Etiqueta: Jorge Ordaz

From Wilkie Collins, the master of suspenseful plot twists, comes a captivating tale set in the freezing waters of the Arctic Ocean. The night before he is supposed to leave on an expedition to find the Northwest Passage, Frank Aldersley proposes to Clara Burnham. She accepts and rejects another suitor, Richard Wardour, who, in his […]

Originally published in two parts in the Atlantic Monthly in 1872, this story is one of Henry James’s early writings and tells the tale of David, his stepbrother Edgar, and John Guest, a stockbroker. Edgar accuses Guest of stealing $20,000 from him and forces him to confess in writing. At the same time, David realizes […]

Protagonist Rudy Messer, like so many of his 1930s New York contemporaries, is concerned primarily with knowing the right people, wearing the right clothes, and making as much money as possible. A chance meeting with Jewish socialist Izzi Bloch at a demonstration in favor of the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War, however, shakes […]

Molly Bowser is a thirty-five-year-old woman with a questionable reputation who has led a miserable life marked by an unhappy childhood. Now a widow, she has resigned herself to the fact that her possibilities for remarrying are all but nonexistent. So instead of focusing on whatever last hope she might have for herself, Molly decides […]