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Book Synopsis A Collection of Short Stories by : Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
Download or read book A Collection of Short Stories written by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol and published by . This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852) was a Russian writer of Ukrainian ethnicity and birth. Often called the father of modern Russian realism, he was one of the first Russian authors to criticize his country s way of life. Although his early works were heavily influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, he wrote in Russian and his works belong to the tradition of Russian literature. Gogol was one of the first masters of short prose, alongside Pushkin, Merimee, Hoffmann, and Hawthorne. The main and most persistent characteristic of Gogol s style is its verbal expressiveness. He wrote with a view not so much to the acoustic effect on the ears of the listener as to the sensuous effect on the vocal apparatus of the reciter. The other main characteristic of his genius is the extraordinary intensity and vividness of impressionist vision, sometimes skirting expressionism. The Dead Souls (1842), The Inspector-General and The Overcoat (1842) are among his masterpieces.
Book Synopsis Collected Short Stories (Dodo Press) by : Stanley G. Weinbaum
Download or read book Collected Short Stories (Dodo Press) written by Stanley G. Weinbaum and published by Dodo Press. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (also wrote as John Jessel and Marge Stanley) (1902-1935) was an American science fiction author. His career in science fiction was short but influential. His first story, A Martian Odyssey, was published to great acclaim in July 1934. Most of the work that was published in his lifetime appeared in either Astounding or Wonder Stories. However, several of Weinbaum's pieces first appeared in the early fanzine Fantasy Magazine in the 1930s. In 1993, his widow donated his papers to the Temple University Library in Pennsylvania. Included were several unpublished manuscripts, among them Three Who Danced, as well as other unpublished stories, mostly romance stories, but there were also a few other non-fiction and fiction writings. Amongst his other works are Parasite Planet (1935), The Adaptive Ultimate (1935), The Lotus Eaters (1935), The Brink of Infinity (1935), The Dawn of Flame (1936), The Circle of Zero (1936), Proteus Island (1936), The Mad Moon, Tidal Moon, Pygmalion's Spectacles and The Ideal.
Book Synopsis Stories Worth Rereading by : Varios Artistas
Download or read book Stories Worth Rereading written by Varios Artistas and published by . This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 72 stories for children, first published in 1913. "All persons like stories. Children call for them from their earliest years. The purpose of this book is to provide children and youth with stories worth reading; stories relating incidents of history, missionary effort, and home and school experiences. These stories will inspire, instruct, and entertain the readers. Nearly all of these have appeared in print before, and are reprinted in this form through the courteous permission of their writers and publishers."
Book Synopsis Short Story Writing by : Charles Raymond Barrett
Download or read book Short Story Writing written by Charles Raymond Barrett and published by Dodo Press. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Raymond Barrett (1874-? ) was an American author. His works include: Short Story Writing (1898), Getting a Good Job: A Practical Solution of the Problem of Fitting the Right Man to the Right Place (1917) and Business English: Instruction Paper (1917). He contributed pieces to many magazines of the day including: Miss Innocence (1918), New Names for Old (1918), The Adventure of the Missing Carfare (1920) and The Adventure of the Toy Balloon (1920).
Book Synopsis It and Other Stories by : Gouverneur Morris
Download or read book It and Other Stories written by Gouverneur Morris and published by . This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gouverneur Morris (1876-1953) was an American author of pulp novels and short stories during the early-twentieth century. Several of his works were adapted into films. He was the great-grandson of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816). His works include: Aladdin O'Brien (1902), The Pagan's Progress (1904), The Footprint (1908), The Spread Eagle and Other Stories (1910), We Three (1913), The Penalty (1913), If You Touch Them They Vanish (1913), The Incandescent Lily (1914), and Keeping the Peace (1924).
