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Books & documents
- 30 stories to remember (1962) — Costain, Thomas B. (Thomas Bertram), 1885-1965, ed, Beecroft, John, joint ed Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Exciting short stories (1960) — Unknown Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Classic adventure stories : twenty-one tales of people pushed to the limit (2003) — Unknown Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- More conflicts : 15 more masterpieces of struggle and conflict : with exercises to make you think (1993) — Goodman, Burton Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- The greatest survival stories ever told (2001) — Underwood, Lamar Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Great tales of action and adventure (1959) — Bennett, George, ed Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Read for your life : tales of survival from the editors of Read magazine (1998) — Unknown Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Ghastly, ghoulish, gripping tales (1983) — Unknown Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Anne Frank (Diary of Anne Frank / Excerpts from Anne Frank) (1989) — Frances Goodrich, Anne Frank Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Study Guide The Lucifer Effect by Philip G. Zimbardo (2019) — SuperSummary Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Menace and Adventure (2013) — Richard Connell, W. W. Jacobs, Jack London, Carl Stephenson, Saki, Ernest Hemingway, Ambrose Bierce, H. G. Wells Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Great tales of terror and the supernatural (1944) — Herbert A. Wise Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Great Tales of Action and Adventure (1959) — George Bennett, Robert S. Lemmon, Carl Stephenson, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Richard Connell, John Russell, Saki, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur C. Clarke, William Fryer Harvey, Jack London, C. E. Montague Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Exciting Short Stories (1960) — Greta A. Clark, Michael Francis Gilbert, Richard Connell, John D. MacDonald, Carl Stephenson, W. W. Jacobs, Day Keene, James M. Cain Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told (2001) — Lamar Underwood, Richard Connell Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror (1982) — Editors of Readers Digest, Arthur Conan Doyle, C. S. Forester, Shirley Jackson, Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Evelyn Waugh, Guy de Maupassant, John Russell, Algernon Blackwood, John Collier, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Truman Capote, Alfred Noyes, Montague Rhodes James, Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, Leslie Charteris, Lord Dunsany, Ellery Queen, Ambrose Bierce, Daphne du Maurier, Thomas Burke, Robert Barr, John Dickson Carr, André Maurois, Richard Middleton, H.P. Lovecraft, Cornell Woolrich, Gilbert Highet, Alfred McLelland Burrage, Ian Fleming, Gertrude Atherton, Carl Stephenson, W. W. Jacobs, George Hitchcock, William Hope Hodgson, Ross Macdonald, Rudyard Kipling, Georges Simenon, Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin, H. G. Wells, Erle Stanley Gardner, Saki, Arthur C. Clarke Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- 21 Great Stories (1969) — Abraham Harold Lass, Norma L. Tasman, abraham h.Lass, Ray Bradbury, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, James Joyce, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Read for your life (1998) — Catherine Gourley Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Classic adventure stories (2003) — Stephen Vincent Brennan Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- 21 essential American short stories (2011) — Leslie Pockell Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Ghastly, ghoulish, gripping tales (1983) — Helen Hoke Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- More conflicts (1993) — Burton Goodman, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
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