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Author : Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (734 download)
Download or read book The Closing Door, from The Rendezvous and Other Stories written by Daphne Du Maurier and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393344444
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book The Rendezvous and Other Stories written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995-11-17 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of startlingly vivid short stories from Patrick O'Brian, author of the highly acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series. Patrick O'Brian has emerged, in the opinion of many, as one of the greatest novelists in English. His fame rests mainly on the achievement of the epic Aubrey/Maturin novels, but few readers know that O'Brian first made his reputation as a writer of short fiction. Collected here are twenty-seven stories that O'Brian wished to preserve: stories of uncommon lyricism and beauty that will confirm his rightful place in the front rank of short-story writers as well as of novelists. Although the tone of this collection ranges effortlessly from the humorous to the dramatic, the most characteristic and memorable stories often have to do with a glimpse of savage, destructive forces through the fragile shell of human civilization. The threatened chaos may be psychological, as in "On the Wolfsberg," or it may be lurking in the natural world, as in "A Passage of the Frontier," or, as in the dark masterpiece "The Chian Wine," it is suddenly discovered in the ancient, irrational impulses of human nature. The setting may be the marshes of western Ireland, the Pyrenees, or the claustrophobic confines of a clockmender's house, but each story is a showcase for Patrick O'Brian's fresh and meticulous prose; each story reaffirms his sympathetic understanding of human passion and suffering. This collection proves that O'Brian is not simply the master of a genre, but an author who will long be honored as one of our most eminent literary figures.
Author : Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 1405518111
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)
Download or read book The Rendezvous And Other Stories written by Daphne Du Maurier and published by Virago. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA 'One of the last century's most original literary talents' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A magician, a virtuoso' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 'There is an intense and exhilarating fusion of feeling, landscape, climate, character and story' GUARDIAN 'Mary Farren went into the gun room one morning about half-past eleven, took her husband's revolver and loaded it, then shot herself. The butler heard the sound of the gun from the pantry ... ' The fourteen haunting stories in this collection span the whole of Daphne du Maurier's writing career and explore every human emotion: an apparently happily married woman commits suicide; a steamer in wartime is rescued by a mysterious sailing-ship; a dull husband breaks loose in a surprising fashion; a con woman plays her game once too often; and a famous novelist looks for romance, only to meet with bitter disappointment. Each meticulously observed tale shows du Maurier's mastery of the genre.
Author : Henry James
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199639876
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Aspern Papers and Other Stories written by Henry James and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As well as 'The Aspern Papers', this selection includes 'The Death of the Lion', 'The Figure in the Carpet', and 'The Birthplace'. All four stories concern the figure of the artist and the cult of celebrity. This new edition includes extracts from James's Prefaces and Notebooks that shed light on the genesis of the stories.
Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (Fitzgerald's Greatest Short Stories) written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (Fitzgerald's Greatest Short Stories)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Babylon Revisited and Other Stories is a collection of Fitzgerald's ten best-known short stories written between 1920 and 1937. The Stories are set in the year after the stock market crash of 1929, just after what Fitzgerald called the "Jazz Age". Brief flashbacks take place in the Jazz age itself. Also it shows several references to the depression, and how the character had to adapt his life to it. Much of it is based on the author's own experiences. The story Babylon Revisited is based on a true incident regarding Fitzgerald, his daughter "Scottie", his sister-in-law Rosalind and her husband Newman Smith, on whom Marion and Lincoln Peters are based. Rosalind and Newman had not been able financially to live as well as Scott and Zelda had lived during the 1920s, and they had always regarded Scott as an irresponsible drunkard whose obsession with high living was responsible for Zelda's mental problems. When Zelda suffered a breakdown and was committed to a sanitarium in Switzerland, Rosalind felt that Scott was unfit to raise their daughter and that Rosalind and Newman should adopt her. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 -1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. Table of Contents: The Ice Palace May Day The Diamond as Big as the Ritz Winter Dreams Absolution The Rich Boy The Freshest Boy Babylon Revisited Crazy Sunday The Long Way Out
Author : Pot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The pot of gold; and other stories. By the author of 'Four little people and their friends'. written by Pot and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Sand
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791484777
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book The Devil's Pool and Other Stories written by George Sand and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly translated into English, "The Devil's Pool" is the most popular of George Sand's novellas and her best-selling work in France today. Illustrating Sand's brevity, liveliness, and exemplary storytelling, the tale deals with many of her characteristic themes—the relations between the sexes, the plight of the underprivileged, and the role of fantasy in human life—making it an ideal introduction to her work. Also included are translations of two of Sand's most admired short stories, "Lavinia" and "The Unknown God," as well as various relevant essays and documents.
