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my POETRY & SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS – possibilities for the September Read Your Bookshelf Challenge
September’s Read Your Bookshelf Challenge prompt is “collection” so today I am sharing some of my short story and poetry collections with you! If you are joining in on the Read Your Bookshelf Challenge make sure to head to this page each month to enter to win a $100 gift card! BOOKS MENTIONED I’d love to hear any collections you have that you may use for this prompt!
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The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries
Author: Otto PenzlerThis collection of more than 60 locked-room mysteries, which feature a murder committed under seemingly impossible circumstances, include classics from Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie and P.G. Wodehouse, as well as more contemporary tales from Margaret Frazer and Stephen King. Original. 20,000 first printing. Edgar Award–winning editor Otto Penzler has collected sixty-eight of the all-time best impossible-crime stories from almost two hundred years of the genre. In addition to the many classic…
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Author: Oscar WildeA universal favorite, The Importance of Being Earnest displays Oscar Wilde's theatrical genius at its brilliant best. Subtitled "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People", this hilarious attack on Victorian manners and morals turns a pompous world on its head, lets duplicity lead to happiness, and makes riposte the highest form of art. Also included in this special collection are Wilde's first comedy success, Lady Windermere's Fan, and his richly sensual melodrama, Salome.
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Classic Tales of Detection and Adventure
Author: Edgar Allan PoeContaining one of the best known and best loved detective novels of all time - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - this entertaining collection of Poe's work shows why he was considered a master of mystery. Also included in the book is The Mystery of Marie Rogêt, which was a sequel to the thrilling Murders in the Rue Morgue, as well as three other tales of detection and adventure, including "Thou Art the Man!",…
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Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
Author: Agatha ChristieSeries: Hercule PoirotAt last, a single volume that gathers together all of the short stories featuring Agatha Christie's most famous creation, Hercule Poirot. The dapper, mustache-twirling little Belgian with the egg-shaped head and curious mannerisms has solved some of the most puzzling crimes of the century—and, in his own humble opinion, is "probably the greatest detective in the world." In this complete collection of more than 50 stories, ranging from short tales to novellas, Poirot faces violent…
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Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
Author: Agatha ChristieSeries: Miss MarpleThis collection gathers together every short story featuring one of Agatha Christie’s most famous creations: Miss Marple. Described by her friend Dolly Bantry as “the typical old maid of fiction,” Miss Marple has lived almost her entire life in the sleepy hamlet of St. Mary Mead. Yet, by observing village life she has gained an unparalleled insight into human nature—and used it to devastating effect. As her friend Sir Henry Clithering, the ex- Commissioner of…
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