Collection: Fiction

A collection of short stories and poetry by Rudyard Kipling

A collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling

An archaeological dig is preparing to open the Hall of Records, a repository of ancient knowledge hidden beneath the Great Sphinx of Egypt. But on the night of the unveiling student Macy Sharif makes a shocking discovery...

Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward into a celebrated activist and lifetime companion? Or will Basil Ransom, a conservative southern lawyer, steal Verena's heart and remove her from the limelight?

In 1881 Big Jim Durham, an English soldier of fortune and profiteer, ruthlessly creates for Elianne Desmarais, his young French wife, the finest of the great sugar mills of the Southern Queensland cane fields, and names it in her honour...

A shy heiress, Catherine Sloper, falls prey to a handsome fortune-hunter. Her father loses her affection when he tries to foil the suitor, and Catherine's aunt has dangerously meddlesome ways.

Irish widow Kate visits Mexico, and is drawn towards a revolutionary movement built around the old, pre-Christian snakebird god of Mexico, Quetzalcoatl. She finds herself hostile to much that she encounters, but is soon forced to abandon her Western ideas

Prosecuted for obscenity and banned on the first appearance in 1915, the book's sensuous immediacy and frankness, especially in its revolutionary treatment of women, remain as vivid today as they were then.

The novel is set in Nethermere and is narrated by Cyril Beardsall, whose sister Lettie is involved in a love triangle with two young men, George and Leslie Temple. She eventually marries Leslie, even though she feels sexually drawn to George.

Henry Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's 'greatest short story writer'. This book contains fifty six of his classic short stories