Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror) is a poetic novel (or a long prose poem) consisting of six cantos. It was written and published between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de Lautréamont, the pseudonym of the Uruguayan-born French writer Isidore-Lucien Ducasse. Many of the surrealists (Salvador Dalí, André Breton, Antonin Artaud, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Max Ernst, etc.) during the early 20th century cited the novel as a major inspiration to their own works. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

A collection of two novellas and three short stories, Ranson's Folly showcases Richard Harding Davis's masterful writing and storytelling skills. The title story was later dramatized by Davis and made into a movie; the collection also includes “The Bar Sinister, “A Derelict, “La Lettre D'Amour, and “In the Fog.