Publisher's Synopsis
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a British author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his children's books, including The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895). Ella D'Arcy (1856-1939) was an author of novels and short stories of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Her works are associated with the "New" fiction of the fin-de-siecle, characterized by an attitude of changing social attitudes, and psychological realism. Arthur George Morrison (1863-1945) was an English author and journalist, known for his realistic novels. Morrison wrote detective short stories. Three volumes of Martin Hewitt stories were published before the publication of his most famous novel A Child of the Jago (1896). Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (1859-1930) was a Scottish author. He is most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays, poetry, and non-fiction. George Gissing (1857-1903) was an English novelist who wrote twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903. Although his early works are naturalistic, he developed into one of the most accomplished realists of the late-Victorian era. Contents include The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case by Rudyard Kipling, Irremediable by Ella D'Arcy, "A Poor Stick" by Arthur Morrison, The Adventure of the Abbey Grange by Arthur Conan Doyle and The Prize Lodger by George Gissing.
