Excerpt: "e;The establishment of Yeh Ling was just between the desert of Reed Street, and the sown of that great and glittering thoroughfare which is theatreland.
First published in 1922, The Mercy of Allah describes the civilization of the Arabs through the extraordinary tales a wealthy grandfather relates to his beloved grandchildren.
The tales selected here are taken from various volumes, and two of them, "e;The Elephant"e; and "e;The White Poodle,"e; from a volume specially designed by Kuprin for reading aloud to children.
Excerpt: "e;Fractiousness was the keynote of the mental atmosphere in a certain substantial-looking South Kensington house on a certain Monday morning.
The Purcell Papers (1880) are a collection of thirteen Gothic, supernatural, historical and humorous short stories by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73) originally written for the Dublin University Magazine.
Richard Whiteing's The Island, Or, An Adventure Of A Person Of Quality is an intriguing exploration of societal structures and human nature, wrapped in a narrative of adventure and discovery.
Excerpt: "e;Not even in the centre of the old arched en trance which had been filled up, which gave a certain air of disreputable irregularity to the pale and stern old dwelling-place.
Excerpt: "e;Four men were seated around a camp fire made of old railroad ties, over which a kettle was boiling merrily, where it hung from an improvised crane above the blaze.
The Notting Hill Mystery (1862-1863) is an English-language detective novel written under the pseudonym Charles Felix, with illustrations by George du Maurier.
The Secret of Chimneys is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in June 1925 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.
Excerpt: "e;About six o'clock on an evening in the early part of a recent November, the drowsy quiet sometimes pervading police headquarters was rudely broken by the precipitate entrance of a young man, who made his way hurriedly to the door marked, in neat gilt letters, "e;CHIEF OF POLICE.
Excerpt: "e;There is a well-known French restaurant in the "e;Tenderloin"e; district which provides its patrons with small but elegantly appointed private dining-rooms.
Excerpt: "e;The Holy Man, motionless, gaunt, his eyes filled with the peace of Allah, the one and only God, stood afar off, outlined against the moonlight, watching two horsemen fleeing for their lives across the desert.
Excerpt: "e;The Westbound Overland on the Santa Fe Railway, although doing its splendid fifty miles an hour, seemed to two of its passengers to be moving at a snail's pace; for the journey ahead of them was long, and their destination, which was far northward from San Francisco, the only spot on earth worth reaching.
Dieser Band beinhaltet folgende Kurzgeschichten: "Die tanzenden Männchen", ("The Dancing Men"), Der angesehene Gutsbesitzer Hilton Cubitt bittet Holmes um Hilfe.
