PDF Books in Fiction Short Stories
The Chimes
by Charles DickensThe Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol and one year before The Cricket on the Hearth. It is the second in his series of "Christmas books": five short books with strong social and moral messages that he..
Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read
by Charles DickensCharles Dickens was one of the greatest among the many story-writers of "the Victorian age;" that is, the middle and latter part of the Nineteenth Century, when Victoria was Queen of Great Britain. Perhaps he was the greatest of them all for now, a generation after he passed away, more people read the stories of Dickens than those by any other auth..
To Be Read at Dusk
by Charles DickensTo Be Read at Dusk (1852) is a short story written by Charles Dickens, and was first published in Heath's Keepsake. In the text, five couriers talking amongst themselves outside a convent on the summit of the Great St Bernard Pass are overheard by the narrator as two of their group's members relate short ghost stories; one of a woman who abandons h..
A Child's Dream of a Star
by Charles DickensTHERE was once a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child too, and his constant companion. These two used to wonder all day long. They wondered at the beauty of the flowers; they wondered at the height and blueness of the sky; they wondered at the depth of the bright water; they w..
The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago is a volume collecting 13 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1922 by John Murray. The stories covers various centuries from Antiquity to first millenary...
The Dealings of Captain Sharkey, and Other Tales of Pirates
by Arthur Conan DoyleTales of Pirates and Blue Water is a volume collecting 12 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1925. The volume is divided in two parts: Tales of Pirates with stories of pirates, and Tales of Blue Water with stories of sea. The same content has been published previously in 1922 in Tales of Pirates and Blue Water by John Mu..
The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight an the Unseen is a volume collecting 12 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published in 1925 by George H. Doran Co...
Beyond the City
by Arthur Conan DoyleBeyond the City (subtitled The Idyl of a Suburb) is a novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in Good Cheer, the christmas number of Good Words in the end of 1891...