Book Synopsis Idle Hour Stories by : Eugenia Dunlap Potts
Download or read book Idle Hour Stories written by Eugenia Dunlap Potts and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugenia (nee) Dunlap Potts was the author of: The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky (1874), Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War (1909), Idle Hour Stories (1909), A Kentucky Girl in Dixie, Short Mountain Trail, Stories for Children, The Housekeepers' Olio, and Home Talks. It is some years since I was station-master, telegraph- operator, baggage-agent and ticket seller at a little village near some valuable oil wells. The station-house was a little distance from the unpretentious thoroughfare that had grown up in a day, and my duties were so arduous that I had scarcely leisure for a weekly flitting to a certain mansion on the hill where dwelt Ellen Morris, my promised wife. In fact, it was with the hope of lessening the distance between us that I had under taken these quadruple duties.
Book Synopsis The Extra Day by : Algernon Blackwood
Download or read book The Extra Day written by Algernon Blackwood and published by . This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Algernon Henry Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English writer of tales of the supernatural. In his late thirties, Blackwood started to write horror stories. He was very successful, writing ten books of short stories and appearing on both radio and television to tell them. He also wrote fourteen novels and a number of plays, most of which were produced but not published. He was an avid lover of nature, and many of his stories reflect this. Although Blackwood wrote a number of horror stories, his most typical work seeks less to frighten than to induce a sense of awe. Good examples are the novels The Centaur (1911), which climaxes with a traveller's sight of a herd of the mythical creatures; and Julius LeVallon (1916) and its sequel The Bright Messenger (1921), which deal with reincarnation and the possibility of a new, mystical evolution in human consciousness. His best stories, such as those collected in the book Incredible Adventures (1914), are masterpieces of atmosphere, construction and suggestion.
Book Synopsis Biography of a Book: Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils by : Paul Eggert
Download or read book Biography of a Book: Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils written by Paul Eggert and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of a Book traces the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and for a century after, its initial publication: Henry Lawson's 1896 collection While the Billy Boils. Paul Eggert follows Lawson's gradual development of a pared-back bush realism in the early 1890s, as he struggled to forge a career, writing short stories and sketches for the newspapers. Lawson's famous collection came out at a decisive moment for the development of a fully professional Australian literary publishing industry, then in its infancy in Sydney. The volume's editing, design and production were collaborative events that changed the feel and nature of Lawson's writing. He had to give ground on his texts and their sequencing. The collection went on to be reprinted and repackaged countless times. Its production and reception histories act like a geological cross-section, revealing the contours of successive cultural formations in Australia. In unravelling the life of Lawson's classic work Eggert's book-historical approach challenges and clarifies established understandings of crucial moments in Australian literary history and of Lawson himself
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story by : Ann-Marie Einhaus
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story written by Ann-Marie Einhaus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion provides an accessible overview of short fiction by writers from England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and other international sites. A collection of international experts examine the development of the short story in a variety of contexts from the early nineteenth century to the present. They consider how dramatic changes in the publishing landscape during this period - such as the rise of the fiction magazine and the emergence of new opportunities in online and electronic publishing - influenced the form, covering subgenres from detective fiction to flash fiction. Drawing on a wealth of critical scholarship to place the short story in the English literary tradition, this volume will be an invaluable guide for students of the short story in English.
Book Synopsis 147 Traditional Stories for Primary School Children to Retell. by : Chris Smith
Download or read book 147 Traditional Stories for Primary School Children to Retell. written by Chris Smith and published by Hawthorn Press. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories from oral traditions from a variety of historical, cultural and geographical sources, arranged by year group, fully indexed with an introduction explaining how to use the Collection.
Book Synopsis Last Words by : Juliana Horatia Ewing
Download or read book Last Words written by Juliana Horatia Ewing and published by . This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing, nee Gatty, (1841-1885) was a writer of children s stories, daughter of the Rev. Alfred Gatty and Margaret Gatty, also a writer for children. Among her tales, which have hardly been excelled in sympathetic insight into child-life, and still enjoy undiminished popularity, are: Mrs. Overtheway s Remembrances (1869), A Flat Iron for a Farthing (1873), Jan of the Windmill (1873), Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin s Dovecot and Other Stories (1879), We and the World (1881), Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales (1882) and The Story of a Short Life (1885).
