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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Great Short Works of Herman Melville	Herman Melville	Collection of 22 stories: The Town-Ho's Story [Bartleby, the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartleby_the_Scrivener) Cock-A-Doodle Doo The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles The …	OL102653W
The Illustrated Man	Ray Bradbury	The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of eighteen science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. A recurring theme throughout the eighteen stories is the conflict of the cold mecha…	OL103128W
I Sing the Body Electric!	Ray Bradbury	Eighteen stories with bizarre and whimsical themes which transcend time and space.	OL103156W
Little Mook	Wilhelm Hauff	Two stories in which disadvantaged characters use magic to overcome adversity.	OL10402W
The Apprentices (Apprentices #1-12)	Leon Garfield	*In the year 1764, a London newspaper reported the case of a Cheapside haberdasher’s apprentice who had embezzled ten thousand pounds of his master’s money. The apprentice had not gambled with this p…	OL10538188W
Variations	Claire Lorrimer	A collection of stories to suit the reader's every mood... tender, funny, romantic, bitter-sweet, nostalgic... Sensitively written and with particular insight into the emotions of the young and the o…	OL10540181W
The birthday burglar	Margaret Mahy	In the first of these two short stories, Bassington, a rich little boy who has never had a birthday, decides to steal one from Mrs. Herringbone and Joanna Joy. In the second story, headmistress Tatia…	OL10581414W
Mystery Stories	Thomas Wright,Paul Ernst,Carl Gustav Jung,Joan Aiken,Ambrose Bierce,Ray Bradbury,Emily Brontë,Rodrigues Ottolengui,Paul Jennings,Agatha Christie,Diana Wynne Jones,Eleanor Farjeon,Ann Pilling,Helen Cresswell,Adrian Reynolds	The green arches / Joan Aiken -- The Aztec opal / Rodrigues Ottolengui -- Wuthering Heights (an extract) / Emily Brontë -- The girl who kissed a peach tree (an Italian folktale) / Eleanor Farjeon…	OL1065287W
Comme l'eau qui coule	Marguerite Yourcenar	Set in Rembrandt's Amsterdam, An Obscure Man is the story of Nathanael - innocent, open to experience, borne like Everyman upon the stream of life. In A Lovely Morning, Nathanael's young son joins a …	OL106866W
The tale of Peter Rabbit and other stories	Beatrix Potter	The classic tales of Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, the Tailor of Gloucester, Jeremy Fisher, Benjamin Bunny, Miss Moppet, and the Two Bad Mice, plus Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes,…	OL108713W
The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter	Beatrix Potter	A collection of tales featuring Peter Rabbit and his friends.	OL108750W
The chronicles of Pantouflia	Andrew Lang	Two original fairy tales, by the renowned collector of folklore, in which Prince Prigio and Prince Ricardo struggle against the forces of evil.	OL1088936W
A book of the short story	Arthur Conan Doyle,Антон Павлович Чехов,E. A. Cross,Charles Dickens,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Jack London,Ethan Allen Cross	The prodigal son / The Bible The mysterious bride / James Hogg Rip van Winkle / Washington Irving Wandering Willie's tale / Sir Walter Scott The pistol shot / Alexander Pushkin Ligeia / Edg…	OL11020634W
Life of Christ	Fulton J. Sheen	Filled with compassion and brilliant scholarship, Fulton Sheen's recounting of the Birth, Life, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Christ is as dramatic and moving as the subject Himself	OL111056W
Moment of Vengeance and Other Stories	Elmore Leonard	Before he brilliantly traversed the gritty landscapes of underworld Detroit and Miami, the incomparable Elmore Leonard wrote breathtaking adventures set in America's nineteenth-century western fronti…	OL111650W
Queer stories for boys and girls	Edward Eggleston	Presents twenty stories, including such titles as "Bobby and the Key-Hole," "Simon and the Garuly," "The Story of a Flutter-Wheel," and "Flat Tail the Beaver."	OL1145604W
The secrets of Dr. Taverner	Violet M. Firth (Dion Fortune)	Perhaps no occultist in the 20th Century has so fully combined a practical knowledge of Magick with a deep understanding of depth psychology as Dion Fortune, unless it be Israel Regardie. Dion For…	OL114610W
Tales of terror from the Black Ship	Chris Priestley	Not for the faint-hearted, The Black Ship is a novel packed with chills, thrills, nail-biting suspense and heart-stopping revelations At the Old Inn, which clings precariously to a cliff top above a …	OL11644755W
The End of Youth	Rebecca Brown	The End of Youth is a collection of 13 linked stories, essays and rants, about carrying on after youth’s hope is gone. In "Afraid of the Dark," a child learns that there is good reason to be afraid…	OL12037831W
Mother West Wind's animal friends	Thornton W. Burgess	Fifteen tales that explain how Prickly Porky got his quills, why Johnny Chuck ran away, the reason for Jerry Muskrat's new house, and other mysteries about the residents of the Green Meadow.	OL121244W