DescriptionEngland 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant's beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught up in her family's twisted intrigues. Then a brutal crime is committed, with consequences that threaten to destroy Thomas and all that he has come to hold dear. Despite his efforts, Shield is caught up in a deadly tangle of sex, money, murder, and lies, a tangle that grips him tighter even as he tries to escape from it. And what of the strange American child at the heart of these macabre events? What is the secret of the boy named Edgar Allan Poe?
DescriptionThis collection is a short-story lover's dream. Included are 17 classic works, representing the finest writers of the genre. This volume contains: "Bartleby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville "The One Million Pound Bank Note" by Mark Twain "The Blue Hotel" by Stephen Crane "The Minister's Black Veil" and "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne "The Princess and the Puma" by O. Henry "Under the Lion's Paw" by Hamlin Garland "Love of Life" and "The Law of Life" by Jack London "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "A Horseman in the Sky" by Ambrose Bierce "Paul's Case" by Willa Cather "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "The Adventure of the Mason" by Washington Irving "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" and "Tennessee's Partner" by Bret Harte.
DescriptionBaltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. Everyone seems to accept the conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who met a disgraceful end, except for a young Baltimore lawyer named Quentin Clark, an ardent admi…
DescriptionEdgar Allan Poe is an American boy in England, a child standing on the edge of mysteries. In 1819, two Americans arrive in London. Soon afterward a bank collapses. A man is found horribly mutilated on a building site and an heiress flirts with her inferio…
