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H.H. Munro (Saki) is one of the undisputed masters of the short story. In this complete compendium, the full gamut of his subjects and themes is experienced. His stories are imbued with humorous satire, biting irony, and often the macabre, all of which have one target: the stupidities and hypocrisies of Edwardian upper-class society.

Greg Host is a normal guy. Or at least he was 6'2", mid-level retail manager, owner of one judgmental cat. But when he notices he’s a fraction shorter one morning, his ordinary life begins to unravel one inch at a time. No one believes him. Doctors shrug. His mom blames dehydration. And the universe? It just keeps laughing.

Andrea Levy, author of the Man Booker shortlisted novel THE LONG SONG and the prize-winning, million-copy bestseller SMALL ISLAND, draws together a remarkable collection of short stories from across her writing career, which began twenty years ago with the publication of her first novel, the...

Crisman Cooley, despite an admitted lack of expertise, aims to educate the reading public in the mysteries of the alphabet while frolicking about in the vast lexicon of English. He has managed to include all 26 letters mostly in the right order. For the data driven: This book contains 2,449 total words, and 1,744 of them are unique words - only used once. That's a 71.21 percent Unique Word Ratio (UWR). That's a higher UWR than the King James Bible (1.86 percent UWR) and Shakespeare (3.26 percent UWR). The author has confidence that this problem can be better solved by Big Data.