I’m pleased to share that Fish O’Baby’s Great Tales will soon feature a new collection of short fiction by Alfred Edgar Coppard, one of the most distinctive and quietly innovative British writers of the early twentieth century. Over the coming weeks, I’ll be posting complete, readable editions of several of Coppard’s stories, many of which […]
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I’m pleased to share that Great Tales will soon feature a growing collection of stories by Mary Elizabeth Braddon—one of the most fascinating and influential British writers of the nineteenth century, and a key figure in what we now call sensation fiction. Beginning this week, I will be posting complete, readable editions of several of
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The late 19th and early 20th centuries were an era of profound transformation. Industrial expansion, urbanization, and the rise of new scientific and philosophical ideas reshaped Western life. Yet, amid these advances, women remained confined by the moral strictures of the Victorian Age, expected to embody the ideal of the “Angel in the House”—pure, submissive,
The 19th century was a crucible of literary innovation. The novel, journalism, and serialized fiction were expanding in scope and readership, while poetry was grappling with Romanticism’s fading idealism and the rise of realism. Amid these transformations, one form emerged with startling vitality: the short story. Once relegated to oral traditions, parables, and moral sketches,
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UPDATE : We’ve just added Poe’s three detective stories The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, and The Purloined Letter The 19th century was an age obsessed with secrets—the shadowy alleys of London, the locked rooms of the wealthy, and the perplexing nature of crime. Yet, for all its lurking mystery,
When we think of 19th- and early 20th-century fiction, familiar names leap to mind—Dickens, Henry James, Edith Wharton. These writers occupy the luminous center of the literary canon, their works still read and studied for their insight into society, psychology, and art. Yet beyond these well-lit giants lies a shadowy borderland of talent—writers who once
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