The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories

Essential reading for all armchair detectives, this collection of 33 classic whodunits is the cream of crime writing.

 H.C. Bailey’s detective Reggie Fortune was one of the most popular protagonists of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Fortune appeared in nine novels yet it was in a series of 84 short stories that were published from 1920 to 1940 where he truly shone, combining elements of several

A collection of thirty-two stories of travel by the world's greatest writers past and present, including Edith Wharton, John Updike, Rebecca West, and Jack Kerouac, transports readers to places as far apart as the Rhine and Palestine

Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.

In the late Qing period, from the Opium War to the 1911 revolution, China absorbed the initial impact of Western arms, manufactures, science and culture, in that order. This volume of essays deals with the reception of Western literature, on the evidence of translations made. Having to overcome Chinese assumptions