night a merchant becomes lost in the woods and stumbles upon a seemingly deserted castle. Hungry and tired, he enters the castle and finds a feast laid out on a grand table. Finding no one else in the castle, he eats the food himself. In the morning as he leaves he finds a beautiful rose bush in the garden and picks a single flower for his daughter Belle. Suddenly a beast appears and tells him he must di...

Through a series of journal entries, a woman records her thoughts and feelings over the course of a summer, shortly after giving birth to her child. Confined to her bedroom on the advice of her husband, a physician, “The Yellow Wallpaper” chronicles the woman’s increasing instability, as she becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper covering the walls of her room.“The Yellow Wallpaper” is considered one of the earliest American feminist works of fiction and is unique for author Ch...

Kew Gardens was written in the year 1919 by Virginia Woolf. This book is one of the most popular novels of Virginia Woolf, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. They look so dull and dowdy in the spring weather, when the snow drops and the crocuses are putting on their dainty frocks of white and mauve and yellow, and the baby-buds from every branch are peeping with bright eyes out on the world, and stretching forth soft little leaves toward the coming gladness of their lives. They stand apart, so cold and hard amid the stirring hope and joy that are throbbing a...

The Hands of Mr. Ottermole plunges the reader into the terrifying, fog-shrouded, gas-lit alleys of London, where a series of brutal knife murders has terrorized the working-class streets. The police are baffled, and the public is gripped by fear of a mysterious, unseen serial killer.The investigation falls to a tireless, methodical Inspector obsessed with unmasking the elusive predator.Burke masterfully builds an unbearable atmosphere of suspicion and dread, culminating in...

On the Decay of the Art of Lying is a short essay by Mark Twain from 1885. In it he deplores that way man's "most faithful friend" is being used and indeed misused, declaring that "the wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and ...

The Red Room by H. G. Wells.