Never before collected in one volume, here are Pete Hamill's stories about Brooklyn, the borough in which he was born and grew up, and the one closest to his heart. A young boy with a mysterious past forever transforms the lives of the neighborhood toughs. A man returns to his old haunts to avenge the death of his brother. A couple chooses to embrace their memories of a bygone era rather than live in a diminished future. These are stories of a New...

The Monster and Other Stories (1899) is a collection of short fiction by American writer Stephen Crane. "The Monster," a novella, was originally published in 1898 in Harper's Magazine and has since been recognized as one of Crane's most important works, a story which critiques the racism prevalent in American society. In 1899, it was published alongside "The Blue Hotel" and "His New Mittens" in The Monster and Other Stories, which was the last work...

"A collection of short stories all set in and around Bryant Park in New York City"--

Separated into four parts, Tales of a Traveler features twenty-seven works of short fiction, all catering to a sense of adventure and interest in the macabre. The first part, titled Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman explores the odd escapades of its protagonists. In The Adventure of a German Student, a young man meets a strange woman on a stormy night, looking for shelter. The student allows the woman to stay in his apartment for the night, but...

She could save her brother, but it would change her life.Kendra Mason couldn't catch a break. Her husband was cheating on her, and he could put her out of business. Then her little brother got out of prison. Robert Mason, Jr. was just like his father, a man who spent most of his life behind bars.Bobby stole from the wrong man, and a contract was on his head.One man stood between Bobby and certain death. She had known Jaylen since they were kids, and...

Bracebridge Hall, written by the esteemed author, Washington Irving, is a collection of location-based character sketches, detailing the lives and personalities of the occupants of a countryside manor in Yorkshire, England, owned by a squire. Narrated by an American man who is an old acquaintance of the squire, Bracebridge Hall follows the events leading up to the wedding of the squire's son, Guy, and his bride-to-be, Julia. Beginning with the arrival...

It's Christmas time in New York City and the bottom of the ninth in Maximilian Clark II's life. His father, Max senior, just passed from cancer. Meanwhile, Max lost his job selling pizza during Knicks' games at Madison Square Garden and his fake watch collection he usually sells on the corner of Times Square was stolen from his beat up Chevy van later that same day. Unable to make rent, his wife left him with their two kids after they were served...

Daniel grew up without a father. His mother told him that his father died the year he was born, and he had no reason to doubt her ... until now. Daniel's getting married next week. He's got his future all worked out. It's his past that's the problem... Daniel never knew his father. All his mother would say was that his dad had been a Nigerian who died the year Daniel was born. He didn't even know what his dad looked like, until an old neighbour...

Stories of Laughter and Lament, set among the filthy rich and the dirt poor, seven stories first selected and published by Penguin Books. Widows. Charles Rand fell off his yacht, somewhere in the middle of the bay, on one of the first pale blue evenings of autumn. Later, the Coroner would be unable to fix that time more precisely than between six and ten o'clock. Newspapers, reporting that he had sailed off without crew, used terms which pictured...

Los cuentos de Nobis, de Juan Ramírez Biedermann -escritor y miembro de Sabaoth, la primera banda de Black Metal de Sudamérica- están localizados en el barrio de Las Mercedes de Asunción, y acaecen durante la primera mitad de la década de los noventa, en el momento en que el barrio empezaba a detenerse en el tiempo. Sus relatos conforman un universo: el del propio barrio con su gente, su lenguaje, su idiosincrasia y sus peculiaridades sociales. Nobis,...