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A lot can happen on the way from one place to another, especially when an overnight flight makes for an unexpected romantic encounter between strangers seated together; a trucker finds life beyond the ranch where he grew up; and a bored Midwestern housewife tries to escape Kansas City.

In "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches", Violet Hunter asks Sherlock Holmes whether she should accept a job with very strange conditions. She has been offered £120 per year as a governess, but only if she will cut her long hair short. This is only one of many peculiar conditions to which she must agree. The employer, Jephro Rucastle, seems pleasant enough, yet Miss Hunter obviously has her suspicions. After a fortnight, Miss Hunter beseeches Holmes to come and see her in Winchester, as the situation has become even stranger. This is the last of the 12 stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

A man who sleeps for 20 years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world. This is an American classic!

Mr. Satterthwaite and Colonel Melrose are comfortably ensconced in the Colonel’s study when the phone suddenly rings. Someone has been murdered, and, as the county chief constable, the Colonel lets Satterthwaite accompany him to the scene of the crime. The two of them have opposing opinions on...

Unlike the other arts, American literature has been a powerful, influential, and leading aspect of American culture. By turns sedate and mercurial and possessing a moral mind set of various social values, the American short story reveals in its pages the psyche of a growing, sprawling nation whose sense of destiny has always been larger than life. Here are seven masterpieces that will make you smile, make you frown, and leave you pondering the mystery that surrounds the soul of a great nation.

In A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean claims that “in my family, there is no clear line between religion and fly-fishing.” Nor is there a clear line between family and fly-fishing. It is the one activity where brother can connect with brother and father with son, bridging troubled relationships at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana. In Maclean’s autobiographical novella, it is the river that makes them realize that life continues and all things are related.

What happens when women step out of line and take control of their own stories? Big fears, small frustrations, and the power of hope collide as seven award-winning authors explore the possibilities. From demanding equal pay to resisting a genetically engineered future, this collection offers up visions that are grimly funny, deeply touching, and chillingly conceivable.

The Tragedy of Errors is the lengthy and detailed plot outline for the final but never published Ellery Queen novel, containing all the hallmarks of the greatest Queen mysteries - the dying message, the succession of false solutions before the astonishing truth is revealed, and scrupulous fair play to the listener. And the theme is one that Queen had been developing for many years: the manipulation of events in a world going mad by people who aspire to the power of gods.

These nine globe-trotting, unforgettable stories from Mia Alvar, a remarkable new literary talent, vividly give voice to the women and men of the Filipino diaspora. Here are exiles, emigrants, and wanderers uprooting their families from the Philippines to begin new lives in the Middle East, the United States, and elsewhere - and sometimes turning back again.

These stories display Twain's place in American letters as a master writer in the authentic native idiom. He was exuberant and irreverent, but underlying the humor was a vigorous desire for social justice and a pervasive equalitarian attitude.

In this engaging collection of stories, Rumpole continues to deftly juggle the vagaries of law, the ambiguities of crime, and the contradictions of the human heart in his death-defying performances on behalf of justice. The irreverent, claret-swilling, poetry-spouting barrister takes on suspect connoisseurs in the art world, journeys deep into the throbbing heart of Africa, dabbles in some feminist politics, decides the countryside is a very dangerous place, and incurs the wrath of his wife, She Who Must Be Obeyed.

"A collection of wistful, witty stories." --Esquire "Hilarious, deep and a little bit dirty." --Harper's Bazaar A grief-stricken librarian decides to have sex with every man who enters her library. A half-mad, unbearably beautiful heiress follows a strange man home, seeking total sexual...

“Du Maurier is in a class by herself.” —New York Times Perhaps best known for her immortal gothic masterwork Rebecca—the basis for the Academy Award-winning motion picture directed by Alfred Hitchcock—Daphne de Maurier began her illustrious writing career penning short stories. In The...

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】いつもなら、家でわずかの間に姿が見えなくなれば、必ず子供はどうしたと尋ねるのが常であるのに、その日の午後は、なぜか数時間の間、子供を尋ねることをしなかった。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】昭和当時の社会背景、恋愛観、結婚観についての随筆。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】戦時中の東京の様子と特に働く女性たちについての観察が描れたエッセイ。徴用され工場勤めになった画家の友人を訪ね、自作の小説集の表紙画を依頼するため、東京のある工場を数度訪れる。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】ロシアの作家イワン・ツルゲーネフの人生と作品について書かれた評論。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】もらい子のリョウヘイは理解してくれない母親のもとで寂しい日々を過ごしていた。彼の心の拠り所となったのが二人のおばさんだった。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

自身の文学観を述べた随筆。編集者がつけた「私の文学」という題に対し、「この種の文章は往々にして、いやみな自己弁護になるか、卑屈な謙遜になるか、傲慢な自己主張になりやすい。」と語る。そして自身の文学が毀誉褒貶（きよほうへん）の渦中にあると述べるが、「ほめられれば一応うれしいし、けなされれば一応面白くない。しかし一応である。」と続ける。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

山ノ手のとあるカフェで二人の青年が話している。酔っている方の青年は、崖の上から窓を見るのが趣味で、そこには人に言えない欲望、人のベッドシーンが見たいという特殊な執着があった。そして彼には、そんな興味で崖の上から見る一つの窓がある。実際に人のベッドシーンを見ることはないが、それよりも夢想する時の心の状態が何とも言えない恍惚なのだという。