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...Short stories by a colleague of Jerome K. Jerome, and friend of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Barr probably wrote the first parody of Sherlock Holmes (included in this collection). He co-edited The Idler with Jerome. [written by Cz...

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...A collection of Twain short stories including: The Loves Of Alonzo Fitz Clarence And Rosannah Ethelton On The Decay Of The Art Of Lying About Magnanimous-Incident Literature The Grateful Poodle The Benevolent Author The Grateful Husband Punch, Bro...

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Fiction, Short stories

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Fiction, Short stories

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Short stories

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’s Short Story Collection 024: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of members.

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Fiction, Short stories

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...g' books - Dorothy L Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifetime however he was equally well known for his detective stories. Since Sherlock Holmes we have had French detectives, Belgian detectives, aristocratic detectives, royal detectives, ecclesiastical detectives, drunken detectives and even a (very) few quite normal happily married det...

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Mystery, Short stories

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’s Short Story Collection 035: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of members.

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Fiction, Short stories

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’s Short Mystery Story Collection 004: a collection of ten short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of members.

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Fiction, Short stories, Mystery

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...This is the first of thirteen volumes of Anton Chekhov's short stories, translated by Constance Garnett. Anton Chekhov was a Russian doctor who turned to fiction as a hobby, and quickly blossomed into one of the masters of the short story genre. Though he is arguably best known for...

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...What do you do for a fifth anniversary? We decided to have a collection of short works with a difference. We challenged our readers to find any short works which had 'five' in the title - in any language. They have done us proud, and the collection extends to three volumes of short stories, poems, f...

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Short stories

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Short stories

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...This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) stories suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. Emphasis for this collection is Humor in various genres -- fiction and non-fiction. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...

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Short stories, Humor

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Literature, Short stories

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’s Short Mystery Story Collection 005: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of members.

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Mystery, Short stories, Fiction

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Short stories

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Short stories, Adventure, Fiction

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...sany between 1944 and 1956. Those letters are collected in the book Arthur C. Clarke & Lord Dunsany: A Correspondence. Time and the Gods, a series of short stories written in a myth-like style, was first published in 1906. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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Short stories, Fantasy

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Short stories, Poetry

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...A collection of short stories, highlighting some of the best and worst characteristics we women are capable of in our Christianity and in our home life. (Summary by TriciaG)...

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Fiction, Short stories, Religion

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...for its expressionistic language. Several Israeli literary scholars, such as Dan Miron and Gershon Shaked, wrote about his work, especially about the short story BaGanim (In the Gardens) which is about incest between a father and his intellectually disabled daughter. (Summary following Wikipedia)...

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Short stories