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Comedy & Satire eBook Series

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  • The Landloper

    The Romance of a Man on Foot

    by Holman Day ...
    Series series Comedy & Satire
    Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by William Orpen, John Lavery and John Sloan. A rich man's son puts on a tramp's clothes to see his own country as the poor see it, and finds a mill town where the water is bad and the company owns the mayor. Holman Day was a Maine newspaperman who filled his books with loggers, drivers and local politicians, and knew precisely how a small city is ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Egypt Went Broke

    A Comedy of a Maine Mill Town

    by Holman Day ...
    Series series Comedy & Satire
    Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Jean-Achille Benouville and George Bellows. Egypt, Maine — a mill town — goes broke when the bank fails, and a scheme to print local currency, a mill owner, and a young man with nothing to lose take it from there. Day was a Maine newspaperman whose books are full of loggers, river drivers and small-town politicians; the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Greatest Works of Thomas Wolfe (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River & You Can't Go Home Again

    by Thomas Wolfe, Bennett Alderwyn ...
    The Greatest Works of Thomas Wolfe gathers the major achievements of one of American modernism's most prodigious voices, showcasing fiction that transforms autobiography into vast, lyrical myth. Across novels such as Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River, The Web and the Rock, and You Can't Go Home Again, Wolfe renders family, ambition, exile, memory, and the restless promise of America in ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Big Book of Ghost Stories

    The Most Complete Collection of Uncanny, Spooky, Creepy Tales Ever Published

    by Otto Penzler ...
    Over a thousand pages of haunted—and haunting—ghost tales: the most complete collection of uncanny, spooky, creepy tales ever published! Edited and with an introduction by Otto Penzler. Including stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Rudyanrd Kipling, Isaac Asimov, James MacCreigh, and many more! Featuring eerie vintage ghost illustrations.The ghost story is perhaps the oldest of all the supernatural ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Thomas Wolfe, Collection

    by Thomas Wolfe ...
    Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was a major American novelist of the early 20th century.Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels, plus many short stories, dramatic works and novellas. He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodic, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. His books, written and published from the 1920s to the 1940s, vividly reflect on ... Read more

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  • The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain

    by Mark Twain ...
    This comprehensive volume of all of Twain's shorter works is representative of his vast humor and wit. "The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain" includes the following tales: The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Story of the Bad Little Boy, Cannibalism in the Cars, A Day at Niagara, Legend of the Capitoline Venus, Journalism in Tennessee, A Curious Dream, The Facts in the Great ... Read more

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  • Womens Short Stories 1

    by Katherine Masnfield, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton ...
    Series Book 1 - Womens Short Stories
    Womens Short Stories Volume 1. The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished female writers. Miniature masterpieces with ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Best Short Stories

    Chosen in 1914 by the most prominent authors of the day, Volume I

    by Martin Hill Ortiz, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens ...
    Series series The Best Short Stories
    Have you read the 50 best short stories of all time?In 1914, a critical moment in literature, The New York Times asked the most highly regarded authors of the day to name the best short story in the English language. Many of their responses have maintained consistent fame through time. Others have become hidden gems. All are essential literary experiences that will make you love to read again ... Read more

    $8.44 CAD

  • Hospital Sketches

    by Louisa May Alcott ...
    This is a record of the horrifying and heart-wrenching personal experiences by Alcott. Working as a nurse during the American Civil War she had a personal encounter with the brutalities of mankind. Her amazing style of narration breathes life into the historic events that shaped the America of today. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • The Femme Fatales Of Horror, Vol. 2

    by Mrs Henry Wood, F. Marion Crawford, M. E. Braddon ...
    The Femme Fatales Of Horror. Volume 2. Women, so often referred to as the gentler sex, in this volume at least, is an unfounded and unlikely description. From their minds and pens comes a series of macabre, twisted, tales that are anything but gentle. But as they weave their magic, usually black, and mesh you into their narrative you just know sugar and spice and all things nice are not likely ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Old Nurse's Story

    by Elizabeth Gaskell ...
    The old nurse’s story” (1906) is a short novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell , the Victorian writer. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Prussian Officer And The White Stocking

    by D. H. Lawrence ...
    Both the works portray the genius of Lawrence. Through brilliant delineation of characters he has portrayed profound emotions. In different styles he presents how the intense feelings lead to disaster if they are not properly expressed. Writer's brilliant view of life is presented through these amazing narratives. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD