This book includes 5 fairy tale type stories that exist within Joan Rowling's wizarding world. Similar to our Snow White or Sleeping Beauty, these are stories that all wizard/witch children grow up knowing. The true jewel of this edition is the enlightening and comprehensive commentary by Professor Albus Dumbledore, who brings his unique wizard's-eye perspective to the collection.
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The Oxford Book Of Short Stories
V. S. Pritchett has chosen forty-one stories written in the English language for this volume, producing a collection that successfully displays the wealth and variety of an art that spans some 200 years.
Masters such as, Sir Walter Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham, James Joyce, and V. S. Pritchett himself, and stories by Canadian, Indian, New Zealand, and Australian writers, show the full range of invention and ability in a genre that continues to flourish.
After the alien virus struck humanity in the wake of World War II, a handful of the survivors found they possessed superhuman powers. The Wild Cards shared-world volumes tell their story. Here in book two, we trace these heroes and villains through the tumultuous 1980s, in stories from SF and fantasy giants such as George R. R. Martin, Roger Zelazny, Pat Cadigan, Lewis Shiner, Walter Jon Williams, and others.
Great American Stories: Ten Unabridged Classics (Audiobook)
These ten classic stories from four of America's greatest authors of the 19th and early 20th century were selected for their literary importance as well as their dramatic oral qualities. The stories include Mark Twain’s "The One-Million Pound Bank Note," "A Visit to Niagara," and "A Mysterious Visit;" Stephen Crane’s "The Blue Hotel;" Ambrose Bierce’s "The Eyes of the Panther;" and Jack London’s "The Love of Life" and "To Build a Fire."
