Travel & Adventure
Subtitle: short stories by great writers
By: selected by Rosemary Gray
Series: Worth pocket companions
Publisher: Worth Pocket Companions
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781849310710
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Travel; Fiction; Short stories
Other titles: Travel and adventure
Description: Sad, funny, chilling, mysterious, romantic and always intriguing, these small masterpieces from teh pens not only of literary legends but also of accomplished lesser-known writers of the past are guaranteed to capture the imagination, engage the emotions, linger in the memory and whet the appetite for more.
Table of contents: title: A journey / Edith Wharton; title: An outpost of progress / Joseph Conrad; title: The belated Russian passport / Mark Twain; title: The journey to Bruges / Katherine Mansfield; title: The beach at Falesá / Robert Louis Stevenson; title: The adventure of Black Peter / Arthur Conan Doyle; title: The journey to Panama / Anthony Trollope; title: The phantom coach / Amelia B. Edwards; title: Home sickness / George Moore; title: On the Brighton road / Richard Middleton; title: Three hours between trains / F. Scott Fitzgerald; title: The seed of McCoy / Jack London; title: A prodigal in Tahiti / Chrales Warren Stoddard; title: The whale in the cave / Frank T. Bullen; title: A tough tussle / Ambrose Bierce; title: On the journey / Guy de Maupassant.