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After Dark
After Dark is a collection of six short stories by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1856. It was the author’s first collection of short stories. Five of the stories were previously published in Household Words, a magazine edited by Charles Dickens. The stories are titled as below Leaves from Leah’s diaryThe traveler’s story of a […]
The Aspern Papers
The Aspern Papers is a novella by American writer Henry James, originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1888, with its first book publication later in the same year. One of James’s best-known and most acclaimed longer tales, The Aspern Papers is based on the letters Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote to Mary Shelley’s stepsister, Claire […]
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H., and Other Stories
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories is a collection of short semi-comic mystery stories that were written by Oscar Wilde and published in 1891. It includes: Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, The Canterville Ghost, The Sphinx Without a Secret, The Model Millionaire, In later editions, another story, ?The Portrait of Mr. W. H., was added […]
The Croxley Master – A Great Tale Of The Prize Ring
MR. ROBERT MONTGOMERY was seated at his desk, his head upon his hands, in a state of the blackest despondency. Before him was the open ledger with the long columns of Dr. Oldacre’s prescriptions. At his elbow lay the wooden tray with the labels in various partitions, the cork box, the lumps of twisted sealing-wax, […]
Beyond the City
Beyond the City (subtitled The Idyl of a Suburb) is a novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in Good Cheer, the christmas number of Good Words in the end of 1891.
The Firm of Girdlestone
The Firm of Girdlestone is a novel by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in 1890 by Chatto and Windus in London, England. In 1915 a silent film adaptation The Firm of Girdlestone was made. John Girdlestone owns the firm of Girdlestone. It is a very lucrative business and John Girdlestone […]
Rodney Stone
Rodney Stone is a Gothic mystery and boxing novel by Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1896. The eponymous narrator is a Sussex country boy who is taken to London by his uncle Sir Charles Tregellis, a highly respected gentleman and arbiter of fashion who is on familiar terms with the most […]
A Desert Drama – Being The Tragedy Of The “Korosko”
The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898) is a novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was serialized a year earlier in The Strand magazine between May and December 1897, and was later turned into a play Fires of Fate. A group of European tourists are enjoying their trip to Egypt in the year 1895. They […]
The Poison Belt
The Poison Beltis a short science fiction story written byArthur Conan Doylefollowing his early work “The Lost World”. Professor Challenger predicts the earth will move through a poisonous orbit and would result in massive destruction probably end of the world. Professor sends message to his Lost World Team members to meet him and bring Oxygen […]
The Adventure of the Red Circle
The Adventure of the Red Circleis a mystery story byArthur Conan Doylewhich was published as part of series His Last Bow. An young man rents a lodge and pays excess rent for specifically agreed terms. As he has not opened the room since previous night nobody has seen him, but his food and Daily Gazette […]