Tangier is possibly the most cosmopolitan city in the world. In native costume you'll see Berber ...

From 'White and Yellow': San Francisco Bay is so large that often its storms are more disastrous ...

For the twenty-second time since the great wave had washed him from the steamer's deck and hurled...

We arrived at last at a wide cavern with an arched domelike roof. An aperture in the midst let in...

As vacation time approached, Dick and Doc had become as hard as nails and as active as a couple o...

The Prior Aymer had taken the opportunity afforded him, of changing his riding robe for one of ye...

A sailor narrates the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on Moby ...

That blow was the last of the battle. Once out upon the road, Black Dog, in spite of his wound, s...

'The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the sp...

The political situation of the time is portrayed from different viewpoints, and the Scottish High...

The world has not yet forgotten the intensity of the feeling which existed when old Mr. Scarborou...

The story is set in 1790 in the countryside around the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town (historical...

The imperial road to Italy goes from Munich across the Tyrol, through Innsbruck and Bozen to Vero...

Anna, miserable in a loveless marriage, succumbs to the desire for the dashing Vronsky. That sort...

Written in 1913, roughly a year before the outbreak of World War I, much of it takes place in a s...

The setting for The Lost World is believed to have been inspired by reports of Doyle's good frien...

Includes 'The Captain of the 'Polestar',' 'F. Habakuk Jephson's Statement,' 'The Great Keinplatz ...

'There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty ...

The kettle began it! Don't tell me what Mrs. Peerybingle said. I know better. Mrs. Peerybingle ma...

The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that ob...

'A wind sprang high in the west, like a wave of unreasonable happiness, and tore eastward across ...

It is a story about two brothers: 'Colonel Bohun, a drunkard and playboy, and Reverend Bohun, cur...

The Man Who Knew Too Much: From behind the overhanging rock came a noise and rush like that of a ...

In Edwardian era London, Gabriel Syme is recruited at Scotland Yard to a secret anti-anarchist po...

I have just returned from a visit to my landlord -- the solitary neighbor that I shall be trouble...

The story is set in 2158 A.D., after the invention of a medicine called Anti-Gerasone, which is m...

But this is a Fredric Brown story -- and you know that a perfect setup doesn't follow through in ...

'Did you ever wonder at the lonely life the bird in a cuckoo clock has to lead --' wrote the edit...

While in search of enemy subs, Laskell surfaced his one-man submarine off the Florida coast. He t...

With no more room left on Earth, and with Mars hanging up there empty of life, somebody hit on th...

If you had to give your life so that you could live it over again -- would you? Could you? Should...

A short story by Kurt Vonnegut originally written in 1953. It was first published in Galaxy Scien...

'Hold on, there!' came a sharp challenge from the stairs behind and below me. 'What are you doing...

The year is 2137. Two hundred years ago -- in our time, more or less -- Eurasia fought a war to e...

KIM is an utterly enchanting tale of personal growth, filial love, and the joy of life -- set in ...

Few authors, not even with the exception of Rudyard Kipling, have covered so wide a field in thei...

Billy Byrne was a product of the streets and alleys of Chicago's great West Side. From Halsted to...

Here is a story that has lain dormant for seven hundred years. At first it was suppressed by one ...

Billy Byrne squared his broad shoulders and filled his deep lungs with the familiar medium which ...

The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince Lyov, a young man ...

Arkady Kirsanov has just graduated from the University of Petersburg and returns with a friend, B...

These are the tales of Mowgli, the lost boy raised by wolves in the jungles of India, brought up ...

Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek...

Dorian Gray doesn't look a day over twenty-two. Once upon a time, Dorian really was young, handso...

Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote this tale of confused identity and royal intrigue in 1914 and 1915, as...

When adventurer Bowen Tyler was taken captive aboard an enemy submarine, he never dreamed that hi...

Also included in this volume are 'A Haunted Island,' 'A Case of Eavesdropping,' 'Keeping His Prom...

Written in 1906, BEFORE ADAM is a bit of a departure from London's other novels. Still an adventu...