Download or read book 1895 written by Nicholas Freeman and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Wilde's libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry and its disastrous repercussions dominated British newspapers during the spring of 1895, but as this innovative study reveals, the Wilde scandal was by no means the only event to capture the public's imagination. Freak weather, a flu epidemic, a General Election, industrial unrest, 'sex novels' and New Women, trials of murderers and fraudsters, accidents, anarchists, bombers, balloonists and bicyclists were all topics of interest and alarm. Drawing on strikingly diverse primary sources, Nicholas Freeman examines the recurrent preoccupations of a turbulent year, showing how 1890s' Britain is at once far removed from our own day and yet strangely familiar.
Book Synopsis Collected Stories (Dodo Press) by : Rafael Sabatini
Download or read book Collected Stories (Dodo Press) written by Rafael Sabatini and published by . This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rafael Sabatini (1875 - 1950) was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure. At a young age, Rafael was exposed to many languages. By the time he was seventeen, he was the master of five languages. He quickly added a sixth language - English - to his linguistic collection. After a brief stint in the business world, Sabatini went to work as a writer. He wrote short stories in the 1890s, and his first novel came out in 1902. Sabatini was a prolific writer; he produced a new book approximately every year. He consciously chose to write in his adopted language, because, he said, "all the best stories are written in English. " In all, he produced thirty one novels, eight short story collections, six nonfiction books, numerous uncollected short stories, and a play. He is best known for his world-wide bestsellers: The Sea Hawk (1915), Scaramouche (1921), Captain Blood (1922) and Bellarion the Fortunate (1926). Other famous works by Sabatini are The Lion's Skin (1911), The Strolling Saint (1913) and The Snare (1917).
Book Synopsis Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle by : S. Vanacker
Download or read book Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle written by S. Vanacker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherlock Holmes is an iconic figure within cultural narratives. More recently, Conan Doyle has also appeared as a fictional figure in contemporary novels and films, confusing the boundaries between fiction and reality. This collection investigates how Holmes and Doyle have gripped the public imagination to become central figures of modernity.
Book Synopsis The Book of Stories for the Story-Teller by : Fanny E. Coe
Download or read book The Book of Stories for the Story-Teller written by Fanny E. Coe and published by . This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fanny Eliza Coe was the author of: Our American Neighbours (with Larkin Dunton) (1891), Modern Europe (1898), The First Book of Stories for the Story-Teller (1910), Heroes of Everyday Life (1911), Founders of our Country (1912), The Second Book of Stories for the Story-Teller (1913), The Book of Stories for the Story-Teller (1914), Makers of the Nation (1914), Stories to Read and to Tell (1919) and The Red-Headed Woodpecker and The Golden Cobwebs (1938).
Book Synopsis G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity by : Matthew Beaumont
Download or read book G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity written by Matthew Beaumont and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. While Chesterton's work has often been valued for its wit and whimsy, this book argues that he is also a distinctive urban commentator, whose sophistication has been underappreciated in comparison to more canonical contemporaries. With chapters written by leading scholars in the field of 20th-century literature, the book also provides fresh readings and suggests new contexts for central texts such as The Man Who Was Thursday, The Napoleon of Notting Hill and the Father Brown stories. It also discusses lesser-known works, such as Manalive and The Club of Queer Trades, drawing out their significance for scholars interested in urban representation and practice in the first three decades of the 20th century.
Book Synopsis The Courage to See by : Greg Garrett
Download or read book The Courage to See written by Greg Garrett and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2019-09-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book lovers know there is something sacred in the stories, poetry, and insight of even the most secular books. This 365-day devotional celebrates the beauty of literature and its ability to illuminate elements of the Divine, present all around us. Pairing excerpts from more than two hundred literary works with thought-provoking Scriptures and brief prayers, this spiritual guide invites readers to draw closer to God through the words of both classic and modern authors.
