The Traveller's Tale of a Terrible Bed
The Traveller's Tale of a Terrible Bed

Author: Wilkie Collins

Publisher:

Published: 1999-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781860920424

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Stories in the Travelman Short Stories series take the reader to places of mystery, fantasy, horror, romance, and corners of the universe yet unexplored. In turn, readers take them on the bus or subway, slip them into briefcases and lunchboxes, and send them from Jersey to Juneau.Each classic or original short story is printed on one sheet of paper and folded like a map. This makes it simple to read while commuting, convenient to carry when not, and easy to give or send to a friend. A paper envelope is provided for mailing or gift-giving, and both are packaged in a clear plastic envelope for display. The cost is not much more than a greeting card.

The Traveller's Story of a Very Strange Bed
The Traveller's Story of a Very Strange Bed

Author: Wilkie Collins

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-04-11

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13:

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This is a short story set in Paris. The main character is a young man, who in pursuit of something 'different' to do one evening, ventures with his friend into a gambling den. Here is none of the glamour and glitz of the casino; here is the sordid side of gambling and the toll it takes on those addicted to it.

The Traveler's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed
The Traveler's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed

Author: Wilkie Collins

Publisher:

Published: 2014-10-06

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9781502735546

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Shortly after my education at college was finished, I happened to be staying at Paris with an English friend. We were both young men then, and lived, I am afraid, rather a wild life, in the delightful city of our sojourn. One night we were idling about the neighborhood of the Palais Royal, doubtful to what amusement we should next betake ourselves. My friend proposed a visit to Frascati's; but his suggestion was not to my taste. I knew Frascati's, as the French saying is, by heart; had lost and won plenty of five-franc pieces there, merely for amusement's sake, until it was amusement no longer, and was thoroughly tired, in fact, of all the ghastly respectabilities of such a social anomaly as a respectable gambling-house.

The Traveller's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed
The Traveller's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed

Author: Wilkie Collins

Publisher:

Published: 2008-04

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9781409913498

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William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely popular in his time, and wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and over 100 pieces of non-fiction work. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1860), The Moonstone (1868), Armadale (1866) and No Name (1862). His works were classified at the time as 'sensation novels', a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective fiction and suspense fiction. He also wrote penetratingly on the plight of women and on the social and domestic issues of his time. His novel, No Name combined social commentary - the absurdity of the law as it applied to children of unmarried parents - with a densely-plotted revenge thriller. Amongst his other works are: Basil (1852), Hide and Seek (1854), After the Dark (1856), The Frozen Deep (1857), The Queen of Hearts (1859), Man and Wife (1870), The New Magdalen (1873), The Law and the Lady (1875), The Two Destinies (1876), and A Rogue's Life (1879).

Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories
Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories

Author: Rex Collings

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781853261862

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This work comprises a collection of classic and lesser-known ghost stories from the Victorian and Edwardian eras. It includes ghosts as fictional creations and as real apparitions. It includes contributions from all over the world.