Author : Nick Carter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.P/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Steel Casket and Other Stories written by Nick Carter and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andries Walter Oliphant
Publisher : NB Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book At the Rendezvous of Victory and Other Stories written by Andries Walter Oliphant and published by NB Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a varied and interesting collection of some 30 stories by well-known and new writers - from Nadine Gordimer, Achmat Dangor and Etienne van Heerden to Johnny Masilela and Rayda Jacobs.'
Author : Setara Pracha
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666907189
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)
Download or read book The Pathology of Desire in Daphne du Maurier’s Short Stories written by Setara Pracha and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following a resurgence of interest in Daphne du Maurier’s writing, The Pathology of Desire in Daphne du Maurier’s Short Stories offers an overview of all her collections and a detailed reading of nine stories. These contain recurrent references to the incomplete or impaired human form and are best read through a corporeal lens. The criticism illustrates her importance as a cultural commentator fascinated by the results of frustrated human desire, and includes a synopsis of the published collections, and the stories within them, to give the reader a sense of the variety of the overarching themes and the persistent force of corporeality in the stories. Du Maurier is well-known as a novelist, but her short fiction is pivotal to understanding her position and influence as a writer. She rewrites fairytales and foregrounds female violence long before it became a cultural trend.
Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Bantam Classics
ISBN 13 : 0553214446
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (532 download)
Download or read book The Eternal Husband and Other Stories written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 2000-09-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky’s short masterpieces rendered into English by two of the most celebrated Dostoevsky translators of our time. Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to his great novels, these short works display the full range of Dostoevsky’s genius. The centerpiece of this collection, the short novel The Eternal Husband, describes the almost surreal meeting of a cuckolded widower and his dead wife’s lover. Dostoevsky’s dark brilliance and satiric vision infuse the other four tales with all-too-human characters, including a government official who shows up uninvited at an underling’s wedding to prove his humanity; a self-deceiving narrator who struggles futilely to understand his wife’s suicide; and a hack writer who attends a funeral and ends up talking with the dead. The Eternal Husband and Other Stories is sterling Dostoevsky—a collection of emotional power and uncompromising insight into the human condition.
Author : Cooper J.F.
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5521079726
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Spy + The Lake Gun and other Stories written by Cooper J.F. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. This volume contains Cooper’s novel and some of his short stories. "The Spy" was Cooper's second novel, published in 1821. The action takes place during the American Revolution. Garvey Birch is a modest American who pretends to be a regular peddler, but in fact collecting military information for the Continental Army in territory controlled by British army. "The Lake Gun" is a satirical short story named after the mysterious loud exploding sound coming from Seneca Lake, called The Lake Gun by European American settlers to the area, and known today as the Seneca Guns. These sounds remain unexplained to this day, with no clear or agreed-upon cause.
Author : L.T. Meade
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 146040226X
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Sorceress of the Strand and Other Stories written by L.T. Meade and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Diamond Cut Diamond, a Story of Tuscan Life and Other Stories written by Thomas Adolphus Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colette
Publisher : New York : Farrar Straus & Cudahy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Tender Shoot, and Other Stories written by Colette and published by New York : Farrar Straus & Cudahy. This book was released on 1959 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven stories show the various difficulties and pleasures of the sensual life. Colette defines an extraordinary range of men and women, children, the weather, the smells of the street, animals, the taste of food, and places where she once lived.
Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Our hearts, The Lancer's wife, and other stories written by Guy de Maupassant and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Greg Hrbek
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803237790
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Destroy All Monsters, and Other Stories written by Greg Hrbek and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Greg Hrbek’s Destroy All Monsters, and Other Stories is a collection that explores what it means to be human—and inhuman. These ten stories have won an array of honors—and whether set in the historical past or in a speculative future, each is wildly imaginative and shockingly real. In “Sagittarius,” selected for The Best American Short Stories, a mother and father search a dark forest for their missing newborn, who is either a child with profound birth defects or a miraculous creature. In “False Positive,” a ghostly girl visits her biological father ten years after being aborted in utero. In “Bereavement,” a marriage is falling apart following a child’s accidental death, but a combination of myth and technology provides hope for a second life. Fantastic, horrific, painfully familiar, these stories are the work of a consummate storyteller.
