Short Stories About Trickery & Deception: Tales of manipulation, broken promises and tests of faith

Written by Rudyard Kipling, Maxim Gorky, Edith Wharton and 14 more

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Mark Rice-Oxley and Warren Keyes

As a general rule we are a trusting lot. You say something and, whilst I might disagree, I believe you are acting in good faith. Of course this may be just the beginning of a ruse. If I trust you I might let down my guard, I might seek to share and to create a bond between us. But, if you can’t be trusted, if you have an ulterior motive I might lose out.

In the hands of authors such as Maxim Gorky, Ella D’Arcy, Rudyard Kipling, Ivan Turgenev and may others reality may not be what it quite seems.

1 - Short Stories About Trickery & Deception - An Introduction

2 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 1 by Rudyard Kipling

3 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling

4 - Chelkash - Part 1 by Maxim Gorky

5 - Chelkash - Part 2 by Maxim Gorky

6 - Chelkash - Part 3 by Maxim Gorky

7 - Souls Belated by Edith Wharton

8 - The She-Wolf by Saki

9 - Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet by O Henry

10 - The Wooing of Pastor Cummings by Georgia F Stewart

11 - Mrs Packletide's Tiger by Saki

12 - As the Crow Flies by John Davys Beresford

13 - The Rats in the Walls by H P Lovecraft

14 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev

15 - Irremediable by Ella D'Arcy

16 - The Connoisseur by Perceval Gibbon

17 - The Kiss by Kate Chopin

18 - The Hired Baby, A Romance of the London Streets by Mary Mackay writing as Marie Corelli

19 - The Open Window by Saki

20 - Revenge by Samuel Blas

21 - Cheating The Gallows by Israel Zangwill

22 - Putois by Anatole France

23 - Post Mortem by Barry Pain

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jun 6, 2023
• ISBN: 9781835479100

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author and poet who began writing in India and shortly found his work celebrated in England. An extravagantly popular, but critically polarizing, figure even in his own lifetime, the author wrote several books for adults and children that have become classics, Kim, The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, Captains Courageous and others. Although taken to task by some critics for his frequently imperialistic stance, the author’s best work rises above his era’s politics. Kipling refused offers of both knighthood and the position of Poet Laureate, but was the first English author to receive the Nobel prize.